Hello everyone,
It gives us great pleasure to announce an initial
list of proposals that have been accepted for the
RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships programme. Here is the
current list of fellows for the 2007-2008 cycle:
o Sawood Alam, et al:
Urdu localization of GNOME 2.20
o Sachin Joshi, Venkatesh Keri:
Hindi speech recognition system using CMU Sphinx
framework
o Ravishankar Shrivastava:
Hindi localization of KDE 4
o Dr. C. S. Yogananda, and D. Shivashankar:
SAGAR: Typesetting Indian languages in TeX / LaTeX
FLOSS fellows will be contacted independently to inform
them of details.
This year, we received over 30 proposals spanning a wide
range of topics, of which more than half were of high
quality. It has been a really difficult task for us to
try to fit the number of excellent proposals into the
available resources, and in fact we have decided to actively
solicit more funding in order to be able to accommodate
more of these. Thus, in about 4 months time, we expect to
make an announcement of a second set of fellowships from
among the short list below:
o Kishore Asok:
A beginner's guide and video presentation on learning
science with Phoenix and free software
o Niyam Bhushan:
Documentation for 'Digital Color Workflows' under FOSS
o Sriram Chaudhary, and Jagadeesh Gorla:
Rupantar - An English to Hindi translation package
o Abhishek Choudhary, Sweta Choudhary:
Hindawi Indic programming languages and system software
o Jayesh Goel
Providing an information dissemination system for the
city public transport
o Hassath
Assessment of the ICT practices of a sample set of NGOs
in Delhi, and an exploration of their readiness to convert
to FLOSS
o Anand Kulkarni:
Localizing Open Office user guide in Marathi and Urdu,
and development of animated software for Open Office
instruction
o Abhishek Kumar:
Enhancement of Newsrack for media analysis
o Prem Kumar, et al:
Prajna FLOSS corps for teaching FLOSS-based solutions,
with an aim to uplifting the poor.
o Jayasimha Makhineni:
Moodle for Hindi and Telugu languages
o Hari Prasad Nadig
Aspell dictionary, and localisation work in Kannada
o Fred Noronha
Book of stories about FLOSS work in India, Asia, and
Africa.
o Santhosh Thottingal:
Aspell Malayalam spelling checker
Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] should you have any further
queries. For a public discussion on this topic, please
address posts to the Sarai PRC mailing list:
https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc
Regards,
Gora
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