Projects

Find links to ongoing FOSS and Localization projects.

The Indic-Computing Project by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-08-09 05:17 PM

The Indic-Computing Project creates open-source infrastructural code, and provides technical documentation on Indian language computing issues. Their mailing lists provide forums where Indian language computing can be discussed.

IndLinux Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-11 03:33 PM

Indlinux.org is a group of people who passionately believe that the benefits of information technology must be widely and freely available to the Indian masses

Indix by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-29 02:40 PM

The basic IndiX agenda is that the text processing should be as easy for the Indian scripts as it is for English for the user.

The Luit Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-29 02:44 PM

The project's goal is to localize free and open-source software in the Assamese language.

OpenOffice in Hindi by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 06:27 PM

Participate in the OpenOffice localization project for Hindi.

Padma by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Padma is a technology for transforming Indic text between various public and proprietary formats. This extension applies the technology to Mozilla based applications. Padma is available as an extension for Firefox, Thunderbird, Netscape, Mozilla suite and SeaMonkey platforms. Padma currently supports Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Devanagari, Gujarati, Kannada, and Bengali scripts. Padma can automatically transform web pages that use the above dynamic font schemes to Unicode.

Project Rebati by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Localization for the Oriya language.

Ankur Bangla Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Ankur is working toward supporting Bangla(Bengali) language on GNU/Linux operating system. It is a joint effort of enthusiasts from Bengal and Bangladesh.

Utkarsh by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Gujarati Localization of GNU/Linux.

Kannada Localization Initiative by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Join in to bring the power of IT to the Kannadigas.

Swathantra Malayalam Computing by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2007-04-06 04:56 PM

Community project working on localization, internationalization , development, standardization and training of Malayalam language computing.

MarathiOpenSource by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

They are a group of people trying to initiate and help Open Source Development in and for Marathi.

Punlinux by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

Punlinux is an effort to add Punjabi language support in GNU/Open source software. A number of projects they are working on include * SuSE 9.3+ (GNU/Linux Operating system) * Mandriva 10+ (GNU/Linux Operating system) * Fedora Core (Free GNU/Linux Operating system) * Gnome (Most popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux OS) * KDE (K Desktop Environment) * Mozilla Web browser suite (Firefox, Thunderbird) * OpenOffice.org (Opensource Office suite)

ThamizhLinux by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

This site is intended to serve as a primary help point for all resources in Linux and Open Source in Tamil.

Swecha by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-10-31 07:22 PM

GNU/Linux Telugu Localization Effort

gnowledge by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-27 07:00 PM

A project by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,TIFR to make knowledge accessible freely for the community in general

dhvani by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-27 07:00 PM

dhvani is the Text-to-Speech effort of the Simputer Trust. The aim of this effort is to ensure that literacy and knowledge of English are not essential for using the Simputer. Using images in conjunction with voice output in local languages makes the Simputer accessible to a larger fraction of the Indian population. Currently dhvani has a phonetics-to-speech engine which is capable of generating intelligible speech from a suitable phonetic description in any Indian Language . In addition, it is capable of converting UTF-8 text in Hindi & Kannada to this phonetic description, and then speaking it out using the Phonetics-to-Speech engine.