Linux (as you may know) is a computer operating system
providing pretty similar functionality to Microsoft
Windows with the exception that it is free and its
development process is open (see attached images of
the desktop).
Because it is free and is developed by the community,
Linux has spread fast all over the world. It has been
officially adopted by the governments of Germany,
Brazil, India, South Africa and France and is being
translated by volunteers into many languages from Zulu
to Sanskrit for common use.
In this vein, translating Linux also into Igbo would
be a tremendous boost to the millions of native Igbo
speakers in Nigeria. The zero cost of Linux combined
with seeing an operating system in Igbo would
facilitate computer learning and use for many people
back home.
I would appreciate if you would join us to get this
thing going. Your expertise in language structure,
characters, encodings, phrases, meanings, and all
things linguistics would be tremendously invaluable
for the task at hand.
Please send this message on to others who you may
think would be valuable in creating the world’s first
computer operating system translated into Igbo!
Best wishes.