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diff --git a/blends/boss.da.po b/blends/boss.da.po new file mode 100644 index 0000000..199d88e --- /dev/null +++ b/blends/boss.da.po @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +# 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e2f6a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/blends/it-at-school.da.po @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +# 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 "" |