Re: Tamil wiki support

Hi Eric,

Currently I have put forward the question of how to define free as in
freedom and related matters (well almost the whole of what the GPL and
GFDL covers and issues like GNU philosophy and modern challenges faced
by translating modern technologies that have beliefs in age old human
nature... etc) to the most central Tamil scholarly forum.
Except for their adamant opposition to yet another encoding (UTF-8)
there have been some unexpectantly positived results.
Almost the whole legalese translation nightmare seems to have been
handled by reusing terms that have always been there and widely used in
Tamil literature that deals with freedoms and liberties. 

In this light I would like to contact the below mention organisation and
let them know of this forum [Taml-Ulagam Yahoo group]  if they are
already not there...

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:17, Eric Kow wrote:
> Hi Ramanan,
> 
> The Asian Open Source 
The above forum/group had defined Open Source also in such an effective
way I believe it really caputres the technical nature pertaining to
software development model better than any language's definiton I know
of so far.

I believe Wikipedia is about our free attitude to commodities in the
electronic era the only featrue that sets apart free sofware from Open
Source software.
...

> Centre in Malaysia has a Tamil wiki
> (http://www.asiaosc.org/tainwiki/). 

So having browsed through this resource I am convinced one needs to ask
them to use the word free more.

>  Perhaps the staff, users and
> contributors of that wiki would be more attuned to these matters and
> would provide some useful input.
Yes. Thanks. I have sent mail instead of just editing the Wiki.

Best regards,

Ramanan

> 
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 22:35:13 +0000, Ramanan Selvaratnam rama-at-ukfsn.org |Wikipedia| wrote:
> > An urgent request regading hugely misleading info on LanguageTa.php
> > remains unattended to.
> > 
> > I understand the huge technical problems and holiday season did not help
> > anyone attend to problems.

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