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

[Gora Mohanty]

Hello everyone,
  Please note that this is cross-posted to various mailing
lists, and trim follow-ups appropriately.

  Below is the final announcement for the summary workshop
for the RGF-Sarai 2007 FLOSS fellowship programme, this
time including an agenda. The workshop will be followed
on Sun., by an ILUG-D meeting at the same venue, from
3-5pm, an agenda for which is being circulated separately.
Directions to Sarai are available in the answer to the
final FAQ entry on
http://www.sarai.net/about-us/faqs/questions-28-31

Regards,
Gora


           RGF-Sarai  FLOSS  fellow  summary  workshop
                    9-10  Aug.,  2008

Seminar Room, Sarai, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054

     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. It is open to the public, and all
are invited to take part in these enriching discussions.

  The RGF-Sarai, CSDS FLOSS Fellows for 2007 are:
  o Sawood Alam, et al: Urdu localisation of GNOME, a FOSS
    desktop for computers. 
  o Sachin Joshi, Venkatesh Keri: Speech-to-text in Hindi,
    with application to other languages. 
  o Anand Kulkarni, et al:  Localisation of guides to
      OpenOffice, and other software in Marathi, and Urdu.
  o Rakesh Pandit, et al: Localisation of the GNOME desktop in
    Kashmiri. 
  o Dr.  N. M. Pattnaik, Pushpashree Pattnaik, et al:  Two
    fellowships for technical glossary, and dictionary in Oriya.
  o Amitakhaya Phukan: Assamese localisation of GNOME, a FOSS
    desktop for computers. 
  o Ravishankar Shrivastava: Hindi localisation of KDE4, a
    FOSS computer desktop. 

  o Dr. C. S. Yogananda, and D. Shivashankar: Publishing in
    Indian languages using TeX, applicable to all major Indian languages.


                     Day  I:  9th  Aug.,  2008
_______________________________________________________________________
  Start  End       Topic                                    Speaker
_______________________________________________________________________
  11:00 11:30  The RGF-Sarai fellowship programme           G. Mohanty
  11:30 12:00  Introduction of participants
  12:00 12:15  TEA BREAK
  12:15 13:15  Hindi localisation of KDE4                   R. Shrivastava
  13:15 14:00  LUNCH
  14:00 15:00  Publishing in Indian languages using TeX     Dr. C. S. Yogananda
  15:00 16:00  Assamese localisation of GNOME               G. Mohanty
  16:00 16:15  TEA BREAK
  16.15 17:00  Marathi,_and_Urdu_work                       G. Mohanty
_______________________________________________________________________



                    Day  II:  10th  Aug.,  2008
_______________________________________________________________________
  Start  End       Topic                                    Speaker
_______________________________________________________________________
  11:00 12:00  Oriya technical glossary, and dictionary     Dr. N. Pattnaik
  12:00 13:00  Hindi speech recognition                     S. Joshi
  13:00 14:00  LUNCH
  14:00 14:30  Urdu localisation work                       S. Alam
  14:30 15:00  Kashmiri localisation work                   R. Pandit
_______________________________________________________________________