Re: [Fwd: Re: draft keyboard for Nepal]

[Bryan Berry]

Gaurab

The layout on the OLPC website was mostly put together by the OLPC Nepal
guys.

as it is a wiki, you are welcome to edit or comment the wiki entry
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Nepal_Keyboard

Walter Bender of OLPC actually asked me for comments, but I am not
really in a position to comment

Subir and Basanta, is their a standard keyboard layout for Nepalinux?

--
Bryan W. Berry
External Relations Manager
OLE Nepal, http://nepal.ole.org

[Bryan Berry]

OLPC won't be producing 1 million laptops for Nepal. It will be more
like several hundred or at most a few thousand during 2008.

I think we should recommend either Nepalinux's traditional or romanized
layouts. Dhak Prasadji's layout may be faster for typing in Nepali but
it may also be more confusing for kids who will alternate between typing
in English and Nepali.

In the meantime we should look into verifying whether Dhak Prasadji's
layout is more efficient. Do you have his contact information?

thanks for your help Basanta Dai.

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:25 +0545, Basanta shrestha wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> Sorry, I couldn't reply earlier. Its a pity that we still don't have a
> standard layout for Nepali. I looked at the layout prepared by OLPC
> guys, but can't tell what this one is based on. As far as I can see,
> this layout has no proximity with Traditional, Romanized, or Devnagari
> Inscript for hindi.
>
> Few months back I had a meeting with Dhak Prasadji, Shankar, Ankur
> about this. I believe, Shankar was co-ordinating with Dhak Prasadji
> about this, so probably this is based on dhak prasadji's layout. He
> sounded very sure that this one is better than Romanized or
> Traditional that we have used in Nepalinux, but as fas as I know, no
> evaluation has been done on this.
>
> Given that, we don't have time to learn and evaluate this new layout,
> I would suggest you go for Romanized layout.To me, this is so far the
> best.
>
> On the other hand, since this is a matter of hardcoding layout in 1
> million laptop and Dhak prasadji layout is ready, it is also worth
> delaying the layout submission for a while and considering this new
> layout. What do you say?
>
>
> Regards,
> Basanta Shrestha