There is some serious translation happening at:

http://translate.sampada.net

Volunteers interested in taking part, can head straight to the above page and start translating and adding suggestions.

Kannada Localization project needs volunteers to digitize Kannada words from a book to be put in Public Domain.

Those who're interested, can write to webmaster AT sampada.net for more information and for information on how to take part in the project.

Members registered on Kannada Localization Initiative have been auto-added to the translators mailing list that was setup recently. Please feel free to un-subscribe from the list if you wish not to receive updates about ongoing translations.

Mailing list Information:
http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/translators

Un-subscribe link:
http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/options/translators

Volunteers who wish to help out in translation can now sign up on

Sampada Translators mailing list and start interacting.

Presently, we are building an on-line collaborative translation tool over Drupal. Those who are interested in participating can put a message across on the above list to hook up.

List of mailing lists on Sampada initiative: http://www.sampada.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/

Red Hat is looking for a "Language Maintainer" for Kannada. The position will be based out of Red Hat Software Services in Pune. Responsibilites:

• Translates, develops, and edits content for software localization, paper, multimedia or web-based publications. Translates message catalogs into native language for both Red Hat and selected Open Source software.
• Translates manuals and other print media and web content that form part of Red Hat's products and services. Participates in software quality assurance activities focussed on internationalisation (i18n) and localisation (l10n) for the respective native language.
• Participates in in-house training activities with the goal to achieve RHCT/RHCE certification.

We now have an internal drupal docbook running instead of the Wiki. This saves the users logging in twice. Please note that you too can contribute to the Documentation.

I've just put across the pages (content is yet to be filled back from the wiki). For now, you can visit and add pages here.

There had been few discussions about the SCIM Issue and the rendering issues in Breezy with Kannada.

Here's another update apart from what has been discussed in the above links. The package "free-fonts" on Breezy causes some weirdo problems with Kannada rendering. The characters get garbled on gedit and almost all GNOME based applications.

Make sure you have uninstalled this particular package to get rid of that problem.

Hope this helps Ubuntu breezy users.

yep, most of you might've been wondering what happened to the kannada l10n wiki. Its been down for a while now. The whole thing got messed up while I was trying to update to mediawiki 1.5. Please bear with us until we correct it. If you are interested in volunteering to help get it back on, you're welcome to do so.

Friends,

Here's a patched version of kannada itrans input scheme for SCIM, m17n. (Find the file attached to this post). Here are the instructions to use it:

(Assuming that you've installed SCIM and m17n, m17n-db on your favourite Linux Distribution)

* Login as root (or use sudo, fakeroot or anything similar).
* Unzip the file to /usr/share/m17n/

Reboot by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.

Change Log:

The following letters have been re-mapped or added.

ಋ - Ru (changed - was previously RRi)
ೠ - RU (changed - was previously RRI)
ಳ್ಳು - LLu (added)