Interview with BharateeyaOO.o: OpenOffice.org for India
I’m in Israel for work this week, so I won’t be able to keep my usual schedule of posting here at SolidOffice. However, bandwidth is good and most of the internet’s activity is unconstrained by physical-world geography.
The OpenOffice.org project publishes an interview with BharateeyaOO.o, the team responsible for OOo development in India, and translation into numerous Indian languages.
RKVS Raman, head of BharateeyaOO.o, describes the project’s history, milestones, community development, and future goals in this interview. His team has already translated OpenOffice into 15 of India’s 22 official languages, and is scheduled to complete the remainder by December 2007.
Raman’s organization is pragmatic and effective in its work, and also strives toward a very idealistic purpose: “Long term goals involve studying the cultural aspects of Indic computing; create sturdy speech recognition engines for Indian languages; continuously create/explore avenues for wide adoption of FOSS in various sectors by active promotion and support, and to become an instrument in the proliferation of ICT in rural and underprivileged areas.”