Projects

Find out about undergoing FOSS and Localisation projects in Pakistan.

Video-Whale Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 12:17 PM

The video-whale project is an implementation of video-wall which exploits the combined power of GStreamer (www.gstreamer.net) and Xinerama. With it, four monitors are controlled by one machine, and a LAN of four machine controls a 16-monitor video wall. It comes across as a very interesting implementation of low-cost alternative technology to meet needs of the hardware-constrained, resource-poor but talent-rich Third World.

Pashtu Localization Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

This project is designed to initiate and facilitate the localization of Open Source Software into Pashtu, the majority language of Afghanistan and the border areas of Pakistan.

Urdu Localization by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

Urdu internationalization utilities. Three utilities: Inpage converter, typing tutor and collating/search will be made available initially.

Urdu Font Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

Urdu Font Project is a step towards Opensource development of True Type Unicode Standard based Urdu Fonts specially "Nastaleeq", "Nastaleeq" Like and "Naskh" fonts.

Urdu Indic Initiative by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

This is the F/OSS-based localization (l10n) Initiative for Urdu as spoken in the Indian sub-continent. The team is working towards a localized GNOME/KDE, Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice.org for ur_IN based on the Unicode Standard and associated technologies.

Urdu Bulletin Board by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

A Mozilla-Firefox Plugin which enables Urdu Typing/Rendering for HTML Pages.

RabtPad by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

RabtPad is a configurable unicode and Java based text editor for arabic based scripts including Urdu and Farsi with virtual keyboard for not latin scripts on latin based systems, export to pdf, rtf, html and plain text (later xml).

PyUrduEdit by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

PyUrduEdit is a simple text editor for the Urdu language.

Urdu phpBB by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

An Urdu adaptation of the phpBB forum software complete with langauge translation and an online Urdu editor.

Urdu OCR SDK by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

It is under progress and will be capable of of recognition of Urdu isolated character recognition. It is an SDK for offline Urdu character recognition.

Telenor SMS Script by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-11-14 02:35 PM

Telenor SMS sender script enables you to can send SMS to any Telenor mobile numbers in Pakistan.

Pilot Project for the End User's and Systems Administrator's Training on Open Source Software by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-05-27 01:19 PM

Scope of the project will consist of (i) Providing training to 4,000 End User's and 200 Systems Administrators on Open Source of Softwares (ii) To prepare training material for Open Source Software in simplistic form for End User's & Administrators.

Pakistan Honeynet Project by Tushar Abraham Mathew — last modified 2006-09-14 06:03 PM

Our goal is to learn and raise awareness about the motives and tactics of the Black Hat community targeting Pakistan's networks. We aim to share and dissipate knowledge about the various tools and hacker practices in use on the Internet today. In this way, we can serve the federal government, the private sector, state and local governments and higher education establishments countrywide. We welcome any individuals or organizations who are interested in becoming a part of this group's research and activities. We need to raise awareness of the threats and vulnerabilities that exist on Pakistan's networks today. This can be done by demonstrating real systems that are compromised in the wild by the Black Hat community. Since many people don't think it can happen to them, we have to change their minds.