How about start a 'beijing' ZUG Options

[zhanght]

AFAIK, Zaurus series like sl5500/5600 already very popular in beijing.
and a lot of people own even C7XX, even a lot of ipaq user refalash their ipaq 36/3800 to run 'familia'.
Anyway, porting simplicity chinese inputmethod and convert 'simsun' font will unite a lot of people join 'beijing' ZUG.

[zhanght]

BTW: There is a 'fantastic' Chinese Zaurus Fourm in taiwan for a long time.
http://zaurus.cis92.net/plps
Admin of that fourm, named 'monoldo' (nick:Captain of Traffic),
he lead a group of hacker there, they already done a lot of contribute
like 'traditional chinese inputmethod' and Big5 support for most of QT applications.
They even maintained a Traditional Chinese ROM with a kernelpatched 'preemtion feature' for sl5500.

[zhanght]

To my own point of view:
Zaurus is a Personal Mobile Tool, Not a traditional PDA only used for PIM.
It's also a good device to help youngman or students in college to learn linux!
but as we know CEC sell both sl5600c and sl7500c in such a high price with out any reason!
eg. You can buy a sl7500c from 'CEC' but use the same money you can get a brand-new C860 with a CF Wifi card together!
AFAIK, except chinese localizaiton/handwriting input method and CF GPRS driver, CEC almost do Nothing!
So... a lot of protential zaurus users will lost the chance to get in touch with it and lost chance to learn qt/java/kernel/embedded development on Zaurus.
My last words : beijing ZUG will help most of people in China who get Zaurus not from 'CEC' do simplicity chinese localization work. and supply optimized kernel.

[craigtyson]

ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus. I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters. Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set. A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience

[chyang]

nice to meet guys also in beijing here.
I prefer the ZUG of China.

[chyang]

ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus. I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters. Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set. A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qpe-zh-tools/
try here, there is a pinyin input method available in simplified Pinyin.
I think that Zhanght must have some better input method. Perhaps we can share with him. If it is not compiled for SL-5600C's pxa250/pxa255 specifically, I can use it on my StrongARM 1110 based sl-5500.
Zhanght, How about it?

[murphytalk]

ts not only people in Beijing who need a CN localised Zaurus.  I live in the UK but use my Z as a quick lookup from Chinese to English and back using Pinyin and simplified characters.  Its been a big frustration to me that the only Chinese input methods I can find for pinyin all are based on the traditional character set.  A Beijing ZUG might just be the thing to get some proper CN localisation going and also bring the Z to a larger audience

I just released a pinyin inputmethod under GPL, have a try
murphytalk pinyin inputmethod

but it is a version dedicated to C7xx/C8xx.