GNOME India - Let's extend the footprint
Customising GNOME for India
Less than 10% of the Indian population knows English, and even fewer know how to read/write in it. In such
a scenario, if we truly want to bring computing to the masses, the only way to do it is to enable computing in Indian
languages. GNOME helps us achieve that, by enabling volunteer teams to customise the desktop to suit the
native cultural habits of local people. Not only are the user interfaces presented in the local language, but also,
specific culture and region dependant items like currency symbols, dates formats, names of the days of the week
etc are customisable in GNOME.
Information on the various teams working on adapting GNOME to their own cultures is available at the GNOME Translation
Project website.
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Bengali
Bengali (or Bangla) is spoken in both India and Bangladesh. Information about the team of volunteers working on Bengali GNOME is available at the Bengalinux website.
Panjabi
Panjabi (or Punjabi) is spoken in both India and Pakistan. Information about the team of volunteers working on Punjabi GNOME is available at the Punabi Linux website.
Hindi
Hindi is spoken in a large area of north and central India. Information about the team of volunteers working on Hindi GNOME is available at the Indlinux website.
Malayalam
Malayalam is the major language of the south Indian state of Kerala. Information about the team of volunteers working on Malayalam GNOME is available at the Swathantra Malayalam Computing website.
