The Inuit language and Ubuntu
Antoine Cottin
antoine.cottin at ete.inrs.ca
Tue May 3 15:36:01 UTC 2005
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Corey Burger wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Currently, there is not much support for Inuktitut in any computer
> software. Thus it occured to me that we should remedy this. The
> plan has several facets, some of which are very ambitious.
>
> So here is where we need to go for this to work:
>
> 1. Determine what is already translated and get as much of that
> into Ubuntu as we can. This google search might be a good start:
> http://www.google.ca/search?q=Inuktitut+linux 2. Identify key
> people to help us move forward. This would be mostly university
> people and other translators working in this space. 3. Acquire
> funding to further translation work, with the goal of 100%
> translation. This should primarily from the federal gov. 4. Work
> with Nunavut and NWT local charities to place computers in small
> communities and provide some training. 5. Set up a framework to
> allow the maintenance translation work to continue.
>
> All of this will work within the framework of Ubuntu, without
> really needed to create a deriv.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Corey
>
We have to meet on the IRC to determine who do what ? or can do what ?
we need a plan.
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Antoine COTTIN
INRS-ETE
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Québec, Qc
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