As we started progressing translation, we decided to apply for government funding. Tamil Virtual University was funding few language computing projects. So we decided to approach them and get the funding. We drafted proper proposal and how to commercialize etc and approached TVU.
TamilPC Trust:
After couple of meetings with officials we got 1.25 lakhs fund from TVU for this project. We formed Tami PC trust and decided to deposit the money on behalf of tamil PC truns. For all team members localization project is not a full time project so we decided to hire some one who can help full time in this project. Hariram Aethrya from Sun micro systems joined with us to help us. He was a software engineer at Sun Microsystems and worked in Bayarea, california before. At present he is running his own "Vedic School" at Kumbakonam.
New member to the team:
New member to the team:
We decided spend the money for paying salary(I will not say that it is salary... for his experience and accomplishment he might have got 10 times more than what we offered) and rent a computer for linux translation.
Same time Vaseegaran (KDE Maintainer gave his access for us to check in our Localization effort). For GNOME i got CVS access to check in files, translation was in full swing. We cracked the unknowns like OO compilation, Kernal compilation etc. But the translation was progressing very slow.
Then I decided to get Students force to complete the work.
My Experience Continues....
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