And at the same time GIMP still not migrated to GTK3...
Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
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Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#32Not surprising as the FSF India is HQed in Kerala, one of the progressive states in India with a high HDI. https://www.gnu.org/press/2001-07-20-FSF-India.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_te...
One of the longest serving democratically elected Communist parties leading the state as well.
Other than high literacy (which means able to sign your own name), I don't understand why Kerala is considered as good exmaple?
1. Due to communist style of functioning, setting up a business is near impossibility. I know friends who moved their business out of state since its marred with strikes.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/18-days-after-nri-...
2. It is fast becoming Islamic state of India.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/isis-recruiter...
https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/kerala-coast-on-ale...
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nia-conducts-raid-in-t...
3. Infrastructure seems to be dated (single lane road for most part of state) and floods wreak havoc every year.
Tagged as "God's own country" I expect much better from Kerala. However, I always find cliched "most educated" state remarks and self-pat on back without perusing its problems and what is happening to state.
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case, the webpage contains a pictures of the printed version.
https://janayugomonline.com/ I couldn't find that image here, am I missing something ?
Janayugom Online is the webversion It is done in wordpress. you can see the printed version in epaper.
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#34Scribus is amazing! I've used it for quite huge projects (like 200+ pages magazines) and it never let me down, especially if combined with LibreOffice, GIMP and Inkscape.
Wow that is very nice to see. I am member of dev team in Janayugom
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#35And at the same time GIMP still not migrated to GTK3...
Migration going on. Hopping a release on first quarter 2020
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
"legacy text encodings..." That sounds horrible !
Back in the 90s I assembled a binder of all the (not yet) legacy encodings then in use sourcing from ECMA and elsewhere. It was four inches thick double-sided. Unicode had just seen its initial release and it wasn't clear if that would be the universal text encoding or if it would be ISO-10646 which attempted to maintain a semblance of backwards compatibility with the morass of non-Latin/extended Latin text encodings…
Back in the 90s, the leading Malayalam newspaper had us download an exe of a font installer, maybe only for IE5.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Kerala model is indeed awesome, and Communist did great things there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
I grew up in Kerala in the 80s. When I go back I feel like we have walked backwards in many areas - religious conservatism and fundamentalism are out in the open. The internet had a huge role to play in that. Still better than many other states, but certainly not what it could have been. There are certainly many good things the Communists did, but it has also been the most violent (by democratic standards, not on a N…
I was born in 1989 and even post-USSR we had lots of books in English and Malayalam translated from Russian. From Raduga publishers, I had an illustrated astronomy book narrated as a grandfather making his kids observe the night sky; a book about a Moscow kid going to the countryside where his father was stationed; a book about a girl who kept on her not-remote farm a tall deer, two wolves (one had offspring that was star of a military parade), a tiger (who died of a heart attack at a zoo) and a boring horse.
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in the 90s I assembled a binder of all the (not yet) legacy encodings then in use sourcing from ECMA and elsewhere. It was four inches thick double-sided. Unicode had just seen its initial release and it wasn't clear if that would be the universal text encoding or if it would be ISO-10646 which attempted to maintain a semblance of backwards compatibility with the morass of non-Latin/extended Latin text encodings…
Isn't the Unicode codepoint repertoire pretty much identical to ISO 10646? AIUI Unicode only differs by standardizing additional character properties and rulesets, but the encodings are supposed to be identical.
They weren't using Unicode at all.
Instead they were using 'prehistoric' fonts patched by changing the glyphs in ASCII fonts(100s of them). This too without proper conventions.
They way to convert these to Unicode is by creating character maps in a font-by-font fashion.
Re: Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated completely to Free Software
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the longest serving democratically elected Communist parties leading the state as well.
Other than high literacy (which means able to sign your own name), I don't understand why Kerala is considered as good exmaple? 1. Due to communist style of functioning, setting up a business is near impossibility. I know friends who moved their business out of state since its marred with strikes. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/18-days-after-nri-... 2. It is fast becoming Islamic state of India. https://ww…
Yeah. See what you want to see and whine. Kerala has it's own problems but none of them isn't something alienated to all other states in India. But there are many things that can be called good attributes of this state that makes it an anomaly among all other states in India.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the longest serving democratically elected Communist parties leading the state as well.
Other than high literacy (which means able to sign your own name), I don't understand why Kerala is considered as good exmaple? 1. Due to communist style of functioning, setting up a business is near impossibility. I know friends who moved their business out of state since its marred with strikes. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/18-days-after-nri-... 2. It is fast becoming Islamic state of India. https://ww…
I am not sure where you got that definition for high literacy.
High literacy in Kerala lead to:
Higher life expectancy, lower infant mortality rate. Higher standard of living, knowing your rights, demand for equal pay, women's empowerment & many more. In Kerala the male to female ratio is healthy unlike rest of India where female feticide is still a problem. Kerala is also way ahead in terms of health & sanitation than rest of India.
While the problems you listed is not unique to Kerala, let me also remind you that India's first IT park is in Kerala and it paved the way for the rest of IT parks in India.
The narrow roads are due to the geography of Kerala which has beautiful winding green mountains, the entire state is on a mountain slopes towards the Arabian sea.
The secular nature of Kerala is worth mentioning too. You will not find any other place in India where people of all faiths live in such harmony & peace. This secular nature of Kerala is one of the reasons why BJP political party is unable to have any headway in Kerala.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/09/poor-bu...