[Fsf-friends] Re: [Fsf-kerala] Software Freedom day event was a grand success

[Arun M]

Good work!!!

Keep it going.

with regards
arun.

On 9/16/07, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/2007/smc-sfd07-wide-news-coverage-in-malayalam-dailies/
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> Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) got widespread support from
> malayalam mainstream print media for the 2 day (14th & 15th september)
> software freedom day celebration & the release of 7 software packages
> developed during last year. It is the time to look at our history.
>
> SMC is reactivated from a dead state, as a result of personal
> discussions with praveen, hiran & vimaljoseph in the sidelines of
> GPLv3 Conference in bangalore. The new team is setup at last year SFD
> celebrations in Thrissur. Suresh, Baiju(the founder of SMC), Hussain
> KH (rachana), Anwar, Students in GEC etc also joined in the team at
> that time. Now we have more than 30 developers+localizers. The
> astounding progress within the short span of time is described below
>
>     * December 2006: Debian Installer is Fully Translated into
> Malayalam ( The Work of Debian malayalam, a sub team of Swathanthra
> malayalam computing)
>     * January 2007: Santhosh Thottingal of SMC done a complete
> architectural rewrite of Dhvani, the Indian language text to speech
> system by Ramesh hariharan & added Malayalam support to It.
>     * March 2007 : participated & Conducted workshops in FOSS
> Meet at NITC, Kozhikkode
>     * March 2007: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing selected as a
> participating Organisation ( and only Indian Organisation) in Google
> Summer of Code Project. 5 projects were allotted.
>     * April 2007: GNU aspell supported Malayalam (major issues are
> resolved)
>     * May 2007: Swanalekha: a Phonetic Input scheme for malayalam using
> SCIM
>     * June 2007: Lalitha, Bolnagiri based xkb keyboard for malayalam by
> Jinesh
>     * July 2007: Added pango support to Tuxtype by Mobin M as part of
> GSoC work. Now Tuxtype is usable for all Indian languages
>     * July 2007:Debian package (Debconf )Translations. Malayalam is
> the Most translated indian language with 27% translation of
> configuration strings
>     * August 2007: Malayalam Matrix screen saver Release, & First
> Public Release of Aspell- malayalam spellchecker with More than 137000
> words list (It is the largest Indian Language Aspell wordlist. Second
> is hindi with 25000 words).
>     * September 2007: Gnome Officially supports malayalam in Gnome
> 2.20 with More than 80% translations
>     * September 2007: Sarika : The first Free Indian language speech
> recognition engine is developed by Shyam K (as a part of GsoC). It
> Currently identifies more than 50 malayalam words
>     * September 2007: Tuxtype malayalam is Released by Mobin.M &
> friends (Vimal, Shreyas, Sreeranj, Prince)
>     * Meera , a Malayalam Traditional opentype font with more than 900
> glyphs is released under GNU GPL by Hussain K.H and Suresh P . It is
> developed for Suruma renderering scheme (not compatible with Uniscribe
> scheme for windows) . Authors are working on a Uniscribe compatible
> (windows) version now
>