[Freed] Summary workshop for 2007 RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships: 9/10 Aug., Sarai

[Gora Mohanty]

Hello everyone,
  Below is an announcement for a summary workshop for 
the 2007 RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowship workshop to be
held at Sarai over Sat., 9th Aug., and the first half
of Sun., 10th Aug. A detailed agenda will follow once
we confirm participation from our out-of-station
fellows.

The workshop will also be followed by an ILUG-D meeting
at 3pm on Sun., at the same venue. Please see the other
announcement.

Regards,
Gora

--------------------------------------------------------------------
9 and 10 August 2008
Seminar Room
Sarai-CSDS

The Sarai independent FLOSS Fellowships enable programmers to research
and develop different kinds of open source software applications.
Typically, these are projects of concrete and practical value,  
especially for social and educational ends. They are also the kinds  
of projects that would not usually find support in formal,  
institutional or market-driven settings, either because of the  
intent/nature of the goal or because of the 'open' nature of the  
knowledge thus produced/created.

This year, we had partnered with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF)
who are providing support for work in the specific area of computing,
and localisation in five Indian languages, namely, Assamese, Hindi,
Kashmiri, Oriya, and Urdu.

The summary workshop is a forum for fellows to present their work to
the larger FLOSS community, and to seek further engagement with the
projects. All are invited to take part in these enriching discussions.

The Sarai- CSDS FLOSS Fellows 2007:   
Sawood Alam, et al: Urdu localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.

Anand Kulkarni: Localisation of guides to OpenOffice, and other software in Marathi, and Urdu.

Sachin Joshi, Venkatesh Keri: Speech-to-text in Hindi, with application to other languages.

Rakesh Pandit, et al: Localisation of the GNOME desktop in Kashmiri.

Dr. N. M. Pattnaik, et al: Two fellowships for technical glossary in Oriya.

Ravishankar Shrivastava*: Hindi localisation of a FOSS computer desktop.
 
C. S. Yogananda, and D. Shivashankar: Publishing in Indian languages using TeX, applicable to all major Indian languages.

Amitakhaya Phukan: Assamese localisation of GNOME, a FOSS desktop for computers.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------