Inuktitut ubuntu

[Corey Burger]

On 5/25/05, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at geek-girls.ca> wrote:
> Quoting Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Cool, so we have a font. Can we find out the licence for it, and if
> > possible, get it as part of the default install in Breezy?
> >
> > After we have that, we can start the job of finding translators.
> >
> > Corey
> 
> My /guess/ is that the font is Public Domain.
> 
> For those who didn't figure it out, "police" is French for font...
> 
> The impression I got from the forwarded French email was that Carole took some
> offence to the idea that we were trying to create an OS for "old computers" -
> hence her comment that "we have up-to-date computers which may have English
> OS's but on which you can write in Inuktituk."
> 
> If the group wants to come up with a message that gets across the idea that
> we're not just creating an OS for old gear but a powerful, Free,
> fully-localized OS, I'd be glad to help translate it to go back to this Carole
> person.
> 
> -Leigh
> 

Greeting Leigh, I have never seen you here or on the channel before.

Ubuntu, which means "Humanity to others" in Zulu, is a modern and
powerful Linux-based Operating System, designed for all types of
computers. Ubuntu is built upon free and open source software, which
allows the user to change and redistrbute the software freely. It is
being used and developed by people in all parts of the world. One of
the major advantages of Ubuntu is that it can be adapted to fit almost
any computer, whether new or from 5 years ago.

The Ubuntu-Canada project is comprised of people who use and develop
Ubuntu in Canada. We have undertaken the goal of providing Ubuntu, the
operation system and all the applications that run on it, completely
in Inuktitut.

As a first step, we need to find a font for Inuktitut that we can
freely redistribute with all of Ubuntu, not just in Canada.

Regards,

(Insert name here)