On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Jessie Wild
<jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to
get a high-quality, Indic
version available for mass-distribution. But while the full,
all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop, there
are
bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we
can start at least
pushing
some information out. For example, if we focus on
"Geography" first, we
could perhaps get a really good "Geography" package set-up and ready to
go
by the next pilot, in order to at least get a
package out there -
something
to have a presence within the distributions. The
storage space on the
Aakash
tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so
a limited content
package
is actually fine, in many ways.
The version of Android available on the tablet could be a hindrance to
display/render/input of Indic.
Samsung Ace and few other models of smart phones are able to render most
spoken
Indic languages. Hopefully, other vendors will also start to support
indic soon and Akash tablet will have enough computing power to deal with
indic while supporting all other functionality.
Cheers
Arjuna Rao Chavala