Application received from Taneem Ahmed (taneem bengalinux org)

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Contact Information:
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Name: Taneem Ahmed
E-mail: taneem bengalinux org
irc.gnome.org nickname (if any): taneem
cvs.gnome.org username (if any): taneem

Previous GNOME Foundation member: no

GNOME contributions:
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Summary:
Bengali Translation Coordinator

Detailed description:
I am the coordinator of Bengali translation team. Beside that I have done small fixes to pango for Bengali rendering.

Contacts:
Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>
Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>

Other comments:
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I am the founder of Ankur Group (www.bengalinux.org), and we are working towarding supporting Bengali on Linux. Personally I have submitted the bn_BD locale file to glibc, and also the Bengali "probhat" layout to XFree86. I wrote a small Bengali spell checker using gnome, which also prints proper Bengali .ps using OpenType and pango. I intend to port this part of the code to libgnomeprint as there is no such support right now.

[Application received at Mon Sep 15 1:56:07 2003 (Eastern time)]