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authorJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2016-01-26 10:11:02 +0100
committerJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2016-01-26 10:11:02 +0100
commitce8a6c87eaa9f6e67108c995ecba05c7231e3d5f (patch)
tree95923108f9323ed91a3eee7bf681f2474117258d /blends
parent51123fbb5bb7489d67adf12cfd38d8607c487f79 (diff)
updated PO files
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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
+# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-01-26 10:11+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#. type: Title #
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "BOSS - Barath Operating System Solutions"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "[[!meta date=\"2016-01-26\"]]\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "[[!tag debian blog]]\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Siri and I are on a journey through India and Nepal, with the aim of "
+"learning about needs of Debian derivatives, to improve Debian and encourage "
+"closer integration."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "C-DAC and BOSS"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ([C-DAC][]) is a large "
+"organization serving country- and state-level institutions in India, with "
+"offices and training facilities several major cities. In Chennai, C-DAC has "
+"a staff of 25 developers working full time on Barath Operating System "
+"Solutions ([BOSS][])."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"BOSS is a Debian derivative with several flavors - a desktop for use at "
+"primary schools (EduBOSS), a desktop for governmental offices (BOSS), and a "
+"range of server-oriented use cases using same core as the desktops with "
+"various (non-packaged) code and configuration on top."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"The core common to all BOSS flavors is a derivative of Debian. Major work "
+"has been in strengthening localization and related code - including the "
+"development of a font covering all officially supported indic scripts, "
+"tuning input methods configuration, and bugfixing LibreOffice handling of "
+"complex scripts. All that work is all passed directly to upstream code "
+"projects (some still show as derived work until sifting down again into "
+"Debian)."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Besides locale derivations, BOSS currently includes 11 packages not yet in "
+"Debian - a mixture of package dependencies, branding data and configuration "
+"tweaks. Seems most if not all can fit into Debian with a bit of "
+"restructuring work."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+"[C-DAC]: <http://cdac.in/>\n"
+" \"Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)\"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+"[BOSS]: <http://bosslinux.in/>\n"
+" \"Barath Operating System Solution (BOSS)\"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+"[blend]: <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology>\n"
+" \"Debian Pure Blend - subset of Debian configured for a target group\"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "business..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "small computers"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"As some of you know, I always had a special interest in low-resource (yet "
+"general purpose) computers (partly driven by my lack of money to spend on "
+"shinier hardware), and since ~2009 particularly in ARM-based computers."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"After 4 days of meetings and discussion with C-DAC, - literally few minutes "
+"before departure - I casually mentioned my interest in small computers, and "
+"much to my surprise it turned out that C-DAC also works on that, just didn't "
+"get around to mention it yet at the Debian wiki page."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"C-DAC have worked for a year on tuning BOSS to work on the Vidyut laptop "
+"(successor to the Aakash tablet). All except builtin camera is allegedly "
+"working."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"C-DAC is also looking into Olimex boards - my favorites - possibly for use "
+"with small server setups..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"...but our time was up, we had to leave for our train to Pune, so details on "
+"that we will have to figure out through mail."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "collaboration"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"In the past, C-DAC have kept in touch with their users through BOSS-specific "
+"places like a dedicated IRC channel. Recent changes in management style at "
+"the development office have caused less attention available to that "
+"communication, however."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"C-DAC have politely offered their code changes upstram for years, but maybe "
+"\"too polite\": Maybe they have offered only polished fixes, being less loud "
+"about \"interesting problems\"."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"I suggested, as way to improve while limiting (ideally avoiding) extra work, "
+"is to mentally take a step up the stream: Treat BOSS not as a derivative but "
+"a subset of Debian itself, hang out and discuss issues and ideas at debian "
+"irc channels, and maintain your packages directly in Debian."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Only parts unfit for Debian - secret stuff done for India military, and "
+"dirty configuration hacks not yet possible within Debian Policy - really "
+"need to be kept away from Debian."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid "C-DAC agreed, and Debian now has a BOSS team!"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Anyone interested to follow BOSS as a Debian blend, and perhaps even "
+"contribute with opinions and/or code, is quite welcome to join the newly "
+"created mailinglist on Debian Alioth: "
+"<https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/boss-devel>."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Our meetings with BOSS developers have been very pleasant. Even those "
+"working at the top of cloud or big data stacks - furthest away from our "
+"mindset of tightly \"locking down\" all parts as packages - were patient "
+"with us."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Thanks in particular to Prema S and Prathibha B, working on packaging of "
+"BOSS for the past 5+ years, and both likely to enter the Debian New "
+"Maintainer Queue before long :-)"
+msgstr ""
diff --git a/blends/it-at-school.da.po b/blends/it-at-school.da.po
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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
+# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2016-01-26 10:11+0100\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: \n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#. type: Title #
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "IT@school"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "[[!meta date=\"2016-01-21\"]]\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "[[!tag debian blog]]\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Siri and I are on a journey through India and Nepal, with the aim of "
+"learning about needs of Debian derivatives, to improve Debian and encourage "
+"closer integration."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Distribution"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"IT@school is a distribution originally based on Debian, later rebased on "
+"Ubuntu."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Next release will possibly again be a direct derivative of Debian, or maybe "
+"even - time will tell - a [Debian pure blend][blend]."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+"[blend]: <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology>\n"
+" \"Debian Pure Blend - subset of Debian configured for a target group\"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Aim is education"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"As its name indicates, IT@school is targeted at schools: The system is used "
+"in 8th - 10th grades of most (or all?) public primary schools in Kerala,"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Together with [KEK][] members Anto and Fayad, Siri and I met with former and "
+"current key participants in the project where we learned about its history "
+"and current status, and discussed some differences between Ubuntu and "
+"Debian."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"IT@school has a strong emphasis on the educational aspect, arguably setting "
+"it apart from Skolelinux/DebianEdu which emphasizes the technical aspect of "
+"relieving teachers from admin tasks. In the early years of deployment the "
+"project faced many hardware issues - e.g. in getting sound cards to work. "
+"This was seen not as problems but as beneficial learning for the teachers "
+"facing those issues."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Kerala public school system has set the standard for other states in India, "
+"but sadly political support within the state has been weak in recent years. "
+"It is hoped that next election - this April - will bring a positive change."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+"[KEK]: <http://kek.org.in/>\n"
+" \"Hackerspace KEK - കോവളം എഴുത്തു കളരി (Kovalam Ezhuthu Kalari)\"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "School book"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"IT@school is accompagnied by a school book written specifically for use of "
+"the included tools."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"No explicit license is applied to the book (which means it defaults to "
+"classic copyright). Possibly it will get Creative Commons licensed."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"If the school book gets a DFSG-free license, several collaboration "
+"opportunities emerge:"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Currently the book is drafted in LibreOffice but then - due to state "
+"procedures - finalized with PageMaker. Would be interesting to setup an "
+"alternate process using only Free tools - either with Scribus or XeLaTeX. "
+"An important detail here is to ensure that the process supports malayalam "
+"script."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Curriculum"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Work is in progress mapping FLOSS tools to the state curriculum. I "
+"recommended to share that work publicly with a Free license, to encourage "
+"comparisons across countries, and invite collaboration e.g. with "
+"Skolelunux/DebianEdu."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Blend for SBCs"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"Some Kerala higher education schools (sorry, don't remember which) have "
+"bought some thousands of RaspberryPi2. I suggested to create a Debian Blend "
+"for SBCs (Single Board Computers) - we will see what comes of that idea..."
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Title ##
+#, no-wrap
+msgid "Blend for education"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Plain text
+msgid ""
+"I also suggested to make a Debian blend around IT@school distribution "
+"itself, with its strong focus on educational content - i.e. not just as "
+"addon to technical tools but the primary purpose pulling in tools as needed."
+msgstr ""