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Linux-Announce Digest #12
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Sat Jan 15 16:13:06 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #12, Volume #5 Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:13:03 EST
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FLOSS into the Mayan languages... and a LatAm distro based on Gentoo ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:07:53 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FLOSS into the Mayan languages... and a LatAm distro based on Gentoo
Ola, here's some news from Latin America...
Julio Cesar Gonzalez of LUGUSAC <juliocgc@fisica.usac.edu.gt> writes in to
say that they have got "organized as a Linux Users Group, currently
pursuing to be a Technological Foundation. The mail list is open and can
be reached at: http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/lugusac and our site
is at http://www.lug-usac.org
Says Julio: "We are the forge of several projects, maybe the most
interesting 'Proyecto Luciernaga', on translating FLOSS into mayan
languages, (see it at http://luciernaga.berlios.de ) and "Proyecto
Mayix", the very first Central American distribution based on Gentoo --
http://www.mayix.net "
In the first half of 2005, this team expects to partner the
creation of a GNU/Linux Users Group in the west highlands
(Quetzaltenango, native name Xelaju), their site will be at
http://xelalug.linuxserver.at/
Says Julio, whose based in Gautemala: "In Central America the major
interest on FLOSS is here in my country (Guatemala) and in El Salvador.
Some LUGs in Belize and Honduras." He, together with several friends,
formed a GNU/LUG at their university three years ago.
Their Mayan language project incidentally is an inter-institutional
project, also involving groups such as the "Fundacion Rigoberta
Menchu Tum" (Nobel Peace Price, 1992) and "Academia de Lenguas Mayas de
Guatemala" (national autority for mayan languages)."
According to Julio, they're currently working on the translation of
OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1 into the Mayan language k'iche'. He adds
optimistically: "After that, we'll produce the OpenOffice.org suite in all
the major Mayan languages, a web browser and, eventually, a Live-CD
with a Mayan-languages GNU/Linux distribution."
We wish these big and ambitious plans all the very best. If you could
support in any way, get in touch with Julio Cesar Gonzalez Cordon
<juliocgc@fisica.usac.edu.gt> who says: "It's exciting to share, to learn,
and to build another world with you!".
FN
Related URL: Fisired (http://fisica.usac.edu.gt)
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http://fn.swiki.net http://fn-floss.notlong.com
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