[g11n-it-discuss] Solaris G11N source code open sourced!

[Young Joo Pintaske]

(Hi! I'm passing on this announcement from Ienup who's not available at 
the moment. Please read on the good news. :-) Happy holidays!)


Hello I18n language communities,

I'm delighted to have an honor to announce that we, Sun G11N, have open 
sourced Solaris G11N source code at OpenSolaris.org and the source code 
can be found from the following:

     http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/int_localization/sources/

The README (Release Note) file with detail information on how to build 
is available also at the following:

     http://dlc.sun.com/osol/g11n/downloads/current/README.opensolaris.g11n

Our main focus on the initial source release was on the OS locales and 
system libraries including numerous iconv code conversions. The message 
translation sources which have been provided in dedicated tarballs in 
the past are now part of the new tarball. We are not yet done; we have 
still many components that we are moving from closed to open side as we 
speak, and we will also open up the SVN source tree soon as the next step.

Even before this milestone, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada locales were already 
contributed. With these codes open now, we hope to see more and more 
activities around locales and languages in OpenSolaris. Let's make 
OpenSolaris approachable from anywhere in the world! :-)


If you have any comment, question, suggestion, and so on, i18n-discuss 
at opensolaris.org would be the best place to start. We also have many 
language group mailing lists as follows:

     http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/int_localization/discussions/

I would like to use this chance to acknowledge the core team members who 
made this possible and who are working diligently right now to bring the 
SVN source tree to out in the open. Without their contributions and 
dedication, I don't think we would have been able to announce this 
humble but historic start. Here are the names of the core members in 
alphabetical order:

     Elizabeth McArthur
     Kieran Colfer
     Osamu Sayama
     Simford Dong
     Takeshi Asano
     Valerie Alabanza

The project team also received numerous contributions and help from many 
people and some folks are from outside of the company:

     Alan Coopersmith
     Ales Cernosek
     Alexander Kuzmin
     Andrew Josey
     Bonnie Corwin
     Brian Yuan
     Ca Saundra Lowery
     Chookij Vanatham
     Chris Nadan
     Damien Donlon
     Dermot Malone
     Gavin Tu
     Ervin Yan
     Fuyuki Hasegawa
     Jack Kang
     Jacqueline Hansson
     Josh Shey
     Kenji Tachibana
     Kimm Yeo
     Kiyofumi Tanaka
     Leann Pugsley
     Liang-Hui Yang
     Linda Park
     Margaret Powers
     Mimi Hills
     Noel Franus
     Patty O'brien
     Peter Nugent
     Peter Srivaree-Ratana
     Pete Wang
     Rich Burridge
     Rosemary Maginniss
     Shinobu Matsuzuka
     Steve Holden
     Suresh Chandrasekharan
     Tom Garland
     Wenling Chen
     Winnie Luk
     Yandong Yao
     Young J. Pintaske

Thank you,
Ienup