Please, it there really nobody who would be interested in this project?
Perhaps I could come to a FOSS meeting and present it (sometime after 5th of January)? Subir Pradhanang: Could you contact HLCIT/NITC and see if they are interested? Jacob On Dec 6, 10:12 pm, Jacob N <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 5:32 pm, "nepbabu.cx" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Jacob N wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > [...] > > > > You'll have to know some Java and be ready to do (or delegate) the > > > spreadsheet work for the font conversion tables > > > (seehttp://code.google.com/p/nepaliconverter/source/browse/trunk/Conversi... > > > for an example). > > > [...] > > > > Perhaps some company could assign a developer to this and get great > > > publicity when its finished and they can publish it in their own name > > > (must remain Open Source, of course). > > > I suppose 2 months on half time work for a developer is needed. > > > > Jacob > > > Why can't students do this project? This is a great chance for students to > > enhance their CV as well as get some work done in an opensource language. > > Besides, its also applicable to the context of Nepal. I think its a good > > chance for CS students to grab the chance. > > Yes, if a student (group) is interested its fine. The problem is the > timing, as the project must be done during the next few months. > Also, this group must be ready to be really persistent and 'go to the > end' with the project, as a real, downloadable, usable application is > needed in the end. > So for example the conversion tables must be complete and they must be > there for most of the fonts, which requires some tedious testing and > quality assurance work (which is really a very realistic situation and > a good experience). > And someone needs to maintain it afterwards (which would be extremely > honorable - to be the maintainer of the software evryone uses for > conversion/transliteration of Nepali!) > > And, please note, although I'm also a Java teacher I wont be using a > lot of time teaching Java to anyone. I have some other projects to > finish as well before I leave Nepal (some Esperanto films, an > opensource Nepali-Esperanto dictionaryhttp://nespa.saluton.dk/vortaro > and an opensource English-Esperanto Machine Translation system > -http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Category:English_and_Esperanto- for > which I hope to 'sell' to someone for making opensource Nepali-English > og Nepali-Esperanto machine translation, im going to hold a talk about > that on Tribuvan University in december or january). > > Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
