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Ankur Group
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Ankur is working toward supporting Bengali language (Bangla) on GNU/Linux operating system. Most of Ankur's projects are focused on XFree86.org's XServer. Some of its projects are in fact platform independent and add language support to other operating systems. The group is also working on providing Bengali support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, databases, development tools and desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE. Ankur's intention is to help develop and maintain open source/free software targeted towards the Bengali speaking user and to provide a completely functional, user intuitive localised desktop that is easily usable and easily deployable. History Initially, Ankur started as the bengalinux-core mailing list. This later worked as the nucleus for forming Ankur. Taneem Ahmed of Bangladesh, the founder of Ankur, was developing and maintaining the http://www.BengaLinux.Org website - a one stop mall for Unix based Bengali Free Software. He was also the author of the bn_BD locale for the GNU C library. This established his identity as major figure in the Bengali open source community. In October 2002, he launched the bengalinux-core mailing list. This list became a focus of Bengali related Open Source enthusiasts. In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bengali Translation Project and began recruiting for the project. The recruitment call was taken seriously and the project began to expand. After some discussion on a group name of discussion, 'Ankur', proposed by Kaushik Ghosh. On 3 March 2003, the name Ankur was officially adopted. Major achievement * Creation of the first Bengali graphical Desktop in any Linux distribution. * Design and release of the first Open Type font (Akash) which made possible the use of Unicode-based Bengali. * Organising the Bengali-speaking open-source developers (Unix-based) under a single platform. * Release of the first Bengali OS (i.e. Ankur Live CD) in 2004. * Best .org project at LinuxAsia 2006 Current projects * GUI (Graphical User Interface) translation/localization, * Font designing/maintenance, * Archiving copyright-expired literature, * Maintaining a Linux Live CD with Bengali-specific add-ons, * Developing various Bengali-language-processing software, * English-to-Bengali translator Anubadok, * Bengali OCR, * Bengali Dictionary 
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