Maithili Fedora and Associated Softwares

— Rajesh Ranjan

Maithili Computer – A Dream

Maithili, also a name of Sita,is

the Language of Love!the Language of the folk!

the Language of Vidyapati!the Language of Nagarjun!

butwas NOT the Language of Computer !?

We Dream!

We Dream

To Create Our OwnMaithili Computer

andthe world of Open Source community helped Us!

helped our Maithili Community!to

achieve our Goal!achieve our Dream!

We Plan

We plannedto

Work on Various Projects!like

Operating System, Browser, Desktop Environment, IM, SpellCheker, Glossary etc!

We Worked hard!

Maithili Fedora

• Fedora is a general purpose collection of software including an operating system based on the Linux kernel.

• We worked on making Fedora available in Maithili. We added Locale 'mai'. We worked on several technical issues with open source community. We translated softwares. Fedora 13 is also available in Maithili though we first released Fedora 11 as well.

Source: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/l/mai/collection/c/fedora/r/fedora-13

Maithili GNOME

• GNOME is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system—composed entirely of free and open source software.

• We worked on GNOME Desktop Environment for Maithili. For more work related info pl see here:

http://l10n.gnome.org/teams/mai

Maithili KDE

• KDE is a free software project, a cross-platform desktop environment designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems.

• KDE Maithili’s status is much more than languages like Bengali, Malayalam etc. For more work related info pl see here: http://i18n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=mai

Maithili FUEL

• FUEL is a project that helps languages in solving the Problem of Inconsistency and standardization in Computer Software Translation.

• Maithili was not having any basic glossary so the problem can be acute. So we joined the FUEL project and created and validated translation of FUEL entries.

• For More Info:

https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/wiki/fuel-maithili

FUEL Maithili Meet atA.N.Sinha Institute of Social Science, Patna

Maithili Firefox

• Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser. It is the most used browser independent of any one operating system.

• As a browser, Firefox is becoming more and more important and as desktop is shrinking to browser, it is much more important to have a great browser in Maithili. Though we have already one browser ‘Konqueror’ in Maithili, so we decided to localize Firefox in Maithili. A secure, fast and reliable browser in Maithili.

• To Download Firefox Maithili, please visit here by searching ‘mai’:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2-l10n

Maithili Hunspell

• Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer designed for languages with rich morphology and complex word compounding or character encoding. Now it is available in Maithili as well.

• At present it is having 48921 words in it. Can be downloaded from here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/dict-mai

Maithili Pidgin/Chatzilla

• Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client that has support for many commonly used instant messaging protocols. Translation available in Maithili. Can be found from the bug: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12579

• ChatZilla is a clean, easy to use and highly extensible IRC client, built on the Mozilla platform. Maithili Chatzilla is here: http://bhashaghar.googlecode.com/files/Chatzilla_Maithili.zip

Maithili Computer : Future

• Now updating of existing software is a challenge. Huge work done as of today. Huge task ahead to update them from time to time. We hope to do well in this front as well.

• OpenOffice.Org is an office suit and we target it to translate in Maithili as well. We have put our request to set up environment to translate it into Maithili. Hope to start soon.

• We think to increase the size of spellchecker. We plan to conduct translation review meetings etc to make the existing softwares more usable.

Computer in MaithiliA Journey through Screenshots

Fedora Installation

Fedora Maithili

GNOME Desktop

KDE Desktop

Konqueror Browser

Fedora Maithili

Firefox Maithili

Firefox Maithili

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