1. Development in the areas of L10N Feel The Freedom of Fedora! Ankit Patel ankit@fedoraproject.org Community s/w Developer Language Maintainer (Gujarati) – Red Hat

2. Agenda ● What is L10N ? ● Why L10N ? ● What is currently available within L10N ? ● What's remaining to develop ? ● Community Invitation ● Reference

3. What is L10N ? ● Localization is one half of the Globalization process. (Other half is the I18N) ● Localization involves the adaptation of products for a specific region. ● In our case, through translation of software and manuals. ● Localization is real communication.

4. Why L10N ? ● To make available of the power of computers to every region & every corner of the world. ● The main aim is to remove the language barrier and reduce the digital divide. ● The initiative towards reaching benefits of Information Technology to every corner of our society !

5. What's currently available in L10N? ● Localized desktop, applications, manuals and even some websites. ● Fonts, Input methods, etc. ● The basic functionality for a localized product is already there. ● We already have a large number of local language computing teams involved. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/015jan06/featur es/rhindia/

6. What's remaining to develop? ● KLC (Keyboard Layout Creator) ● SLOF (Switch Locale On the Fly) ● On screen Keyboard ● Your suggestions ?

7. Keyboard Layout Creator (KLC)

8. Switch Locale On the Fly (SLOF)

9. On Screen Keyboard (OSK)

10. Community Invitation ● Participate in the L10N efforts within the Linux and Fedora. ● If you contribute or if you have ideas on improving the state of L10N now is your chance to let us know. ● Join the appropriate project mailing lists or just talk to me!

11. References ● www.indianoss.org ● www.fedoraproject.org ● https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/i ndianoss-gujarati ● http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fe dora-trans-list ● irc.freenode.net (#indianoss, #fedora- extras, #fedora-l10n, #fedora-i18n, #fedora-india)

12. Questions ? Thank You !