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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 _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed
