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The long awaited Samyak fonts are finally in Fedora . Being one of the major initial projects in my career, Samyak will always remain close to the heart. Thanks to Pravin for packaging them very well in accordance to the font SIG's guidelines and thanks to Parag for reviewing it. Thanks to Sandeep Shedmake as well for driving this in. His contributions for licensing/copyright text correction and few other bug fixes really made it happen. I had plans to put them in fedora's last two releases as well, but something else always kept it away from priority. Somebody must have said, 'never forget to thank yourself'. So here I am, patting my own shoulder for being the initiator of the design for these fonts. One more reason to fall in love for this, the name ' Samyak ', given by me, still remains a source of inspiration and attachment. Finally how can I forget Dr. Nagarjuna G., who has been the initiator and the guiding force behind the entire project. A special tha...

After advocating font licenses to be other than GPL, I had to review the license of the self maintained Samyak font. Thus the discussion is on at samyak-users list. If you think there is really something about GPL with 'font exception' and OFL then please join the list and start commenting. The other list (samyak-devel) is not functioning an I'm trying to get it up. Should be ok within couple of days. Till then the general purpose IRC channel #samyak on freenode.net would be a good place to find developers and do some quick chats.

At TIFR, we have undertaken an internationalization project , with major concern towards Indic Comtuting Solutions. Till now we have successfully developed Multilingual Fonts, "Samyak", for 7 Indic scripts, which is a milestone in its own. This is now considered to be one of the most successful project of its kind. Soon this will be available as a debian package for linux systems. It works on both linux and windows platform. You can visit the project site at : http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/index.htm Also visit my page at IndLinux.org: http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Rahulpb