Hi Friends,

You may have seen the press release of canonical announcing support for 10 Indian languages http://www.andhrabuzz.com/viewnews.php?newsid=ubuntu_operating_system_now_in... I am glad to report the release of Ubuntu User Guide(e-book) in Telugu with content from Telugu wikibooks.

Content from wikibooks* *was imported using* Open document format* import feature of print/export feature and the layout was done using Libreoffice 3.3. Having the source content in Wikibooks makes the content searchable on internet and the e-book serves to access the content in a book form.. You can see my blog post in Telugu with links to e-book and screenshots.

http://teluginux.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html Telugu wikibook root page:* http://tinyurl.com/3ff2wf8*

I feel the popularity of Wikipedia in local languages will be closely to tied to use of computer in native language. I would like to see efforts from other language Wikipedians and FOSS enthusiasts and would be interested in collaborative efforts in this direction.

Cheers Arjun