Localisation as a Political process: A case study on swathanthra malayalam computing
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The document outlines the achievements and ongoing projects of the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) initiative, which focuses on the localization and standardization of Malayalam language support in free software. Key accomplishments include the integration of Malayalam in Debian GNU/Linux, development of multiple tools and fonts, and participations such as the Google Summer of Code. The document emphasizes the importance of democratic development and the role of technology in facilitating free knowledge and community standards in the digital era.
Localisation as a Political process: A case study on swathanthra malayalam computing
- 2. We are ... ➢ An informal developer collective
- 3. We are working on ... ➢ Localisation ➢ Standardisation ➢ Development, Mentoring and ➢ Free Software advocacy ... of Malayalam support in Free Software desktops
- 4. Achievements so far ● Debian GNU/Linux is now installable in Malayalam ● Added Malayalam support to Dhvani Indian Language text to speech system ● Participated in Google summer of code programme 2007 ( SMC is the only Indian project qualified for this) ● Added Malayalam support to GNU Aspell spellchecker
- 5. Achievements so far ● Developed a phonetic input scheme called swanalekha based on SCIM ● Added bolnagiri based phonetic X keyboard Lalitha ● Added Pango support to Tuxtype typing tuitor . Now tuxtype is usable in all indic languages. ● SMC artwork team is released Matrix Digital rain screensaver with malayalam glyphs and GDM themes
- 6. Achievements so far ● Malayalam accepted as a official language in Gnome 2.20 with more than 80% translation ● Developed Meera: an even width traditional lipi unicode font ● KDE 4.0 came with a press release in malayalam for its release along with 21 other languages
- 7. Achievements so far ● Developed Dyuthi : The first traditional lipi ornamental unicode font in malayalam ● Dhvani & indic support in tuxtype won FOSS India Awards 2008
- 9. Enabling element in Knowledge society ● Focus on enabling user ● Removing one more barrier ● Redefining notion of Knowledge in googled world ● Free Knowledge movement
- 10. ICTs for Disabled ● Dhvani - Indian Langauge Text to Speech System ● Sharika - Speech Recogonised (Under development)
- 11. Towards free Information Infrastructures ● The need ● Focus ● Technology frameworks for language infrastructure
- 12. Distributed Development ● Smartcities are not needed for Technological Development ● Knowledge Globalization can be possible from Localised distributed development ● Democratic Development & Decision making
- 13. Peer 2 Peer Politics ● Decision making in online collective ● Peer evaluations and collaborations of whole work ● Wiki votings
- 14. User to Producer : A success story ● 3 Developers > 35+ Developers ● The Free Software Model ● SMC is the Biggest Free Software Community in Kerala
- 15. Weaving a Language market with technology on peoples hands ● The technology is available to commons ● Enterprenureship possibilities are high ● Secratariet ● Khadi board ● Zyxware
- 16. Wallwriting Traditions ● Visual diversity in the age of Fluxboards ● Reclaiming the diverse traditions
- 17. Towards Free Standards in Indic Computing For Community standards in Digital era
- 18. Ongoing Projects ● Malayalam Natural ● Swathanthra Malayalam Language Processing Corpos (NLP Project) ● Sarika ● Sulekha IME ● Malayalam OCR ● KDEMalayalam ● Various Font projects ● GnomeMalayalam ● Distro Repositories ● Debianmalayalam ● Documentations ● SMCartwork ● Bug monitoring
- 19. Contact Anivar Aravind anivar@movingrepublic.org http://anivar.movingrepublic.org http://replyspot.blogspot.com Come & join Swathanthra Malayalam Computing http://smc.org.in http://savannah.nongnu.org/project/smc smcdiscuss@googlegroups.com IRC: #smcproject & #smcdiscuss at freenode.net