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FLOSS Fellowships 2004-2005
KDE Translation - G. Karunakar and Ravishankar Srivastav
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/indlinux/indlinux-hindi-0.9.tar.gz?download
With support from the fellowship, translation of the KDE desktop into Hindi started in January 2004, and by June was nearly 90% complete. Subsequently, a translation review Workshop was held in August at Sarai to review the completed work. These updates were later included in the IndLinux release, Unnati (Indlinux Hindi v0.9) available for download on
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/indlinux/indlinux-hindi-0.9.tar.gz?download
Indicart - Surekha Sastry and K. Srinivasa Raghavan
http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/
Worked on multilingual support for web applications (executed on the server end, instead of the user end) by developing "Indicart", a project management website offering Indic resources for software and interface development. This “cart” is an open community for developers, research scientists and end-users to participate in, creating his/her own project space and enabling maintenance of a project management tool with Indic support.
http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/
Their fellowships were extended at the end of last year in support of their development of Indic Input Method Editor (IME) for Indian language support for Mozilla browsers. The IME toolbar can be directly installed from http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/servlet/ViewPosting?di_p=723&urlid=indic
Indic Font Development - Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/.
During the course of the fellowship he developed two Indic fonts, Baraha in Hindi and Aakash in Bengali. He also documented the process of creating unicode compliant Indic open-type fonts from existing non-open type, non-unicode fonts, through a written tutorial and a video demonstration. The tutorials are hosted at this website http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/.
P2P Usability research - Shehjar Tikoo
http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/py-apt-tut.txt .
He is researching the use of P2P technologies for sharing popular software and as a means of efficient distribution of such software over slow networks (low bandwidth) through popular software package management system APT and integrating it with popular P2P filesharing tool, BitTorrent. In the process he also developed a tutorial for Python bindings. The tutorial is available on the following link: http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/py-apt-tut.txt .
Examples can be found on http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/pyapt.tar.bz2
P2P News Distribution - Soumava Das
Soumava extensively researched and tested open source technologies and methodologies and conceptualised a P2P news distribution framework. This work is still in progress and when completed will be the first of its kind and will usher in a new paradigm in the field of news distribution.
Newsrack - S. Subramanya Sastry
http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack
Sastry worked on a generic news archiving tool, Newsrack, that automatically collects and organises information according to pre-defined keywords. The Newsrack tool tried to address the need felt by non-profit organisations to collate and archive news items and other information on specific subjects. He has created a website (http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack) for hosting, testing and evaluation of this tool. Newsrack was a great success in capturing Tsunami-related news in December 2004.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/indlinux/indlinux-hindi-0.9.tar.gz?download
With support from the fellowship, translation of the KDE desktop into Hindi started in January 2004, and by June was nearly 90% complete. Subsequently, a translation review Workshop was held in August at Sarai to review the completed work. These updates were later included in the IndLinux release, Unnati (Indlinux Hindi v0.9) available for download on
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/indlinux/indlinux-hindi-0.9.tar.gz?download
Indicart - Surekha Sastry and K. Srinivasa Raghavan
http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/
Worked on multilingual support for web applications (executed on the server end, instead of the user end) by developing "Indicart", a project management website offering Indic resources for software and interface development. This “cart” is an open community for developers, research scientists and end-users to participate in, creating his/her own project space and enabling maintenance of a project management tool with Indic support.
http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/
Their fellowships were extended at the end of last year in support of their development of Indic Input Method Editor (IME) for Indian language support for Mozilla browsers. The IME toolbar can be directly installed from http://mail.sarai.net:8080/indic/servlet/ViewPosting?di_p=723&urlid=indic
Indic Font Development - Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/.
During the course of the fellowship he developed two Indic fonts, Baraha in Hindi and Aakash in Bengali. He also documented the process of creating unicode compliant Indic open-type fonts from existing non-open type, non-unicode fonts, through a written tutorial and a video demonstration. The tutorials are hosted at this website http://sayamindu.randomink.org/conv_guide/.
P2P Usability research - Shehjar Tikoo
http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/py-apt-tut.txt .
He is researching the use of P2P technologies for sharing popular software and as a means of efficient distribution of such software over slow networks (low bandwidth) through popular software package management system APT and integrating it with popular P2P filesharing tool, BitTorrent. In the process he also developed a tutorial for Python bindings. The tutorial is available on the following link: http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/py-apt-tut.txt .
Examples can be found on http://users.sarai.net/shehjar/download/pyapt.tar.bz2
P2P News Distribution - Soumava Das
Soumava extensively researched and tested open source technologies and methodologies and conceptualised a P2P news distribution framework. This work is still in progress and when completed will be the first of its kind and will usher in a new paradigm in the field of news distribution.
Newsrack - S. Subramanya Sastry
http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack
Sastry worked on a generic news archiving tool, Newsrack, that automatically collects and organises information according to pre-defined keywords. The Newsrack tool tried to address the need felt by non-profit organisations to collate and archive news items and other information on specific subjects. He has created a website (http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack) for hosting, testing and evaluation of this tool. Newsrack was a great success in capturing Tsunami-related news in December 2004.