[Hamara-devel] Mission and Vision statement of hamaralinux.org ?

[shirish]

Hi all,

Here's the modified version :-

We are in the process of building an general-purpose distribution for 
all using Debian as a base and hence would be a Debian-Derivative.

Target Audience -

The distribution is targeted towards Indian users as apart from 
English-speaking users (which are less than 5%) you have 95% people who 
speak about 150 odd languages in the country. While we do not have the 
resources to serve all the 150 odd languages at one go, we do hope to at 
least change the scenario of the top 5 Indian languages by numbers as 
far as language computing is concerned. Localization is and would figure 
prominently across our web presence wherever possible (certainly our 
websites) as well as improve localization in all the software's we 
package and deploy as well.

There is also quite a large collection of softwares for people studying 
in specialized verticals such as finance, banking, Medicine, Engineering 
(Mechanical, Industrial you name it), humanities, arts the list just 
goes on and on which is not packaged for Debian. We will package them, 
document a bit of how they work and hope to have a community to drive 
knowledge in all these verticals and more so we have a broad range of 
users and developers who use FOSS and share the expertise, understanding 
in their communities.

We also are looking to change the scenario where hosting, network 
infrastructure is done outside India to within India. This would be a 
better strategy then relying on American or European data-centres where 
a change in global politics may trigger non-access to those centres 
among other factors. One of the benefits would be that the networking 
infrastructure would be better and it would be possible to have higher 
bandwidths to all stakeholders at a low incremental cost as well which 
would benefit businesses as well as users alike. Almost all businesses, 
entertainment will get a revolutionary shift.

One of our tasks is to maintain communication with the various upstreams 
and see where they are going and help out if necessary or even possible.

We are also want to help out developers. There are something like 15+ 
odd computer languages in Debian which is a drop when we see that there 
are something like 300+ odd computer languages out there so we would use 
the resources to improve utilities and add-ons to those 15 as well as 
add more languages depending on needs of our stakeholders .

Apart from all this, we also want to support small and medium businesses 
using the same distribution.

Apart from the above, we are also interested in encouraging DIY 
electronics to enable things like rural access / access to computers for 
greater numbers at lower cost in thousands of small towns and villages 
spread all over India and then subsequently neighbouring countries as well.

@Vikas - please let me know if you still spot any typos in there or if 
you think it needs improvement in some place still ?

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org