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GSoC/2016/Project ideas

2016-03-14T06:02:54Z

Jishnu7: /* Indic Keyboard */ adding use case

<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sayamindu Das Gupta ('''unmadindu'''on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeesh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Samuel Thibault ('''youpi''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/GSoC/2016#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list] of [http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam computing]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=
== Indic Keyboard ==

'''Project'''ː Better user on boarding / first time user experience.

'''Details''': We should have tutorials and other informations on the setup wizard.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android, Fix at least one bug that is marked as beginner/easy in https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

'''Project'''ː Better user on boarding / first time user experience.

'''Project'''ː Convert keyboard into a SDK format.

'''Details''': An SDK will help third party developers to bundle IndicKeyboard in their app.

'''Use case''': Apps which are targeted at Indian audience can accept text input without asking user to install and configure Indic Keyboard. Libindic SDK provides similar feature. But it has only transliteration. Indic Keyboard provides full featured layouts like Inscript and Phonetic.

'''Complexity''': Difficult

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android, Fix at least one bug that is marked as beginner/easy in https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

== libindic - Android ==

'''Project'''ː Merge transliteration module and android-ime of IndicKeyboard

'''Details''': Transliteration module which we use in IndicKeyboard is significantly better and well tested. We should use that instead of maintaining a second library.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android

'''Project'''ː Finish Demo app and release it in Google Play store

'''Details''': We need to fix current issues and update the demo app to attract developers.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android

== ibus-braille module modifications ==

'''Project'''ː

This project will be to make improvements on the [[GSoC/2014/Project_ideas#Adding_Braille_Keyboard_layouts_for_Indian_Languages_to_m17n_Library | project]] that was successfully completed by a student under SMC. The remaining tasks areː
#Integrate Ibus-Braille with Liblouis
#Create Table editor for Liblouis
#Create a web version and host it.
#Add more indian languages to Liblouis
#Add facility to write direct braille Unicode characters
#Remove espeak dependency and make accessible via orca itself.

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Samuel Thibault

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - youpi on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

== Varnam based ==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]].

=== Add Varnam support into Indic Keyboard ===

'''Project''':

As part of this project, students can add support for Varnam into IndicKeyboard. This involves roughly the following steps:

# Compiling libvarnam for Android
# Writing JNI wrappers for the libvarnam library
# Hooking up varnamd on Android to do the word corpus synchronization
# Add varnam support to IndicKeyboard

Before submitting proposals:

# Ensure you can program using C, Java and golang
# Ensure you have varnam libraries compiled on your local machine
# Ensure you have IndicKeyboard setup on your local machine

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Navaneeth K. N.

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': C, Java, golang, Android

'''What the student will learn''': How to write an input system for Android

Reference:

# [https://www.varnamproject.com/ Varnam]
# IndicKeyboard [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic Playstore] | [https://github.com/androidtweak/Indic-Keyboard Github]

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=
== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

libindic project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of libindic framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==libindic Project Based==

===libindic Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing libindic infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to libindic without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with libindic to provide Webfonts support.

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

===Converting indic processing modules currently in libindic into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the libindic algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in libindic project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into libindic===

Create a libindic module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a libindic module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

GSoC/2016/Project ideas

2016-03-10T08:49:52Z

Jishnu7: Project ideas for Indic Keyboard and Libindic SDK

<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sayamindu Das Gupta ('''unmadindu'''on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeesh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Samuel Thibault ('''youpi''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/GSoC/2016#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list] of [http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam computing]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=
== Indic Keyboard ==

'''Project'''ː Better user on boarding / first time user experience.

'''Details''': We should have tutorials and other informations on the setup wizard.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android, Fix at least one bug that is marked as beginner/easy in https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

'''Project'''ː Better user on boarding / first time user experience.

'''Project'''ː Convert keyboard into a SDK format.

'''Details''': An SDK will help third party developers to bundle IndicKeyboard in their app.

'''Complexity''': Complex

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android, Fix at least one bug that is marked as beginner/easy in https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

== libindic - Android ==

'''Project'''ː Merge transliteration module and android-ime of IndicKeyboard

'''Details''': Transliteration module which we use in IndicKeyboard is significantly better and well tested. We should use that instead of maintaining a second library.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android

'''Project'''ː Finish Demo app and release it in Google Play store

'''Details''': We need to fix current issues and update the demo app to attract developers.

'''Complexity''': Easy

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android

== ibus-braille module modifications ==

'''Project'''ː

This project will be to make improvements on the [[GSoC/2014/Project_ideas#Adding_Braille_Keyboard_layouts_for_Indian_Languages_to_m17n_Library | project]] that was successfully completed by a student under SMC. The remaining tasks areː
#Integrate Ibus-Braille with Liblouis
#Create Table editor for Liblouis
#Create a web version and host it.
#Add more indian languages to Liblouis
#Add facility to write direct braille Unicode characters
#Remove espeak dependency and make accessible via orca itself.

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Samuel Thibault

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - youpi on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

== Varnam based ==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]].

=== Add Varnam support into Indic Keyboard ===

'''Project''':

As part of this project, students can add support for Varnam into IndicKeyboard. This involves roughly the following steps:

# Compiling libvarnam for Android
# Writing JNI wrappers for the libvarnam library
# Hooking up varnamd on Android to do the word corpus synchronization
# Add varnam support to IndicKeyboard

Before submitting proposals:

# Ensure you can program using C, Java and golang
# Ensure you have varnam libraries compiled on your local machine
# Ensure you have IndicKeyboard setup on your local machine

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Navaneeth K. N.

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': C, Java, golang, Android

'''What the student will learn''': How to write an input system for Android

Reference:

# [https://www.varnamproject.com/ Varnam]
# IndicKeyboard [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smc.inputmethod.indic Playstore] | [https://github.com/androidtweak/Indic-Keyboard Github]

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=
== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

libindic project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of libindic framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==libindic Project Based==

===libindic Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing libindic infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to libindic without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with libindic to provide Webfonts support.

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

===Converting indic processing modules currently in libindic into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the libindic algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in libindic project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into libindic===

Create a libindic module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a libindic module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

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<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Baiju M ('''baijum''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sayamindu Das Gupta ('''unmadindu'''on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeesh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nandaja Varma ('''gem''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Praveen A ('''j4v4m4n''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Ershad K ('''ershad''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Samuel Thibault ('''youpi''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nishan Naseer ('''nishan''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/GSoC/2016#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list] of [http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam computing]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=
== Indic Keyboard ==
https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== libindic - Android ==

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== ibus-braille module modifications ==

'''Project'''ː

This project will be to make improvements on the [[GSoC/2014/Project_ideas#Adding_Braille_Keyboard_layouts_for_Indian_Languages_to_m17n_Library | project]] that was successfully completed by a student under SMC. The remaining tasks areː
#Integrate Ibus-Braille with Liblouis
#Create Table editor for Liblouis
#Create a web version and host it.
#Add more indian languages to Liblouis
#Add facility to write direct braille Unicode characters
#Remove espeak dependency and make accessible via orca itself.

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Samuel Thibault

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - youpi on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

== Varnam based ==

=== Varnam Android Keyboard ===

'''Project''':

Add support for varnamproject into android and have a native keyboard like indic keyboard. It can be integrated into Indic keyboard or have it as a separate keyboard.

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Navaneeth K. N.

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=
== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

libindic project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of libindic framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==libindic Project Based==

===libindic Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing libindic infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to libindic without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with libindic to provide Webfonts support.

==== Provide REST like API for libindic ====

libindic provides JSONRPC API currently which is also utilized by the templates of framework. JSONRPC is not well supported in all languages and results in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here NIH code]. So we would like to provide REST like HTTP based API's for libindic and at the same time leave the current JSONRPC code untouched for backward compatibility reasons.

'''Objectives''':

* Develop module or use existing module to provide REST like API's
* API should support GET and POST. [http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html When to use GET?].

Many people have doubt on how the API should look like. We can give twitter API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api) as example
Sample API calls :
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/ASCII2Unicode
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/Unicode2ASCII
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
Generic:
GET/POST (http://api.silpa.org.in/module/function_name or http://silpa.org.in/api/module/function_name)
Parameters: function parameters
Response: JSON encoded return value from function

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

==== Integrating flask-webfonts extension with libindic ====

libindic used to have a Webfonts module for serving Indian language fonts as Webfonts for browsers. During GSOC 2013 it was separated as an extension to Flask framework which can be generally used with any Flask powered app. The current code can be found at [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts]. The module is not fine tuned yet so below are the objectives.

# The module is not yet fine tuned and using it will make other modules break. This needs to be fixed (Can be checked with 'webfonts' branch of libindic code on github.
# Write tests to check the functionalities.
# Adhere to Flask extension guidelines and submit the modules to Flask extensions directory.
# Write a tool which can take a directory containing fonts file or single font file and generate configuration file needed by the extension. (A possible such tool which is outdated can be found at [https://github.com/copyninja/fontinfo])
# Provide HTTP api's through flask extension which can expose the CSS for applications.

For all tasks above we expect documentation, test cases from the students as deliverable.

'''Complexity''' : Intermediate

'''Confirmed Mentors''' :

'''How to contact the mentors''':

'''Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org <preferred>

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''What the students will learn''':

# Writing applications using Flask
# Various Transliteration system knolwedge
# Webfonts knowledge and writing extensions for Flask
# Test drive development.

===Converting indic processing modules currently in libindic into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the libindic algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in libindic project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into libindic===

Create a libindic module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a libindic module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Varnam Based==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]]. Currently it support Hindi and Malayalam.

* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/faq FAQ]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs Documentation]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/contributing Contributors guide & ideas to work on]

Apart from the following ideas, you can propose your own idea.

===Programming language bindings & varnam-daemon===

Varnam is written on C which makes interoperability with other languages easy. There are language bindings available for `NodeJs` and `Ruby`. Supporting Varnam in multiple languages allows projects to use varnam easily to enable Indian language input.

To make using varnam from different languages easier, make a cross platform standalone process which uses `libvarnam` shared library and exposes a RPC API over network. This allows any programming language with a socket support can be used with libvarnam. This also makes language bindings fairly easy because they don't have to work with the native interoperability support. The protocol can be a simple text based protocol for all the commands that `libvarnam` supports.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': C

===Improvements to the REST API===

'''Project''':

This includes rewrite of the current implementation in `golang` and add support for WebSockets to improve the input experience. This also
includes making scripts that would ease embedding input on any webpage. All the changes done will go live on[1]

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of golang and C

'''What the students will learn''':

===Create an Android IME===

Varnam will be ported as a libindic module and it will be available on Android as part of the android SDK project which libindic has proposed. This idea is merged to the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014/Project_ideas#Android_SDK_for_Silpa libindic] project ideas.

===Enable varnam's suggestions system to be used from Inscript or any other input system===

Varnam has knowledge about lot of words. This idea proposes a method to use these words and provide suggestions for other input systems. Basically, in Varnam, the API call will be something like,

<code><pre>
varnam_get_suggestions (handle, "भारत");
</pre></code>

This will fetch all the suggestions which has the given prefix.

`varnam_get_suggestions` needs to keep track of the previous words and use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram n-gram] based dataset to filter the results. This should also learn the words back into the word corpus that varnam is using. Filtering suggestions won't be just a prefix search, but it will have knowledge about how text can be written in the target language and provide smart filtering. Searching in a large corpus and providing real-time suggestions makes this a challenging task.

Once this is implemented in `libvarnam`, it can be used in the ibus-engine.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Expertise required''': C, Unicode & encodings

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

=== Word corpus synchronization ===

'''Project''':

Create a cross-platform synchronization tool which can upload/download the word corpus from offline IMEs like varnam-ibus[2]. This helps to build the online words corpus easily.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in C/golang

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://www.varnamproject.com
* [2]: https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

GSoC/2016/Project ideas

2016-03-02T10:40:17Z

Jishnu7: /* Projects with unconfirmed mentors */

<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Baiju M ('''baijum''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sayamindu Das Gupta ('''unmadindu'''on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeesh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nandaja Varma ('''gem''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Praveen A ('''j4v4m4n''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Ershad K ('''ershad''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Samuel Thibault ('''youpi''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nishan Naseer ('''nishan''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/GSoC/2016#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list] of [http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam computing]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=
== Indic Keyboard ==
https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== libindic - Android ==

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== ibus-braille module modifications ==

'''Project'''ː

This project will be to make improvements on the [[GSoC/2014/Project_ideas#Adding_Braille_Keyboard_layouts_for_Indian_Languages_to_m17n_Library | project]] that was successfully completed by a student under SMC. The remaining tasks areː
#Integrate Ibus-Braille with Liblouis
#Create Table editor for Liblouis
#Create a web version and host it.
#Add more indian languages to Liblouis
#Add facility to write direct braille Unicode characters
#Remove espeak dependency and make accessible via orca itself.

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Samuel Thibault

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - youpi on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

== Varnam based ==

=== Varnam Android Keyboard ===

'''Project''':

Add support for varnamproject into android and have a native keyboard like indic keyboard. It can be integrated into Indic keyboard or have it as a separate keyboard.

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Navaneeth K. N.

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=

== libindic - Web ==

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Python

'''What the student will learn'''

== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

libindic project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of libindic framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==libindic Project Based==

===libindic Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing libindic infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to libindic without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with libindic to provide Webfonts support.

==== Provide REST like API for libindic ====

libindic provides JSONRPC API currently which is also utilized by the templates of framework. JSONRPC is not well supported in all languages and results in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here NIH code]. So we would like to provide REST like HTTP based API's for libindic and at the same time leave the current JSONRPC code untouched for backward compatibility reasons.

'''Objectives''':

* Develop module or use existing module to provide REST like API's
* API should support GET and POST. [http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html When to use GET?].

Many people have doubt on how the API should look like. We can give twitter API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api) as example
Sample API calls :
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/ASCII2Unicode
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/Unicode2ASCII
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
Generic:
GET/POST (http://api.silpa.org.in/module/function_name or http://silpa.org.in/api/module/function_name)
Parameters: function parameters
Response: JSON encoded return value from function

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

==== Integrating flask-webfonts extension with libindic ====

libindic used to have a Webfonts module for serving Indian language fonts as Webfonts for browsers. During GSOC 2013 it was separated as an extension to Flask framework which can be generally used with any Flask powered app. The current code can be found at [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts]. The module is not fine tuned yet so below are the objectives.

# The module is not yet fine tuned and using it will make other modules break. This needs to be fixed (Can be checked with 'webfonts' branch of libindic code on github.
# Write tests to check the functionalities.
# Adhere to Flask extension guidelines and submit the modules to Flask extensions directory.
# Write a tool which can take a directory containing fonts file or single font file and generate configuration file needed by the extension. (A possible such tool which is outdated can be found at [https://github.com/copyninja/fontinfo])
# Provide HTTP api's through flask extension which can expose the CSS for applications.

For all tasks above we expect documentation, test cases from the students as deliverable.

'''Complexity''' : Intermediate

'''Confirmed Mentors''' :

'''How to contact the mentors''':

'''Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org <preferred>

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''What the students will learn''':

# Writing applications using Flask
# Various Transliteration system knolwedge
# Webfonts knowledge and writing extensions for Flask
# Test drive development.

===Converting indic processing modules currently in libindic into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the libindic algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in libindic project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into libindic===

Create a libindic module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a libindic module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Varnam Based==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]]. Currently it support Hindi and Malayalam.

* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/faq FAQ]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs Documentation]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/contributing Contributors guide & ideas to work on]

Apart from the following ideas, you can propose your own idea.

===Programming language bindings & varnam-daemon===

Varnam is written on C which makes interoperability with other languages easy. There are language bindings available for `NodeJs` and `Ruby`. Supporting Varnam in multiple languages allows projects to use varnam easily to enable Indian language input.

To make using varnam from different languages easier, make a cross platform standalone process which uses `libvarnam` shared library and exposes a RPC API over network. This allows any programming language with a socket support can be used with libvarnam. This also makes language bindings fairly easy because they don't have to work with the native interoperability support. The protocol can be a simple text based protocol for all the commands that `libvarnam` supports.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': C

===Improvements to the REST API===

'''Project''':

This includes rewrite of the current implementation in `golang` and add support for WebSockets to improve the input experience. This also
includes making scripts that would ease embedding input on any webpage. All the changes done will go live on[1]

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of golang and C

'''What the students will learn''':

===Create an Android IME===

Varnam will be ported as a libindic module and it will be available on Android as part of the android SDK project which libindic has proposed. This idea is merged to the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014/Project_ideas#Android_SDK_for_Silpa libindic] project ideas.

===Enable varnam's suggestions system to be used from Inscript or any other input system===

Varnam has knowledge about lot of words. This idea proposes a method to use these words and provide suggestions for other input systems. Basically, in Varnam, the API call will be something like,

<code><pre>
varnam_get_suggestions (handle, "भारत");
</pre></code>

This will fetch all the suggestions which has the given prefix.

`varnam_get_suggestions` needs to keep track of the previous words and use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram n-gram] based dataset to filter the results. This should also learn the words back into the word corpus that varnam is using. Filtering suggestions won't be just a prefix search, but it will have knowledge about how text can be written in the target language and provide smart filtering. Searching in a large corpus and providing real-time suggestions makes this a challenging task.

Once this is implemented in `libvarnam`, it can be used in the ibus-engine.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Expertise required''': C, Unicode & encodings

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

=== Word corpus synchronization ===

'''Project''':

Create a cross-platform synchronization tool which can upload/download the word corpus from offline IMEs like varnam-ibus[2]. This helps to build the online words corpus easily.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in C/golang

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://www.varnamproject.com
* [2]: https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

GSoC/2016/Project ideas

2016-03-02T10:39:49Z

Jishnu7: /* Projects with confirmed mentors */ removing libindic web

GSoC/2016/Project ideas

2016-03-02T07:46:03Z

Jishnu7: /* Projects with confirmed mentors */ boilerplate for indic keyboard and libindic

<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Baiju M ('''baijum''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sayamindu Das Gupta ('''unmadindu'''on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeesh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nandaja Varma ('''gem''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Praveen A ('''j4v4m4n''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Ershad K ('''ershad''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Samuel Thibault ('''youpi''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nishan Naseer ('''nishan''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/GSoC/2016#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list] of [http://smc.org.in Swathanthra Malayalam computing]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=
== Indic Keyboard ==
https://gitlab.com/smc/indic-keyboard/issues or https://github.com/smc/Indic-Keyboard/issues

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== libindic - Web ==

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Python

'''What the student will learn'''

== libindic - Android ==

'''Project'''ː

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 on #smc-project or #silpa on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java / Android,

'''What the student will learn'''

== ibus-braille module modifications ==

'''Project'''ː

This project will be to make improvements on the [[GSoC/2014/Project_ideas#Adding_Braille_Keyboard_layouts_for_Indian_Languages_to_m17n_Library | project]] that was successfully completed by a student under SMC. The remaining tasks areː
#Integrate Ibus-Braille with Liblouis
#Create Table editor for Liblouis
#Create a web version and host it.
#Add more indian languages to Liblouis
#Add facility to write direct braille Unicode characters
#Remove espeak dependency and make accessible via orca itself.

'''Complexity''':

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Samuel Thibault

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - youpi on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

== Varnam based ==

=== Varnam Android Keyboard ===

'''Project''':

Add support for varnamproject into android and have a native keyboard like indic keyboard. It can be integrated into Indic keyboard or have it as a separate keyboard.

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Navaneeth K. N.

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the student will learn'''

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=
== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

libindic project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of libindic framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''':

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==libindic Project Based==

===libindic Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing libindic infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to libindic without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with libindic to provide Webfonts support.

==== Provide REST like API for libindic ====

libindic provides JSONRPC API currently which is also utilized by the templates of framework. JSONRPC is not well supported in all languages and results in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here NIH code]. So we would like to provide REST like HTTP based API's for libindic and at the same time leave the current JSONRPC code untouched for backward compatibility reasons.

'''Objectives''':

* Develop module or use existing module to provide REST like API's
* API should support GET and POST. [http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html When to use GET?].

Many people have doubt on how the API should look like. We can give twitter API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api) as example
Sample API calls :
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/ASCII2Unicode
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/Unicode2ASCII
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
Generic:
GET/POST (http://api.silpa.org.in/module/function_name or http://silpa.org.in/api/module/function_name)
Parameters: function parameters
Response: JSON encoded return value from function

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

==== Integrating flask-webfonts extension with libindic ====

libindic used to have a Webfonts module for serving Indian language fonts as Webfonts for browsers. During GSOC 2013 it was separated as an extension to Flask framework which can be generally used with any Flask powered app. The current code can be found at [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts]. The module is not fine tuned yet so below are the objectives.

# The module is not yet fine tuned and using it will make other modules break. This needs to be fixed (Can be checked with 'webfonts' branch of libindic code on github.
# Write tests to check the functionalities.
# Adhere to Flask extension guidelines and submit the modules to Flask extensions directory.
# Write a tool which can take a directory containing fonts file or single font file and generate configuration file needed by the extension. (A possible such tool which is outdated can be found at [https://github.com/copyninja/fontinfo])
# Provide HTTP api's through flask extension which can expose the CSS for applications.

For all tasks above we expect documentation, test cases from the students as deliverable.

'''Complexity''' : Intermediate

'''Confirmed Mentors''' :

'''How to contact the mentors''':

'''Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org <preferred>

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''What the students will learn''':

# Writing applications using Flask
# Various Transliteration system knolwedge
# Webfonts knowledge and writing extensions for Flask
# Test drive development.

===Converting indic processing modules currently in libindic into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the libindic algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in libindic project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into libindic===

Create a libindic module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a libindic module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Varnam Based==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]]. Currently it support Hindi and Malayalam.

* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/faq FAQ]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs Documentation]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/contributing Contributors guide & ideas to work on]

Apart from the following ideas, you can propose your own idea.

===Programming language bindings & varnam-daemon===

Varnam is written on C which makes interoperability with other languages easy. There are language bindings available for `NodeJs` and `Ruby`. Supporting Varnam in multiple languages allows projects to use varnam easily to enable Indian language input.

To make using varnam from different languages easier, make a cross platform standalone process which uses `libvarnam` shared library and exposes a RPC API over network. This allows any programming language with a socket support can be used with libvarnam. This also makes language bindings fairly easy because they don't have to work with the native interoperability support. The protocol can be a simple text based protocol for all the commands that `libvarnam` supports.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': C

===Improvements to the REST API===

'''Project''':

This includes rewrite of the current implementation in `golang` and add support for WebSockets to improve the input experience. This also
includes making scripts that would ease embedding input on any webpage. All the changes done will go live on[1]

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of golang and C

'''What the students will learn''':

===Create an Android IME===

Varnam will be ported as a libindic module and it will be available on Android as part of the android SDK project which libindic has proposed. This idea is merged to the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014/Project_ideas#Android_SDK_for_Silpa libindic] project ideas.

===Enable varnam's suggestions system to be used from Inscript or any other input system===

Varnam has knowledge about lot of words. This idea proposes a method to use these words and provide suggestions for other input systems. Basically, in Varnam, the API call will be something like,

<code><pre>
varnam_get_suggestions (handle, "भारत");
</pre></code>

This will fetch all the suggestions which has the given prefix.

`varnam_get_suggestions` needs to keep track of the previous words and use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram n-gram] based dataset to filter the results. This should also learn the words back into the word corpus that varnam is using. Filtering suggestions won't be just a prefix search, but it will have knowledge about how text can be written in the target language and provide smart filtering. Searching in a large corpus and providing real-time suggestions makes this a challenging task.

Once this is implemented in `libvarnam`, it can be used in the ibus-engine.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Expertise required''': C, Unicode & encodings

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

=== Word corpus synchronization ===

'''Project''':

Create a cross-platform synchronization tool which can upload/download the word corpus from offline IMEs like varnam-ibus[2]. This helps to build the online words corpus easily.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in C/golang

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://www.varnamproject.com
* [2]: https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' :

'''How to contact the mentor''':

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-03-09T11:27:14Z

Jishnu7: /* Adding Braille Keyboard layouts for Indian Languages to m17n Library */ anilkumar is the mentor

<center>
 <big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>
</center>

=Potential Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Baiju M ('''baijum''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Praveen A ('''j4v4m4n''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeeshknambiar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Hrishikesh K.B ('''stultus''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anilkumar K V ('''anilkumar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sajjad Anwar ('''geohacker''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Deepa V Gopinath ('''deepagopinath''' on irc.freenode.net)
# jain Basil ('''jainbasil''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Ershad K ('''ershad''' on irc.freenode.net
# Navaneeth ('''nkn__''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nishan Naseer ('''nishan''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Nandaja Varma ('''gem''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2014=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2014#FAQ FAQ]
* If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/student-projects-smc.org.in student projects mailing list]

=Projects with confirmed mentors=

== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==

'''Project''':

SILPA project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of SILPA framework.

The project is not about coding an existing algorithm, but to develop and implement an algorithm.

Hunspell's limitations can be understood from [[User:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D/HunspellConversation| this conversation]] we had with the author of Hunspell in 2008

Homework to do before submitting applications:
# Use Hunspell in any Indian language like Malayalam for spell correction in editors or word processors and understand the limitations
# Study the nature of inflection and agglutination in Indian languages, read existing documents on this(ask for documents too) and note down your observations
# Study Hunspell and other spellcheckers to see how this problem is addressed
# Understand how a spell checker works. How to write a spellchecker from scratch?
# Come up with a plan about addressing the issue.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''': Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''': Santhosh Thottingal

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - santhosh on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language and complete the homework as listed above.

'''What the student will learn''':

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==

'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''More Details''': A partially working patch by Rajeesh for MKIV lua code is available. ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]'''

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - rajeeshknambiar on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''What the students will learn''':

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

'''Project''':

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Background Reading'''
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore
* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman
* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial
* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour
* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Deepa P Gopinath

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - deepagopinath on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==SILPA Project Based==

===SILPA Project Improvements===

'''Project''':

This is set of ideas needed to improve the existing SILPA infrastructure. We have decided following tasks as part of this project

# Provide REST API to SILPA without disturbing existing JSONRPC API
# Improve the Transliteration module
# Integrate [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts Flask Webfonts] extension with SILPA to provide Webfonts support.

==== Provide REST like API for SILPA ====

SILPA provides JSONRPC API currently which is also utilized by the templates of framework. JSONRPC is not well supported in all languages and results in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here NIH code]. So we would like to provide REST like HTTP based API's for SILPA and at the same time leave the current JSONRPC code untouched for backward compatibility reasons.

'''Objectives''':

* Develop module or use existing module to provide REST like API's
* API should support GET and POST. [http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html When to use GET?].

Many people have doubt on how the API should look like. We can give twitter API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api) as example
Sample API calls :
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/ASCII2Unicode
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
POST api.silpa.org.in/payyans/Unicode2ASCII
Paramets: text, font
Response: JSON data
-------------------------------------------------------------
Generic:
GET/POST (http://api.silpa.org.in/module/function_name or http://silpa.org.in/api/module/function_name)
Parameters: function parameters
Response: JSON encoded return value from function

==== Improve Transliteration module ====

We have a Transliteration module which supports transliteration from any Indic language to other Indic language and also support to English to Indic and Indic to English transliteration. Also we support IPA and ISO15919 transliteration system. But the module isn't in perfect shape and has lot of bugs. With this idea we would like to improve the following parts

# Improve cross indic language transliteration system. Currently only Malayalam and Kannada are working without any external language support, all other Indian languages are first transliterated to Malayalam and then transliterated to target Indic language. We want to remove this cycle from source -> Malayalam -> target.
# English to IPA transliteration is currently broken and this needs to be fixed. See [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/3 IPA transliteration bug].
# Once the IPA transliteration issue above is fixed, imporve English to Indic transliteration system using IPA. Currently English to Indic transliteration system is done using CMU Sphinx dictionary which is having limited set of words which inturn limits the output of English to Indic transliteration system.
# Improve IS015919 to Indic transliteration system see [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/Transliteration/issues/4 IS015919 to Indic transliteration].

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

==== Integrating flask-webfonts extension with SILPA ====

SILPA used to have a Webfonts module for serving Indian language fonts as Webfonts for browsers. During GSOC 2013 it was separated as an extension to Flask framework which can be generally used with any Flask powered app. The current code can be found at [https://github.com/Project-SILPA/flask-webfonts]. The module is not fine tuned yet so below are the objectives.

# The module is not yet fine tuned and using it will make other modules break. This needs to be fixed (Can be checked with 'webfonts' branch of SILPA code on github.
# Write tests to check the functionalities.
# Adhere to Flask extension guidelines and submit the modules to Flask extensions directory.
# Write a tool which can take a directory containing fonts file or single font file and generate configuration file needed by the extension. (A possible such tool which is outdated can be found at [https://github.com/copyninja/fontinfo])
# Provide HTTP api's through flask extension which can expose the CSS for applications.

For all tasks above we expect documentation, test cases from the students as deliverable.

'''Complexity''' : Intermediate

'''Confirmed Mentors''' : Vasudev Kamath, Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentors''': IRC -
*Vasudev Kamath - copyninja on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode
*Jishnu Mohan - jishnu7 on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode

'''Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org <preferred>

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''What the students will learn''':

# Writing applications using Flask
# Various Transliteration system knolwedge
# Webfonts knowledge and writing extensions for Flask
# Test drive development.

===Android SDK for Silpa===

'''Project''':

Port possible Silpa modules to java and create SDK so that other developers can use this for their apps. Modules like Indic Render, Transliteration, Payyas has really good potential in android because of the fragmentation exists in Android and lack for proper Indic support. This SDK will help developers to support their Indic app in wide range of android devices.

'''Objectives''':
<Please note this idea is for a SDK, not an app or just a java port>

*All modules need to be ported to java so that it can be used inside an Android Project.
*Other applications should be able to use this Silpa library to easy integrate features (as a SDK) from our modules. Eg.
**Transliteration - Developer can specify a text input inside the application needs transliteration, and our SDK should take care of the transliteration process whenever user inputs text to that field.
**Render module - Detect whether necessary font is available in the system, if it is not, render text as image and replace text with this.
**All modules can be explained like this.
*Investigate whether image rendering part of render module can be done in device, inside application itself. Few ways to implement that are
**Compiling cairo/pango with ndk
**Compiling Harffbuzz from AOSP tree with ndk
**Based on the result of rendering module investigation, we can device on whether to use server side rendering or not.
**Pack popular fonts with the SDK, Use it to display text if device doesn't have required font. (there are few hacks to get better rendering in older versions of android). Developer should be able to force rendering using packaged font, to get consistency across devices.

<Better to prepare SDK with helper than preparing application itself. SDK aka library>

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentors''' : Hrishikesh K. B, Jishnu Mohan, Aashik S

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC -
*Hrishikesh K B - stultus on on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode
*Jishnu Mohan - jishnu7 on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode
*Aashik S - irumbumoideen on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Java, Android, Python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into javascript modules library===

'''Project''':

Port some of the silpa algorithms to node modules. Several modules, alogorithms in SILPA project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done javascript too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in javascript.

Proposed javascript module pattern is https://github.com/umdjs/umd

Student proposals should have a list of alogorithms planning to port, planned demo applications, planned documentation details, and publishing details(Example: npm registry)

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Santhosh Thottingal, Jishnu Mohan

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - jishnu7 santhosh on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': javascript, python

'''What the students will learn''':

===Integrate Varnam into Silpa===

Create a Silpa module which hosts [http://www.varnamproject.com varnam]. This includes making a python port for libvarnam and making a Silpa module which uses the python port.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project and #silpa on Freenode

''' Mailing List''': silpa-discuss@nongnu.org

'''Expertise required''': C, Python

==Language filter for diaspora==

Diaspora is a Free Software, federated social networking platform. Diaspora users post in many languages. When people use more than one language in their posts, it is inconvenient for people who don't understand a language. This task is to tag every post with languages used in the post, ideally detected automatically, but with an option to override it. Once each post has a language tag, people should be able to choose their preferred language and posts in other languages should be hidden by default. Also provide an option to translate posts and comments.

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentors''' : Pirate Praveen, Ershad K

'''How to contact the mentors''': IRC
*Pirate Praveen - j4v4m4n on #smc-project on Freenode
*Ershad K - ershad on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

==Varnam Based==

Varnam is a cross-platform predictive transliterator for Indian languages. It works mostly like Google's transliterate, but shows key differences in the way word tokenization is done. It has a learning system built in which allows Varnam to make smart predictions.

There are varnam clients available as [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/varnam-transliteration-base/ Firefox]] & [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/varnam-ime/abcfkeabpcanobhdmcmdabejaamephaf Chrome addon] and an [https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/source/d939adf50024013902c27310c03ef21a9210cdcb IBus engine].

To try out Varnam, navigate to [http://varnamproject.com/editor[http://varnamproject.com/editor]]. Currently it support Hindi and Malayalam.

* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/faq FAQ]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs Documentation]
* [http://www.varnamproject.com/docs/contributing Contributors guide & ideas to work on]

Apart from the following ideas, you can propose your own idea.

===Programming language bindings & varnam-daemon===

Varnam is written on C which makes interoperability with other languages easy. There are language bindings available for `NodeJs` and `Ruby`. Supporting Varnam in multiple languages allows projects to use varnam easily to enable Indian language input.

To make using varnam from different languages easier, make a cross platform standalone process which uses `libvarnam` shared library and exposes a RPC API over network. This allows any programming language with a socket support can be used with libvarnam. This also makes language bindings fairly easy because they don't have to work with the native interoperability support. The protocol can be a simple text based protocol for all the commands that `libvarnam` supports.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': C

===Improvements to the REST API===

'''Project''':

This includes rewrite of the current implementation in `golang` and add support for WebSockets to improve the input experience. This also
includes making scripts that would ease embedding input on any webpage. All the changes done will go live on[1]

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of golang and C

'''What the students will learn''':

===Improve the learning system===

'''Project''':

The main goal of this is to improve how varnam tokenizes when learning words. Today, when a word is learned, varnam takes all the possible prefixes into account and learn all of them to improve future suggestions. But sometimes, this is not enough to predict good suggestions. An improvement is suggested which will try to infer the base form of the word under learning.

Varnam has a learning system built-in which can learn words and it can also learn possible other ways to write a word. Consider the following example.

<code>
<pre>
learn("भारत") = [bharat, bhaarath, bharath]
transliterate("bharat") = भारत
transliterate("bhaarath") = भारत
transliterate("bharath") = भारत
</pre>
</code>

Varnam also learns a word's prefixes so that it can produce better predictions for any word which has the same prefix. So in this case, with just learning the word "भारत", varnam can predict "bharateey" = "भारतीय".

The proposed idea talks about making this learn better. One example is infer the word "भारत" when learning भारतीय. Something like a porter stemmer implementation but integrated into the varnam framework so that
new language support can be added easily.

This idea also includes improving concurrency support for learn. Currently, learn can't be called concurrently because of the restrictions on the SQLite. So every learn has to be sequentially done. This needs to be improved by having a simple internal queue from which words gets queued when the learn is busy.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in C, Ruby (basics)

'''What the students will learn''':

===Create an Android IME===

Android has an extensible input method system. Use that to make a IME which uses varnam internally. This includes, getting `libvarnam` compiled on android first.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Expertise required''': C, Android, Java

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

===Enable varnam's suggestions system to be used from Inscript or any other input system===

Varnam has knowledge about lot of words. This idea proposes a method to use these words and provide suggestions for other input systems. Basically, in Varnam, the API call will be something like,

<code><pre>
varnam_get_suggestions (handle, "भारत");
</pre></code>

This will fetch all the suggestions which has the given prefix.

`varnam_get_suggestions` needs to keep track of the previous words and use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram n-gram] based dataset to filter the results. This should also learn the words back into the word corpus that varnam is using. Filtering suggestions won't be just a prefix search, but it will have knowledge about how text can be written in the target language and provide smart filtering. Searching in a large corpus and providing real-time suggestions makes this a challenging task.

Once this is implemented in `libvarnam`, it can be used in the ibus-engine.

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

'''Expertise required''': C, Unicode & encodings

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

=== Word corpus synchronization ===

'''Project''':

Create a cross-platform synchronization tool which can upload/download the word corpus from offline IMEs like varnam-ibus[2]. This helps to build the online words corpus easily.

'''Complexity''' : Medium

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Navaneeth K N

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - nkn__ on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in C/golang

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://www.varnamproject.com
* [2]: https://gitorious.org/varnamproject/libvarnam-ibus/

==Adding Braille Keyboard layouts for Indian Languages to m17n Library==

'''Project''':

Project is building support for Bharati Braille keyboard layouts in GNU/Linux systemes. Bharati Braille standard is the official Braille standard in India. A regular QWERTY keyboard is used for data entry. SDF-JKL keys are used for six dots of Braille. This support need to be built as m17n layouts. This will enable visually challenged people who studied braille layouts to use GNU/Linux systems easily with the help of Audio feedback from TTS

'''More Details'''
* http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/disabilities/bh_brl.php
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharati_Braille
* http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/

'''Complexity''' :

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Anilkumar K V

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - anilkumar on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''':

'''What the students will learn''':

==Grandham ==

=== Adding MARC21 import/export feature in Grandham ===

We need a feature in Grandham to import and parse data from MARC21 documents. We should also be able to export existing data in MARC21.

'''Complexity''' : High

'''Confirmed Mentor''' : Ershad K

'''How to contact the mentor''': IRC - ershad on #smc-project on Freenode

'''Expertise required''': Knowledge in Ruby/Ruby on Rails

'''What the students will learn''':

* [1]: http://dev.grandham.org
* [2]: https://github.com/smc/grandham

=Projects with unconfirmed mentors=

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-02-25T18:50:27Z

Jishnu7: adding mentors to silpa based tasks.

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-02-23T06:57:11Z

Jishnu7: /* SILPA BASED */ forgot to add python

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-02-23T06:56:09Z

Jishnu7: /* SILPA BASED */

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-02-23T06:55:24Z

Jishnu7: /* SILPA BASED */ adding Silpa SDK

GSoC/2014/Project ideas

2014-02-23T06:51:08Z

Jishnu7: /* SILPA BASED */

വാര്‍ഷികപൊതുപരിപാടി 2013/IRC 25-08-2013

2013-08-27T07:07:57Z

Jishnu7: text formatting

<pre>
വാര്‍ഷിക പൊതുപരിപാടിയെ പറ്റി ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യാന്‍ 25-08-2013നു് കൂടിയ ആദ്യ IRC മീറ്റിന്റെ ലോഗ്.

8:36 PM <manojkmohan> അജണ്ട, ഒക്ടോബറിലെ വാര്‍ഷിക മീറ്റ്

8:36 PM <•stultus> അപ്പൊ വാര്‍ഷിക പൊതു പരിപാടി.

8:36 PM <•anivar> വിക്കി ടോക്ക് പേജില്‍ ഇതു വരെ നടന്ന ചര്‍ച്ചകളുടെ ചുരുക്കമുണ്ട്
8:36 PM <manojkmohan> മൂന്ന് ദിവസത്തെ പരിപാടിയാണ്. ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 13,14,15 തിയ്യതികളില്‍ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി ഹാള്‍ ബുക്ക് ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്
8:37 PM <tachyons> http://wiki.smc.org.in/AnnualMeet2013
8:37 PM <•anivar> 13 ഞായറാഴ്ചയാണ്
8:37 PM <manojkmohan> മഹാനവമിയും
8:37 PM <•anivar> 14 തിങ്കള്‍ വിജയദശമി . പൂജ മുടക്കം
8:37 PM <•anivar> 15 വര്‍ക്കിങ്ങ് ഡേ . എന്നാല്‍ 16 ബക്രീദ് ആയതിനാല്‍ മിക്കവരും ലീവെടുക്കുന്ന ദിവസം
8:39 PM <•anivar> സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് ഒരു പൊതുപരിപാടി നടത്തിയിട്ടു കാലം കുറെയായി
8:39 PM <jaisuvyas> ഉം.
8:39 PM <tachyons> .
8:39 PM <•stultus> anivar, ഏതാണ്ട് എത്ര പേരെയാണ് ഉദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത് ? ഓഡിയന്‍സ്
8:39 PM <•anivar> 2007 ലെ സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ ഫ്രീഡം ഡെയും 2008 ലെ കെഡീ റിലീസ് പാര്‍ട്ടിയും ഒക്കെ കഴിഞ്ഞ് നമ്മള്‍ വലിയ പരിപാടികളൊന്നും നടത്തീട്ടില്ല
8:40 PM <•anivar> ഈ വര്‍ഷത്തെ മറ്റൊരു പ്രത്യേകത ഇതു് നമ്മുടെ 12 ആം വര്‍ഷം ആണെന്നതാണു്
8:40 PM <manojkmohan> 2007ലല്ലേ തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ ടൗണ്‍ഹാളില്‍ ഒരു നല്ല ഇവന്റ് നടന്നത്. ഞാനത് പത്രത്തില്‍ വായിച്ചറിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു.
8:40 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, അതെ
8:40 PM <tachyons> ഇതിന്റെ irc ലോഗ്സ് ഉണ്ടാകുമോ
8:41 PM <manojkmohan> tachyons, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും
8:41 PM <•stultus> tachyons, ഉണ്ടാവും
8:41 PM <•anivar> അന്നത്തെ ജിസോക്ക് പ്രൊജക്റ്റുകളുടെ റിലീസ് അടക്കമുള്ള പരിപാടിയായിരുന്നു
8:41 PM <aneeshnl> Hi
8:41 PM <manojkmohan> aneeshnl, സ്വാഗതം
8:41 PM <•anivar> ഈ വര്‍ഷം എന്നതു് ഒരുതരത്തില്‍ പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ ഒരു വ്യാഴവട്ടത്തിന്റെ ആഘോഷമാണു്
8:41 PM <aneeshnl> ലോഗ് തരാമോ...?
8:41 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> wiki seems to be down at atm
8:41 PM <aneeshnl> manojkmohan,
8:42 PM <•anivar> aneeshnl, ask someone offline
8:42 PM <manojkmohan> aneeshnl, തുടങ്ങിയിട്ടേ ഉള്ളൂ
8:42 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, We need to move wiki to some other server . My server is too slow these days
8:43 PM <•anivar> നമുക്ക് ഈ വര്‍ഷം പരിപാടി നടത്താന്‍ മൂന്നു വഴികളുണ്ട് .
8:43 PM <tachyons> 503 in wiki
8:43 PM <•anivar> 1. വലിയ ഒരു പരിപാടി .
8:43 PM <•anivar> tachyons, Leave that for the time being
8:43 PM <aneeshnl> log കിട്ടി
8:44 PM <•anivar> 2. ചെറിയ ഒരു ഒരു പൊതുപരിപാടി
8:44 PM <•anivar> 3. വളരെ വലിയ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെയും 12 വര്‍ഷത്തിന്റെ ആഘോഷമെന്ന രീതിയിലുള്ള പരിപാടി
8:45 PM <•anivar> ഏതായാലും ജിസോക്ക് പ്രൊജക്റ്റുകളുടെ പ്രസന്റേഷനടക്കമുള്ള കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ഇതില്‍ വരണം
8:45 PM <•anivar> ഒരു പകല്‍ നമ്മുടെ സൊസൈറ്റി മീറ്റിങ്ങിനും വേണം
8:45 PM <•anivar> സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി ഹാള്‍ 700 പേര്‍ക്കിരിക്കാം
8:46 PM <manojkmohan> 14ന് രണ്ട് ചെറിയ ഹാളുകള്‍ കൂടി ബ്ലോക്ക് ചെയ്തിട്ടുണ്ട്
8:46 PM <tachyons> വലിയ എന്നു വെച്ചാല്‍ എത്ര വലുത് ( I mean targeted audience )
8:47 PM <•anivar> tachyons, 700 പേര്‍ എന്നു പറഞ്ഞല്ലോ
8:47 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, അതായതു് വിദ്യാരംഭ ദിവസം സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി കാമ്പസീലെ എല്ലാ ഹാളും നമ്മുടെതാണു്
8:47 PM <manojkmohan> അതെ.
8:47 PM <tachyons> delay in typing, sorry
8:47 PM <SoorajKenoth> വലിപ്പത്തേക്കാളും പരിപാടിയുടെ രൂപം പറയൂ
8:47 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, 700 തന്നെയല്ലേ
8:47 PM <manojkmohan> മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിനു പുതിയൊരു വിദ്യാരംഭം
8:47 PM <manojkmohan> :)
8:47 PM <•anivar> SoorajKenoth, പരിപാടിയുടെ രൂപം തീരുമാനിക്കാനാണല്ലോ ഈ മീറ്റിങ്ങ്
8:48 PM <manojkmohan> 700 എനിക്ക് ഉറപ്പില്ല.
8:48 PM <manojkmohan> വഴിയേ അപ്ഡേറ്റ് ചെയ്യാം
8:48 PM <SoorajKenoth> Anivar, എന്നാലും മൂന്ന് ഘട്ടത്തിലും ഒരു ലക്ഷ്യം വേണല്ലോ?
8:48 PM <•anivar> SoorajKenoth, മൂന്നു വഴികളാണ് ,. ഘട്ടമല്ല. ഏതു തരത്തില്‍ നടത്തണമെന്നു തീരുമാനിക്കേണ്ടതു് നമ്മളാണു്
8:49 PM <jaisuvyas> നമുക്കിതൊരു വലിയ പരിപാടി തന്നെയാക്കിക്കൂടെ? തടസ്സമെന്തെങ്കിലുമുണ്ടോ?
8:49 PM <manojkmohan> എന്റെ മനസ്സില്‍ തോന്നിയത് വിക്കിയിലെ ഇവന്റ് പേജിന്റെ സംവാദം താളില്‍ എഴുതിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.
8:49 PM <balasankarc> പാരലല്‍ ആയി രണ്ടു പരിപാടികളെങ്കിലും നടത്തുകയാണെങ്കില്‍, പരിപാടികളുടെ എണ്ണം അത്യാവശ്യം നല്ല നിലയില്‍ എത്തിക്കാം..
8:49 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, വിക്കി ഡൌണാണ്
8:50 PM <manojkmohan> anivar, oh
8:50 PM <•anivar> ഒക്റ്റോബര്‍ ഒരു തരത്തില്‍ നല്ല സമയമാണ് . നവംബറിലെ സര്‍ക്കാര്‍ ആഘോഷങ്ങള്‍ക്കു മുന്‍പുള്ള സമയം
8:50 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, വ്യക്തമാക്കാമോ
8:50 PM <•anivar> മനസ്സിലായില്ല
8:50 PM <•stultus> അതെ.
8:51 PM <balasankarc> anivar, രണ്ടു ഹാള്‍ ഉണ്ടെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞില്ലേ... ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ഒന്നില്‍ എന്തെങ്കിലും വര്‍ക്ക്ഷോപ്പ് നടത്തുമ്പോള്‍, മറ്റേതില്‍ ഒരു എക്സ്പോ നടത്താം... അങ്ങനെ..
8:51 PM <manojkmohan> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KcfC4tU0JEoJ:wiki.smc.org.in/Talk:AnnualMeet2013&client=ubuntu&hl=en&gl=in&strip=1
8:51 PM <SoorajKenoth> ആകെ മൊത്തം ഒന്നും മനസ്സിലായില്ല. സെക്രട്ടേറിയേറ്റ് ഉപരോധം പോലെ ആവുമോ?
8:51 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, ഒരു ഹാളും രണ്ട് കൊച്ചു ഹാളുകളും .
8:51 PM <ershad> SoorajKenoth: :D
8:52 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അതിന്റെ ആവശ്യം ആ ദിവസം ആ കാമ്പസ്സ് മൊത്തമായിന് നമുക്കു കിട്ടാനാണു്
8:52 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഓക്കെ..
8:54 PM <•anivar> പരിപാടിയെപ്പറ്റി മനോജുമായും പ്രവിണുമായും സംസാരിച്ചതില്‍ നിന്നും എന്റെ മനസ്സിലുള്ള രൂപം ഇതാണ്
8:54 PM <jishnu7_> എത്ര പേരെ പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുണം ?
8:54 PM <balasankarc> anivar, അങ്ങനെ ആണെങ്കില്‍, ഏറ്റവും outreach/publicity കിട്ടുന്ന പരിപാടികള്‍ അന്ന് വെക്കണം..
8:55 PM <•anivar> jishnu7_, കഴിയുന്നത്ര പേരെ എത്തിക്കാനാവണം .
8:55 PM <tachyons> ഇത് മനസ്സിലായില്ല <<2) ഹെല്‍പ്പ് ഡെസ്ക്ക് (പൊതുജനങ്ങളുടെ സാങ്കേതിക സംശയങ്ങള്‍ തീര്‍ക്കാന്‍) ഇതിനായി പ്രാദേശിക യൂസര്‍ ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളുടെ സഹായം തേടാമെന്ന് കരുതുന്നു>>
8:55 PM <•anivar> മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ ഒരു വ്യാഴവട്ടക്കാലം എന്ന രീതിയില്‍ ഇതുവരെ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിനു സംഭാവന ചെയ്ത ഏവരെയും പരിപാടിക്കെത്തിക്കാനും റെക്കഗ്നൈസ് ചെയ്യാനും
8:55 PM <•anivar> കഴിയണം
8:55 PM <jishnu7_> 2/3 ഹാളുകള്‍ എടുക്കുംമ്പോള്‍ അതിനനുസരിച്ച് ഓരോ ഹാളിലും ആളുകള്‍ വേണ്ടേ ?
8:56 PM <manojkmohan> tachyons, കോളേജുകളിലെ FOSS ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളാണ് ഉദ്ദ്യേശിച്ചത്
8:56 PM <jishnu7_> aneeshnl, എന്നിരുന്നാലും ഒരു ഊഹം വേണ്ടേ ?
8:57 PM <aneeshnl> jishnu7_, ഞാനൊന്നും പറഞ്ഞില്ല
8:57 PM <•anivar> jishnu7_, ആ രണ്ടുഹാള്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കണമെന്നു നിര്‍ബന്ധമില്ല. അതു കൂടി എടുത്താല്‍ സാഹിത്യാക്കാദമി കാമ്പസിനു പുറത്ത് കമാനമൊക്കെ വെക്കാനുള്ള അവകാശവും വൈകീട്ടു വേണമെങ്കില്‍ പരി
8:57 PM <•anivar> പാടി ഓപ്പണ്‍ എയറില്‍ നടത്താനുള്ള അവസരവും ഒക്കെ കിട്ടും
8:57 PM <jishnu7_> aneeshnl, ?
8:57 PM <manojkmohan> ഒരു 500 കണക്കാക്കൂ
8:57 PM <•anivar> അതിനാല്‍ ഒരു ദിവസം മാത്രമേ എടുത്തിട്ടുള്ളൂ
8:58 PM <balasankarc> നമ്മള്‍ സ്റ്റേറ്റ് ലെവല്‍ പരിപാടിയല്ലേ‌ ഉദ്ദേശ്ശിക്കുന്നത്... 500 തരക്കേടില്ല...
8:58 PM <•stultus> ഒകെ
8:58 PM <•anivar> അതുപോലെ നമുക്കു നമ്മുടെ നേട്ടങ്ങള്‍ പ്രൊജക്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാനും കഴിയണം
9:00 PM <tachyons> ചെറിയ മല്‍സരങ്ങളും വേണം
9:01 PM <•anivar> നമുക്ക് ഇതു ടെക്നിക്കല്‍ ഇവന്റുകളുടെ രീതിയില്‍ മാത്രം നടത്തിയാല്‍ പോര
9:01 PM <•anivar> കാരണം ഭാഷയും സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യയും ഹൈലൈറ്റ് ചെയ്യാനാവണം
9:01 PM <•stultus> +1
9:01 PM <ershad> +1
9:01 PM <jaisuvyas> ഉം.
9:02 PM <SoorajKenoth> I have a small doubt, who are the target audience? what is their stake?
9:02 PM <balasankarc> ആദ്യത്തെ ദിവസം ഇൻട്രൊഡക്റ്ററി സെഷൻ ആയിരിക്കുമല്ലോ... മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ ചരിത്രം - ഒരവലോകനം, മലയാളം ടൈപ്പിങ്ങ് പരിശീലനം, ഇങ്ങനത്തെ പരിപാടികളൊക്കെ ആ ദിവസം ആà
9:02 PM <balasankarc> കാമല്ലോ...
9:02 PM <tachyons> part time competitions ആണ് ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത് , അല്ലാതെ അതിനു പ്രതേകം സമയം കാണണം എന്നല്ല
9:02 PM <jishnu7_> baijum, ?
9:02 PM <jishnu7_> balasankarc, ??
9:03 PM <balasankarc> jishnu7_, എന്താ??
9:04 PM <manojkmohan> SoorajKenoth, മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നവര്‍, പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കാന്‍ താല്പര്യമുള്ളവര്‍, കോളേജ്-സ്കൂള്‍ വിദ്യാര്‍ഥികള്‍, സാഹിത്യ-സാംസ്കാരിക രംഗങ്ങളില്‍ പ്à´
9:04 PM <manojkmohan> വര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നവര്‍, മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറില്‍ ഉപയോഗിക്കാനറിയാത്ത സാധാരണക്കാര്‍
9:04 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അങ്ങനെ സെഷനൊക്കെ വേണം . അതു മുമ്പു പറഞ്ഞപോലെ ഇതുവരെ സംഭാവന ചെയ്തവരെ ബഹുമാനിക്കുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ അതോടെ കഴിയും
9:05 PM <tachyons> @മനോജ് : ഇതേതു ഭാഷ
9:05 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, ആദ്യദിനം കാര്യമായി കൂട്ടണ്ട . ആ പകല്‍ നമ്മുടെ സൊസൈറ്റി ജനറല്‍ ബോഡിക്കായി മാറ്റിവെക്കുന്നതാവും നല്ലതെന്നു തോന്നുന്നു
9:05 PM <manojkmohan> tachyons, സ്ക്രീന്‍ ഷോട്ട് വേണോ, എനിക്ക് വായിക്കാന്‍ പ്രശ്നമില്ലല്ലോ
9:06 PM <•anivar> മഹാനവമി ദിവസം പത്രങ്ങള്‍ അവധിയാണു്. അതിനാല്‍ റിപ്പോര്‍യ്യും പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കണ്ട
9:06 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, എന്തോ ബഗ് ആണ്... ഞാൻ അയച്ചത് ജിഷ്ണുവിനും വായിക്കാൻ പറ്റിയില്ല... പക്ഷേ എനിക്ക് പറ്റി..
9:06 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, കാണാനില്ല
9:06 PM <tachyons> ASCII ആണോ
9:06 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ജനറല്‍ ബോഡിയുടെ റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട് അത്ര ആവശ്യം ഇല്ലല്ലോ..
9:06 PM <manojkmohan> എന്നോടാണോ ASCII ആണോന്ന് ചോദിയ്ക്കുന്നത് :-/
9:07 PM <manojkmohan> എത്രമാത്രം ASCII->Unicode ചെയ്ത ആള്‍ ചിലപ്പൊ വേറെ കാണില്ല :P
9:07 PM <manojkmohan> എ->ഇ #typo
9:07 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അതാണു ജനറല്‍ ബോഡി ആവാമെന്നു പറഞ്ഞതു് . അന്നു വൈകുന്നേരം വേണമെങ്കില്‍ ഒരു കര്‍ട്ടന്‍ റൈസര്‍ പബ്ലിക് ടോക്കും തൃശ്ശൂരിലെ ഫിലിം സൊസൈറ്റികളുമായി ചേര്‍ന്ന് മലയാളം സ
9:07 PM <•anivar> ബ്ടൈറ്റിലുകളുള്ള സിനിമാ പ്രദര്‍ശനമോ ഒക്കെ ആവാം
9:08 PM <•anivar> എന്നു തോന്നുന്നു
9:08 PM <•anivar> ഒരു 5 മണി മുതല്‍
9:08 PM <•anivar> പകല്‍ നമ്മുടെ ജനറല്‍ ബോഡി
9:08 PM <tachyons> യുനീക്കോടിന്റെ ആശാനോടാണ് ചോദിച്ചു പോയത് അല്ലെ ,(sorry for offtopic )
9:08 PM <manojkmohan> M-zone പോലുള്ള കൂട്ടായ്മകള്‍ മലയാളം സബ്ടൈറ്റിലിങ്ങില്‍ പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. അവരുടെ സഹകരണം തേടാം
9:08 PM <•anivar> എന്തുപായുന്നു എല്ലാരും
9:08 PM <•anivar> പറയുന്നു
9:08 PM <tachyons> +1
9:09 PM <balasankarc> anivar, അത് കൊള്ളാം..
9:09 PM <•anivar> കൂട്ടത്തില്‍ നമുക്കു സ്വതന്ത്ര സിനിമകളും മലയാളം സബ്ടൈറ്റിലോടെ കാണിക്കാം
9:09 PM <jishnu7_> manojkmohan, balasankarc http://i.imgur.com/qDWKCrC.png
9:09 PM <jaisuvyas> anivar, നല്ല ആശയമാണു്.
9:09 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഈ ജനറല്‍ ബോഡി എത്ര നേരമുണ്ടാകും.. ഏകദേശം??
9:10 PM <•anivar> അന്നു പകല്‍ 10 മുതല്‍ 5 വരെ . കുറെക്കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ആലോചിക്കാനും തീരുമാനിക്കാനും ഉണ്ടല്ലോ
9:10 PM <•anivar> 5 മണി ക്ക് പബ്ലിക്ക് പ്രോഗ്രാം തുടങ്ങിയാല്‍ മതി
9:10 PM <manojkmohan> jishnu7_, വരിയുടെ വലിപ്പം കൂടുമ്പോഴുള്ള ബഗ്ഗ് ആണെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു
9:10 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ജനറല്‍ ബോഡിയുടെ അജണ്ട വേറെ ഉണ്ടാക്കണ്ടേ??
9:10 PM <•anivar> പബ്ലിക് പ്രോഗ്രാം മാത്രം ഇന്‍വിറ്റേഷനില്‍ മതി
9:10 PM <ershad> 5 മണി കുറെ വൈകിയില്ലേ?
9:10 PM <•anivar> രണ്ടാം ദിനം ആക്കാം ഉത്ഘാടനം
9:11 PM <jishnu7_> manojkmohan, others also have same issue
9:11 PM <•anivar> ershad, തൃശ്ശൂരിലെ പൊതുപരിപാടികളുടെ സ്ഥിരം സമയം 4-7.30 ആണ്
9:12 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, എത്രമണി വരെ നീളാമെന്നു നമുക്ക് അന്വേഷിക്കണം
9:12 PM <balasankarc> anivar, രണ്ടാം ദിനം മുതല്‍ പൊതുപരിപാടി??
9:12 PM <manojkmohan> 8 മണിവരെയാണ് സാധാരണ സമയം
9:12 PM <ershad> anivar: ആഹ, അത് അറിയില്ലയിരുന്നു.
9:12 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അല്ല ഒന്നാം ദിവസം 5 മണി ക്കു കര്‍ട്ടന്‍ റൈസര്‍ പരിപാടി . രണ്ടാം ദിനം കാലത്തു് ഉദ്‌ഘാടനം.
9:13 PM <•anivar> ഇതെല്ലാം പൊതുപരിപാടി തന്നെ
9:13 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഓക്കെ..
9:13 PM <•anivar> അന്നു രണ്ഠോ മൂന്നോ പാനല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ചകളും ആവാം
9:14 PM <•anivar> രണ്ടു പാനലാണു് നല്ലതു്
9:14 PM <•anivar> ഇതൊക്കെ എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായമാണേ . തിരുത്താന്‍ റെഡിയായിക്കോ
9:14 PM <•anivar> ഒപ്പം പാരലലായി മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിലെ നേട്ടങ്ങളുടെ എക്സിബിഷന്‍
9:15 PM <jaisuvyas> anivar, രണ്ടു പാനല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ച? മനസ്സിലായില്ല..
9:15 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> പാനല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ചകളുടെ വിഷയമെന്താണുദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത്?
9:16 PM <•anivar> ഉദാ പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ ഭാഷാസാങ്കേതിക വിദ്യയും സാംസ്കാരിക രാഷ്ട്രീയവും (ചുമ്മാ പറയുന്നതാണേ ) എന്നോ മറ്റോ ഒരു പാനല്‍ വെക്കുന്നു എന്നു കരുതുക
9:17 PM <•anivar> അതില്‍ നമ്മള്‍ മലയാളം യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി വൈസ് ചാന്‍സലര്‍ മുതല്‍
9:18 PM <manojkmohan> ലിപിപരിഷ്കരണം പോലുള്ള വിഷയങ്ങള്‍ എടുത്തൂടെ ?
9:18 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, വിവാദങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്നു കഴിയുന്നതും നേരിട്ട് ഒഴിഞ്ഞൂ നില്‍ക്കുക
9:18 PM <•anivar> കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങില്‍ എന്തു ചെയ്യണം എന്നറിയാത്തതു കൊണ്ടാണ് ഇവരു ലിപി പരിഷകരണം പറയുന്നതു്
9:18 PM <manojkmohan> ഉം :) അത് ശരിയാ.. അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ ഇതോടു കൂടി എല്ലാരും അടിച്ച് പിരിയും
9:19 PM <aneeshnl> എന്റെ ഒരഭിപ്രായം സാധാരണക്കാര്‍ക്ക് മനസിലാകുന്ന വിഷയങ്ങള്‍ ലളിതമായി അവതരിപ്പിക്കുക
9:19 PM <•anivar> നമ്മളും കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് പറയാതെ ലിപിപരിഷ്കരണത്തിന്റെ ചര്‍ച്ചയ്ക്കു പോയാല്‍ ഇതു പറയാന്‍ ആരും ഉണ്ടാവില്ല
9:19 PM <•anivar> ഭാഷയെന്നാല്‍ സാഹിത്യമെന്നും കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് എന്നാല്‍ ലിപിപരിഷ്കണമെന്നുമാണ് കേരളത്തിലെ സാമാന്യ ബോധം
9:20 PM <•anivar> അതു മാറ്റല്‍ കൂടി ആവണം നമ്മുടെ ഉദ്ദേശ്യം
9:20 PM <balasankarc> രണ്ടും തമ്മില്‍ ഒരു മെര്‍ജ്ജിങ്ങ് ഉണ്ടാക്കണം...
9:20 PM <jaisuvyas> അതു ശരിയാ
9:20 PM <manojkmohan> പ്രാദേശികവത്കരണവും അതിന്റെ സാധ്യതകളും
9:20 PM <•anivar> അതേ രണ്ടു പാനലിനും കഴിയുന്നതും വൈഡായ വിഷയം തീരുമാനിക്കുക
9:21 PM <•anivar> അവയില്‍ പ്രസന്റേഷനുകള്‍ വൈവിധ്യത്തോടെ നടത്തുക
9:21 PM <j4v4m4n> വാര്‍ഷിക സംഗമത്തിലേയ്ക്കെത്തുന്നതിനു് മുമ്പു് പറ്റാവുന്നത്രയും ഇടങ്ങളില്‍ മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിനെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന പരിപാടികള്‍
9:21 PM <•anivar> ഓരോ പാനലിലും എസ്സെംസിയുടെ ഭാഗത്തുനിന്നു ഒരു പ്രസന്റേഷനെങ്കിലും ഉണ്ടാവുക
9:21 PM <manojkmohan> j4v4m4n, +1
9:21 PM <•anivar> ഭാഷാ ഇന്‍സ്റ്റിറ്റ്യൂട്ടും സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമിയും മുതല്‍ എല്ലാവരെയും ഉള്‍ക്കൊള്ളിക്കുക
9:22 PM <j4v4m4n> കേരളം മുഴുവനായും കൂട്ടായ്മകളെ ഒന്നു് enrgize ചെയ്യുക
9:22 PM <•anivar> അതെ j4v4m4n കഴിയുന്നത്ര ബൂട്ട്കാമ്പുകള്‍ ഇതിനു മുന്നോടിയായി നടക്കണം
9:22 PM <tachyons> machine translation നും മലയാളം കംപൂട്ടിങ്ങില്‍ വരണം
9:22 PM <j4v4m4n> പരിപാടിയുടെ നടത്തിപ്പിലും പ്രാദേശിക കൂട്ടായ്മകളെ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തുക
9:23 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, SMC എന്ന ഓര്‍ഗനൈസേഷന്റെ ബാനറില്‍, കോളേജുകളെ സമീപിച്ചാല്‍, കോളേജുകളില്‍ പരിപാടി നടത്താനുള്ള ചാൻസ് കൂടും...
9:23 PM <manojkmohan> tachyons, IRC കഴിഞ്ഞ് പേഴ്സണല്‍ ആയി ഒന്ന് പിങ്ങ് ചെയ്യാമോ
9:23 PM <tachyons> മുന്നോടിയായി ചെറിയ ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍ ഇവന്റുകളുമാകാം
9:24 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും വേണം . തൃശ്ശൂരു നമ്മള്‍ 2007 ലെ പരിപാടി നടത്തിയതു് തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ എഞ്ചിനീയറിങ്ങ് കോളേജിന്റെയും പിജി സെന്ററിന്റെയും എംഇഎസ് കോളേജിന്റെയും സഹകരണത്തോടെയാണ്
9:24 PM <•anivar> പരിപാടിക്കു മലയാളികല്‍ മാത്രമാവേണ്ടതില്ല എന്നും തൊന്നുന്നു
9:24 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ചര്‍ച്ചാവിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ ഒരു നിര്‍ദ്ദേശമുള്ളത്; എന്തൊക്കെ നേട്ടങ്ങള്‍ കൈവരിച്ചു എന്നതിന്റെ കൂടെ, ഭാഷാകംപ്യൂട്ടിങില്‍ ഇനി എന്തൊക്കെ ചെയ്യാനുണ്ട് എന്നും
9:24 PM <j4v4m4n> തിരുവനന്തപുരം, കൊല്ലം, എറണാംകുളം, പാലക്കാട്, കോഴിക്കോട്, മലപ്പുറം എങ്കിലും ഓഫ്ലൈന്‍ മീറ്റപ്പുകള്‍ നടത്താം
9:25 PM <balasankarc> anivar, അതിനോട് എനിക്ക് യോജിപ്പില്ല... മിക്കവാറും വിനിമയഭാഷ മലയാളമാകും... നമ്മള്‍ എത്രയൊക്കെ ശ്രമിച്ചാലും..
9:25 PM <j4v4m4n> ഐടി@സ്കൂള്‍ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റിയുമായി സഹകരിയ്ക്കാം
9:25 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും
9:25 PM <balasankarc> ബാക്കിയുള്ളവര്‍ വെറുതെ ശശിയായി ഇരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യും..
9:25 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> അതിനു ഏതൊക്കെ തുറകളിലുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് സംഭാവനകള്‍ നല്‍കാന്‍ സാധിക്കുമെന്നും
9:25 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, +1
9:26 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അങ്ങനെ വിചാരിക്കേണ്ടതില്ല. നമ്മള്‍ നേരത്തെ SoorajKenoth ചോദിച്ച പോലെ ടാര്‍ഗറ്റ് ആയിക്കാണുന്നതു് ബിരുദതലത്തിലോ അതിനു മുകളിലോ എഞ്ചിനീയറിങ്ങ് ആര്‍ട്സ് കോളേജുകളില്‍ പഠി
9:26 PM <•anivar> ക്കുന്നവരല്ലേ
9:26 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeeshknambiar: anivar നമ്മുടെ ചില crowd funding campaigns എങ്കിലും തുടങ്ങാനും പറ്റണം
9:27 PM <•anivar> ഉദാഹരണത്തിന് ശങ്കര്‍ശന്‍ , വെങ്കി എന്നിവരെയൊക്കെ കൊണ്ടുവരാന്‍ പറ്റിയാല്‍ നന്നായിരിക്കില്ലേ
9:27 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ഇപ്പോള്‍ സാധിച്ചതിലുമധികം പങ്കാളിത്തം എങ്ങനെ നേടിയെടുക്കാം എന്നുകൂടി ആലോചിക്കണം‌
9:28 PM <jaisuvyas> balasankarc, വാസുദേവ് കാമത്തിനെയും രാഹുല്‍ ഭോലേറാവുവിനെയും പോലെയുള്ളവരെയൊക്കെ കൂട്ടണ്ടേ?
9:28 PM <j4v4m4n> font, pypdflib എന്നിവയാണു് crowd funding നു് ഇപ്പോള്‍ എന്റെ മനസ്സിലുള്ളതു്
9:28 PM <•stultus> anivar, jaisuvyas, +1
9:28 PM <•anivar> jaisuvyas, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും . രാഹുല്‍ ഇപ്പോ ആക്റ്റിവല്ല
9:28 PM <•anivar> വസുദേവ് വരാമെന്ന് ഇന്നാളു പറയുന്നുണ്ടായിരുന്നു
9:28 PM <•anivar> നല്ല കാഴ്ചപ്പടുള്ളവരാണ് . ഗൂഗിള്‍ റെഡ്‌ഹാറ്റ് എന്നീ ബാനറുകള്‍ ഒക്കെ എഞ്ചിനീയറിങ്ങ് വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ക്ക് താല്പര്യം വരാനും ഇടയാക്കും .
9:29 PM <j4v4m4n> അടുത്തായി കണ്ണന്‍ മാഷെ കൊല്ലത്തു് കണ്ടപ്പോള്‍ വിക്കിപീഡിയില്‍ നിന്നും അച്ചടിയ്ക്കുന്നതിലെ പ്രയാസങ്ങള്‍ പറഞ്ഞു
9:29 PM <balasankarc> jaisuvyas, aneeshnl കൂട്ടണ്ട എന്നല്ല പറഞ്ഞത്... അവര്‍ക്കും കൂടി ഇൻവോൾവ് ആകാൻ പറ്റിയ പരിപാടികള്‍ ഉണ്ടെങ്കില്‍ മാത്രം അതിന് ശ്രമിച്ചാല്‍ പോരെ എന്നാണ്.. അത്തരം പരിപാടികള്‍ നടത്താ
9:29 PM <balasankarc> സാധിച്ചാല്‍, നല്ല ഔട്ട് റീച്ച് തന്നെയാണ്..
9:29 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ^
9:29 PM <manojkmohan> balasankarc, വായിക്കാന്‍ പറ്റിയില്ല.
9:29 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, ഗിബ്ബറിഷ് ആയി
9:29 PM <•anivar> അവായിക്കാനാവുന്നില്ല
9:30 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, നമ്മുടെ ഫോണ്ടുകള്‍ ഇറക്കാനാവുമോ ഒക്റ്റോബറിലേക്
9:30 PM <•anivar> അന്നു പറഞ്ഞപോലെ
9:30 PM <balasankarc> anivar, jaisuvyas : we can call them for sure.. but we need to ensure that we are having programmes that they also can involve... if we can organize such programems, it will be a good outreach..
9:30 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ^
9:30 PM <•anivar> നമ്മുടെ ഫോണ്ടുകളുടെ റിലീസിനു സഹായിക്കാനാവുന്നവര്‍ രജീഷിനോടു സംസാരിക്കൂ
9:31 PM <•anivar> പറ്റ്യാല്‍ അടുത്ത റിലീസ് ഇതോടൊപ്പം നടത്താം
9:31 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, നമ്മള്‍ പാനലുകളില്‍ ഉള്‍പ്പെടുത്തിയാല്‍ മതി
9:31 PM <•anivar> അതെല്ലാം സീരിയസ് പ്രസന്റേഷന്‍ ആവണം
9:32 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ok..
9:32 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> രചനയും മീരയും അപ്ഡേറ്റ് ചെയ്തു. റിലീസ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിന്റെ പ്രധാനപണി മറ്റു ഫോണ്ടുകള്‍ കൂടെ പുതുക്കുന്നതാണ്
9:32 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, stultus നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കു സഹായിക്കാനാവില്ലേ .
9:33 PM <manojkmohan> rajeeshknambiar, എനിക്ക് കൂടണമെന്നുണ്ട്. എല്ലാത്തിനും കൂടി സമയമുണ്ടാകുമോ എന്ന് സംശയം
9:33 PM <•anivar> ഇന്നാളു താല്പര്യം പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നല്ലോ
9:33 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> പഠിക്കാനും കോണ്‍ട്രിബ്യൂട്ട് ചെയ്യാനും താല്‍പര്യവുമുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് തുടങ്ങാനുള്ള ഒന്നാന്തരം അവസരമാണ്
9:33 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ഞാനും സന്തോഷും സെഷന്‍സ് എടുക്കാന്‍ തയ്യാറുമാണ്
9:33 PM <•anivar> tachyons, നോക്കുന്നോ
9:33 PM <balasankarc> anivar, basics പോലും അറിയില്ല... ഒന്നു തുടങ്ങിക്കിട്ടിയാല്‍ സഹായിക്കാം.. ഒരു ഹാങ്ങൗട്ട്/ഐ ആര്‍ സിയിലൂടെ ബേസിക്സ് പറഞ്ഞ് തന്നാല്‍ ഞാൻ ശ്രമിക്കാം..
9:33 PM <balasankarc> rajeeshknambiar, ^
9:33 PM <•stultus> anivar, rajeeshknambiar എനിക്ക് മറ്റന്നാള്‍ മുതല്‍‌‌ ഇഷ്ടം പോലെ ടൈമുണ്ട് :)
9:34 PM <manojkmohan> ഞാനെന്തായാലും റെഡിയാണ്.
9:34 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> സന്തോഷിനോട് സംസാരിക്കണം, അദ്ദേഹം തിരക്കിലാണെന്നു തോന്നുന്നു
9:34 PM <•anivar> ershad, gem ജിസോക്ക് പ്രൊജക്റ്റുകള്‍ നമുക്ക് റിലീസ് ചെയ്യണം .
9:34 PM <gem> ഞാനുമുണ്ട്
9:34 PM <ershad> തീർച്ചയായും
9:35 PM <manojkmohan> രണ്ടാദിവസത്തെ പരിപാടികളിലേയ്ക്ക് എത്തിയോ ?
9:35 PM <•anivar> അതു് പബ്ലിക്ക് റിലീസിനു പറ്റുന്ന അവസ്ഥയില്‍ ആക്കിയെടുക്കണം
9:35 PM <gem> anivar റെഡി
9:35 PM <gem> anivar റെഡിയാക്കാം.. * :)
9:36 PM <manojkmohan> * കണ്ടീഷന്‍സ് അപ്ലെ
9:36 PM <manojkmohan> ;)
9:36 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, രണ്ടാം ദിനമല്ലേ ചര്‍ച്ച . 10 മണി ഉദ്ഘാടനം . ഉച്ചവരെ ഉദ്ഘാടനവും പ്രസംഗങ്ങളും കൊണ്ടുപോകും
9:36 PM <balasankarc> gem, manojkmohan :D
9:36 PM <gem> manojkmohan: ലതല്ല.. :ഡി
9:37 PM <j4v4m4n> balasankarc: manojkmohan ഡായാസ്പൊറയുടെ * ആണോ? :)
9:37 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, പാക്കേജ് ചെയ്ത് പ്രാന്തായി...
9:37 PM <•anivar> ഒപ്പം മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന് , സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂടിങ്ങിന് എന്നല്ല സംഭാവന നല്‍കിയ ഏവരെയും അവരുടെ സംഭാവന പറഞ്ഞ് ആദരിക്കലും നടക്കണം
9:37 PM <manojkmohan> j4v4m4n, balasankarc gem സാധാരണ വിലക്കുറവ് പരസ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കാണ് കാണാറ്. എല്ലാത്തിന്റെ വിലയുടെ മുകളിലും * കാണും
9:37 PM <gem> അതന്നെ.. j4v4m4n കണ്ട് പിടിച്ച്..:D
9:37 PM <•anivar> baijum, എന്തു പറയുന്നു
9:37 PM <•stultus> j4v4m4n, :D
9:37 PM <•anivar> സഹായിക്കണം
9:38 PM <balasankarc> anivar, അത് കൊള്ളാം..
9:38 PM <tachyons> ഭക്ഷണം കഴിക്കാന്‍ പോയതായിരുന്നു
9:39 PM <manojkmohan> ഉദ്ഘാടനത്തിന് ആരെയാണ് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നത് ?
9:40 PM <tachyons> <<<anivar> tachyons, നോക്കുന്നോ >> എന്ത്?
9:40 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, ആ ചര്‍ച്ച അടുത്തതു്
9:40 PM <•anivar> ഉച്ച കഴിഞ്ഞ് ഒരു പാനല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ച. ഒരു 2 മണിയോടെ 4.30ക്കു 5 മണിക്ക് വേണമെങ്കില്‍ ഓപ്പണ്‍ എയറില്‍
9:40 PM <j4v4m4n> tachyons: ഫോണ്ടുകളില്‍ കൈ വയ്ക്കൂന്നോ എന്നു്?
9:40 PM <•anivar> ഇവയ്ക്ക് പാരലായി മറ്റു ഹാളുകളില്‍ വേണമെങ്കില്‍ വര്‍ക്ക്ഷോപ്പ് നടത്താം
9:41 PM <balasankarc> anivar, വര്‍ക്ക്ഷോപ്പ് മലയാളം മാത്രമാണോ, അതോ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍ ആണോ??
9:41 PM — •stultus thinks Ershad ഉദ്ഘാടനം ചെയ്യുന്നതാവും ഫാന്‍സിനൊക്കെ ഇഷ്ടം :P
9:41 PM <balasankarc> anivar, python, inkscape, scribus etc??
9:41 PM <•anivar> അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ എക്സിബിഷന്‍
9:41 PM <•anivar> stultus, :-)
9:41 PM <manojkmohan> പൈത്തണ്‍, വിക്കി, എങ്ങനെ മലയാളത്തില്‍ വെബ്സൈറ്റ് ഉണ്ടാക്കാം,
9:41 PM <ershad> stultus: :P
9:41 PM <balasankarc> aneeshnl, l10n??
9:41 PM <manojkmohan> എക്സിബിഷന്‍ രണ്ട് ദിവസം മുഴുവനായി വേണമെന്നാണ് അഭിപ്രായം
9:42 PM <•anivar> മലയാളവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് തീം ചെയ്യാം
9:42 PM <aneeshnl> balasankarc, എന്താ അതില്‍ ചെയ്യുക?
9:42 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ഓപ്പൺ ഹാര്‍ഡ്‌വെയര്‍ നടത്തിയാല്‍ വെറൈറ്റി ആകും...
9:42 PM stultus → •stultus_brb
9:42 PM <manojkmohan> പൊതുജനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ഉപകാരമുള്ള വിഷയങ്ങള്‍ നടത്തിയാല്‍ സാധാരണക്കാര്‍ കുറച്ചധികം വരും
9:42 PM <balasankarc> aneeshnl, അതാ പ്രശ്നം... ഗ്നോം വിട്ടിട്ട്, വേറെ വല്ലോം കൂടെ നോക്കിയാലോ?? കാര്യമായിട്ട് ഒന്നും നടക്കാത്തത്...
9:43 PM <tachyons> j4v4m4n : ഫോണ്ടോ ഞാനോ , എനിക്കതിന്റെ ABCD അറിയില്ല
9:43 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, പറഞ്ഞ പോലെ ഒരു ദിവസം നമുക്ക് ചര്‍ച്ചകളെല്ലാം മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ നേട്ടങ്ങളും ഇന്നും ഹൈലൈറ്റ് ചെയ്യാനും രണ്ടാം ദിനം ചലഞ്ചസ് ചര്‍ച്ചകള്‍ക്കുമായി തീം
9:43 PM <•anivar> ചെയ്താലോ
9:43 PM <j4v4m4n> tachyons: ABCD മുതല്‍ പഠിയ്ക്കാനവസപമുണ്ടു്
9:43 PM <manojkmohan> tachyons, താല്പര്യമുണ്ടോന്നാഡോ ചോദിച്ചത്. ആര്‍ക്കും കാര്യമായി ഒന്നുമറിയില്ല :)
9:43 PM <balasankarc> aneeshnl, or we can proofread existing l10n... there is a complaint in the foss world, gnome l10n is not acceptable because of less number of discussions...
9:43 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: +1
9:43 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, വേണ്ടതാണു് .
9:43 PM <tachyons> അത് കൊള്ളാം
9:43 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> tachyons: ABCD പഠിപ്പിക്കാനാള്‍ക്കാരുണ്ട്
9:44 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> anivar: യോജിക്കുന്നു
9:44 PM <•anivar> എന്നാല്‍ ചര്‍ച്ചകളും പാനലുകളും ആ രീതിയില്‍ നമുക്കു തയ്യാറാക്കാം
9:44 PM <aneeshnl> balasankarc, മനസിലായില്ല
9:45 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ഇനിയെന്ത് ചെയ്യാനുണ്ട് എന്നതിന്റെ കൂടെ ആര്‍ക്കൊക്കെ പങ്കുചേരാം എന്ന പൊതുഅവബോധമുണ്ടാക്കാനും ആ ചര്‍ച്ചയില്‍ സാധിക്കണം
9:45 PM <j4v4m4n> aneeshnl: മലയാളത്തിലുള്ള പണിയിടം ഉപയോഗിച്ചു് ഒപ്പം പ്രയോഗങ്ങളും മലയാളത്തില്‍ കൂടിയിരുന്നു് നോക്കാം
9:45 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> anivar: ഒരു 'ഓപ്പണിങ്' കിട്ടാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് കോണ്‍ട്രിബ്യൂട്ട് ചെയ്യാതിരിക്കുന്നു ഒരുപാടുപേരുണ്ട്
9:45 PM <•anivar> നമ്മളാരെയും ഒഴിവാക്കരുത്ത് എല്ലാ ഗ്രൂപ്പുകളെയും വിളിക്കണം . ഈ ചരിത്രത്തിലും മുന്നോട്ടുപോക്കിലും അവരുടെ പങ്ക് അവര്‍ക്കുസംസാരിക്കാനുള്ള അവസരമൊരുക്കണം
9:46 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, :-)
9:46 PM <balasankarc> aneeshnl, "കാര്യമായി ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യാതെ, തോന്നും പടി നടത്തിയ ഗ്നോം പരിഭാഷയ്ക്കൊക്കെ എത്രമാത്രം സ്വീകാര്യത ഉണ്ട് എന്ന് നമുക്കറിയാം" എന്നൊരു പരാമര്‍ശം കണ്ടു...
9:46 PM <tachyons> +1
9:46 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അതൊക്കെ വിടൂ എന്നേ . തര്‍ജ്ജമകള്‍ അവസാനവാക്കല്ലല്ലോ സ്ഥിരം പുതുക്കുന്നതല്ലേ
9:47 PM <balasankarc> anivar, സ്വമക ആൻഡ്രോയിഡില്‍ കൈവെക്കണ്ടേ... അത് ഈ പരിപാടിയുടെ ഭാഗമായി തുടങ്ങാൻ സാധിക്കുമോ?
9:47 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeeshknambiar: +1 crowd funding ഒരു മാതൃകയായി നീണ്ട പരിശ്രമമാവശ്യമുള്ള വിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ ചിലരെയെങ്കിലും മുഴുവന്‍ സമയം fund ചെയ്യാന്‍ പറ്റുമോ എന്നുള്ളൊരു അന്വേഷണം കൂടി
9:47 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, തുടങ്ങുകയായി .
9:47 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഓക്കെ..
9:47 PM <manojkmohan> balasankarc, aneeshnl നമ്മള് ഇരുന്ന് റിവ്യൂ ചെയ്യാനല്ല പരിപാടി വയ്ക്കുന്നത്. പബ്ലിക്കിന് വേണ്ടിയാണ്. അവര്‍ക്ക് കൂടി കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ മനസ്സിലാകാ, പങ്ക് ചേരാന്‍
9:47 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> j4v4m4n: എന്നെ ആരെങ്കിലും ദത്തെടുക്കുവോ!! ;-)
9:47 PM <balasankarc> kavya, സ്വാഗതം..
9:48 PM <•anivar> ഇപ്പളേ രജീഷിന്റെ ഒക്കെ വര്‍ക്കല്ലേ മലയാളം 4.3 യില്‍ വന്നതു്
9:48 PM <tachyons> ubuntu ഫോണും വേണം ;-)
9:48 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, അപ്പോള്‍, ഇനി ഗ്നോം കൊണ്ടിരുന്നിട്ട് കാര്യമില്ല...
9:48 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, നമ്മുടെ ഫോണ്ട് പ്രൊജ്കറ്റുകള്‍ കാലം കുറെയായി സംസാരിക്കുന്നു
9:48 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, അതിലെ എളുപ്പ പണി ഒക്കെ തീർന്നു...
9:48 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeeshknambiar: നമുക്കൊന്നു് നോക്കാന്നേ :)
9:48 PM <•anivar> അതിന് ഒരു ക്രൌഡ് ഫണ്ടിങ്ങ് കാമ്പൈന്‍ തുടങ്ങണം
9:49 PM <balasankarc> ഏതോ സിനിമയില്‍ പറയുന്നത് പോലെ, "നമുക്ക് പിരിക്കാമെന്നേ..."
9:49 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> സി.വി.രാധാകൃഷ്ണന്‍ സാറിനോട് സംസാരിക്കാനിടയായി
9:49 PM <balasankarc> rajeeshknambiar, സായാഹ്ന?
9:49 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, പറയൂ
9:50 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> നമ്മുടെ ഫോണ്ടുകളില്‍ പബ്ലിഷിങിന് തടസ്സം നില്‍ക്കുന്ന വളരെച്ചുരുക്കം അപൂര്‍ണ സംഗതികളുണ്ട്
9:50 PM <•anivar> ഇനി ഉദ്ഘാടനക്കാര്യം . നമുക്കാരെ വിളിക്കണം
9:50 PM <•anivar> ?
9:50 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ചിലതൊക്കെ ചേര്‍ത്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്നു
9:50 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, എന്താണ്
9:50 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> വിശദമായി നോക്കേണ്ടതുണ്ട്
9:51 PM <•anivar> ഉദ്ഘാടനം ആരു വേണം
9:51 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> small caps, old numerals, quote marks etc
9:51 PM <tachyons> malayalam university vice chancellor
9:51 PM <•anivar> സജഷന്‍സ്
9:51 PM <manojkmohan> anivar, അച്ചുതാനന്ദനെ വിളിച്ചാലോ ;)
9:51 PM <•anivar> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി ആയാലോ
9:51 PM <•anivar> തമാശയല്ല
9:51 PM <aneeshnl> anivar, +1
9:51 PM <•anivar> കിട്ടിയാലായി
9:51 PM <balasankarc> anivar, M K Govi?
9:51 PM <aneeshnl> പക്ഷേ എങ്ങനെ
9:52 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ആദരിക്കല്‍
9:52 PM <tachyons> പോയാലൊരു വാക്ക്, കിട്ടിയാല്‍
9:52 PM <•anivar> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി , വിദ്യാഭ്യാസമന്ത്രി , സാംസ്കാരികമന്ത്രി , ഐടി മന്ത്രി എന്നിവരെ ട്രൈ ചെയ്യുന്നതില്‍ കുഴപ്പമില്ല എന്നു തോന്നുന്നു
9:52 PM <manojkmohan> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയെ ശ്രമിച്ച് നോക്കാംലെ
9:52 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: +1
9:52 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> manojkmohan, anivar: പൊളിറ്റിക്കല്‍ ഫിഗേഴ്സിനു പകരം ഭാഷാസാങ്കേതികത എന്താണെന്നു എന്തെങ്കിലും ആശയമുള്ളവരെയായാല്‍ നന്നായിരുന്നു
9:52 PM <jaisuvyas> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി.
9:52 PM <balasankarc> anivar, പ്ലാൻ ബി?? മന്ത്രിമാരെ ആരേം കിട്ടിയില്ലെങ്കില്‍??
9:52 PM <kra3> rajeeshknambiar, +1
9:52 PM <tachyons> കരിങ്കൊടിയും പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കാം ;-)
9:53 PM <•anivar> ഗോവി സാറിനു യാത്ര ചെയ്യാന്‍ പറ്റുമെങ്കില്‍ എന്തായാലും നോക്കാം
9:53 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി ഒക്കെയാണെങ്കില്‍ പക്ഷേ അല്പം കൂടെ മൈലേജ്/പബ്ലിസിറ്റി കിട്ടുമെന്നത് നേര്
9:53 PM <•anivar> ഗ്രന്ഥം റിലീസുള്ളതിനാല്‍ പ്രത്യേകിച്ചും
9:53 PM <j4v4m4n> കരിങ്കൊടി ഒരു പ്രശ്നമാണു് :)
9:53 PM <manojkmohan> rajeeshknambiar, i know. പക്ഷേ മാധ്യമ ശ്രദ്ധ കിട്ടണമെങ്കില്‍ ആരെങ്കിലുമൊക്കെ വേണം
9:53 PM <balasankarc> anivar, സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാരെ ആരെയെങ്കിലും??
9:54 PM <manojkmohan> ഗോവിസാറിനെ വിളിയ്കണം
9:54 PM <balasankarc> anivar, സച്ചിദാനന്ദൻ, ശിവദാസ് സാര്‍
9:54 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, നമുക്കു വേണ്ടതു് സംഘടനയ്ക്കുള്ള മൈലേജ് അല്ല. അതില്‍ക്കൂടുതലായി മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് രംഗത്തിനുള്ള മൈലേജ് ആണ്
9:54 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: ശശി തരൂര്‍?
9:54 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> അതേസമയം മലയാളം യൂനിവേഴ്സിറ്റിക്കാരെ തീര്‍ച്ചയായും പങ്കെടുപ്പിക്കണം, പറ്റിയാല്‍ രണ്ടു ദിവസവും‌‌
9:54 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും
9:54 PM <manojkmohan> j4v4m4n, :)
9:54 PM <•anivar> അതുപോലെ വിക്കിപീഡിയപ്രവര്‍ത്തകര്‍ക്കും കാര്യമായ ഇടം കൊടുക്കണം
9:55 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: ചിരഞ്ചീവിയായാലോ? പുള്ളി ആലപ്പുഴയില്‍ വന്നതാ.
9:55 PM <balasankarc> anivar, പഠനശിബിരം??
9:55 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> anivar: സംഘടനയ്ക്കുള്ള മൈലേജ് അല്ല ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത്, കംപ്യൂട്ടിങിനു തന്നെയാണ്
9:55 PM <manojkmohan> j4v4m4n, അങ്ങനെയാണെങ്കില്‍ മമ്മൂട്ടിയാണ് നല്ലത്.
9:55 PM <•anivar> മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയെ കിട്ടിയാല്‍ എല്ലാം പിന്നെ എളുപ്പമാവും . ജയകുമാര്‍ സാറിനെയും , മറ്റു മന്ത്രിമാരെയും ഒക്കെ
9:56 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: ഞാന്‍ പറയാന്‍ പോകുകയായിരുന്നു
9:56 PM <•anivar> കിട്ടിയില്ലെങ്കില്‍ പ്ലാന്‍ ബി വേണം
9:56 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: സുരേഷ് ഗോപിയെങ്കിലും? ചില പരിപാടിയ്ക്കു് വന്നിട്ടില്ലേ അങ്ങോരു്?
9:56 PM <balasankarc> anivar, പ്ലാൻ ബി : ശുദ്ധ സാഹിത്യകാരന്മാര്‍??
9:56 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, ശശി തരൂര്‍ നല്ല ഓപ്ഷനാണു്.
9:56 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> പ്ലാന്‍ ബി: മമ്മൂട്ടി? (മ്വാഹഹ)
9:57 PM <manojkmohan> hehe
9:57 PM <•anivar> പ്ലാന്‍ എ യില്‍ത്തന്നെ
9:57 PM <•rajeeshknambiar> ശശി തരൂര്‍ നല്ല ഓപ്ഷനാണെന്നതില്‍ വിയോജനം രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു
9:57 PM <•anivar> പ്ലാന്‍ ബി ആലോചിക്കണം .
9:58 PM <•anivar> rajeeshknambiar, വേറെ ഒന്നുമല്ല. മനുഷ്യവിഭവശേഷി മന്ത്രിയല്ലേ
9:58 PM <•anivar> അതുപോലെ ഇന്നാളു എന്‍സിആര്‍ടിയുടെ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ റിസോഴ്സുകള്‍ CC-A-SA ലൈസന്‍സിലാക്കാന്‍ അദ്ദേഹം മുന്‍കൈ എടുക്കുകയുമുണ്ടായി
9:59 PM <•anivar> നമുക്കു വ്യക്തികളെ നോക്കണ്ടല്ലോ
9:59 PM <•anivar> പ്ലാന്‍ബി സജഷനുകള്‍ പറയൂ
10:00 PM <balasankarc> anivar, പ്ലാൻ ബി എന്റെ സജഷൻസ് നേരത്തെ പറഞ്ഞവയാ... സച്ചിദാനന്ദൻ മാഷ്, ശിവദാസ് സാര്‍
10:00 PM <•anivar> സച്ചി മാഷ് നല്ല ഓപ്ഷനാണ്
10:00 PM <manojkmohan> ONV ആയാലോ ?
10:00 PM <•anivar> പക്ഷേ ഡെല്ലീന്നെത്തിക്കേണ്ടിവരും
10:01 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, തമാശയാണോ
10:01 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ഡിജിറ്റല്‍ മലയാളം + ഓ എൻ വി??
10:01 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, നന്നായിരിക്കും..
10:01 PM <manojkmohan> ഞാനും അഖിലനും പോയി ചുമ്മാ കണ്ട് പോന്നിരുന്നു
10:01 PM <manojkmohan> തൃശ്ശൂര് ഒരു പരിപാടിയ്ക്ക് വന്നപ്പൊ
10:01 PM <j4v4m4n> ഒബാമയായാലോ? വിളിയ്ക്കാന്‍ എളുപ്പമല്ലേ. നമ്മുടെ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റില്‍ തന്നെ സേവ് ചെയ്താല്‍ മതിയല്ലോ
10:02 PM <aneeshnl> j4v4m4n, ലോല്‍
10:02 PM <aneeshnl> ലോള്‍
10:02 PM <jaisuvyas> ഹ ഹ..
10:02 PM <manojkmohan> വരുമോ ?
10:02 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: വരാതിരിയ്ക്കില്ല
10:04 PM <j4v4m4n> aneeshnl: ബെഹ്ദാദിനെ ഒരു വീഡിയോ കോണ്‍ഫറന്‍സ് നോക്കിയോലോ?
10:04 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഡെല്‍ഹിയില്‍ നിന്നും വരുത്തണമെങ്കില്‍, ഇപ്പോ വിളിക്കണം..
10:04 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, +1 on the video conference thing
10:05 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, അതെ ഉദ്ഘാടനമല്ലാത്ത ഒരു സെഷന്‍ അങ്ങനെ നോക്കാം
10:05 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമിയിലെ കണക്റ്റിവിറ്റി ആണു പ്രശ്നം
10:06 PM <•anivar> അതു് ഒപ്പിക്കേണ്ടിവരും
10:06 PM <•anivar> അടുത്ത വിഷയം സാമ്പത്തികമാണ്
10:06 PM <•rajeesh> anivar: ഒരു ഡാറ്റാകാര്‍ഡു കൊണ്ടു തീരാവുന്ന പ്രശ്നമല്ലേയുള്ളൂ
10:06 PM <balasankarc> anivar, GSoC Fund അല്ലേ‌മെയിൻ ഫണ്ട്?
10:07 PM <manojkmohan> ഏഷ്യാനെറ്റിന്റെ നല്ലസ്പീഡുള്ള കണക്ഷന്‍ തന്നെ ശരിയാക്കാം. കാശെത്രവരുമെന്ന് അറിയില്ല. ബാക്കി കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ നോക്കേണ്ടിവരും
10:07 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, ജിസോക്ക് പൈസ നമുക്കല്ലല്ലോ ershad gem എന്നിവര്‍ക്കൊക്കെയല്ലേ
10:08 PM <•anivar> മ്മടെ കിട്ടിയാല്‍ കിട്ടി SPI വഴിയല്ലേ .
10:08 PM <aneeshnl> manojkmohan, Datacard will be ok
10:08 PM <•anivar> സ്പോണ്‍സര്‍ഷിപ്പ് നോക്കേണ്ടിവരും
10:08 PM <balasankarc> aneeshnl, സ്വമകയ്ക്ക് ഒന്നും കിട്ടില്ലേ??
10:09 PM <aneeshnl> anivar, Who would sponsor us?
10:09 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, ആരോടൊക്കെ ചോയ്ക്കാം
10:09 PM → kavya__ joined (~kavya@117.221.152.114)
10:09 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: നമുക്കു് ചോദിയ്ക്കാന്‍ പറ്റുന്ന ആരോടും
10:10 PM <manojkmohan> സ്പോണ്‍സര്‍ഷിപ്പുകള്‍ കാര്യമായി തന്നെ അന്വേഷിക്കേണ്ടിവരും. മൂന്ന് ദിവസത്തെ ഇവന്റ് എന്ന് പറയുമ്പോ അത്യാവശ്യം സാമ്പത്തിക ബാധ്യതയുണ്ട്
10:10 PM <•anivar> ITMission, Redhat , google, IT@school, Sahitya academy, Malayalam University മറ്റു കമ്പനികള്‍?
10:10 PM <•stultus> anivar, j4v4m4n കൂപ്പണടിച്ച് പിരിക്കാം :)
10:10 PM <j4v4m4n> stultus: +1
10:10 PM <manojkmohan> ലോക്കല്‍ ഉത്സാഹക്കമ്മറ്റി വിളിയ്ക്കണ്ടേ ?
10:11 PM <balasankarc> anivar, നമുക്ക് പിരിക്കാമെന്നേ...
10:11 PM <j4v4m4n> stultus: ഭാഗ്യ സമ്മാനം കൂടി ചേര്‍ത്താലോ? :)
10:11 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, 1500$- 5%cut+ Transaction charges കിട്ടും
10:11 PM <balasankarc> anivar, സംഭാവനകള്‍ കൂമ്പാരമാകുമ്പോള്‍ പരിപാടികള്‍ ഗംഭീരമാകും..
10:11 PM <manojkmohan> balasankarc, നീ കുറേ ആയല്ലോ പിരിച്ച് തുടങ്ങിയിട്ട് ;-)
10:11 PM <•anivar> പക്ഷേ എപ്പോ കിട്ടും എന്നറിയണം
10:11 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, j4v4m4n പഠിപ്പിച്ചതാ... സേവ് പോഡറി...
10:12 PM <•anivar> രൂപയുടെ വില പെരുകിയതിനാല്‍ വിദേശകറന്‍സികളില്‍ ശമ്പളം കിട്ടുന്നവര്‍ക്കൊക്കെ ദിനം തോറും ശമ്പളം കൂടുകയാണെന്നാണു് അറിയാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞതു് .
10:12 PM <•anivar> സമ്മര്‍ ഓഫ് കോഡ് ലഭിച്ചവരും 5000 ഡോളറിന്റെ വില പ്രോഗ്രാം അനൌണ്‍സ് ചെയ്യുമ്പോഴത്തിനേക്കാള്‍ 50000 രൂപയോളം കൂടിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇവരൊക്കെ സഹായിച്ചാല്‍ പരിപാടി അതിഗംഭീരമാക്കാ
10:12 PM <•anivar> ന്‍ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടു കാണില്ല എന്നു തോന്നുന്നു
10:12 PM <•anivar> #സ്വപ്നം
10:12 PM <•stultus> rajeesh, ^
10:12 PM <balasankarc> gem, ershad എത്ര ഇടും??
10:12 PM <j4v4m4n> balasankarc: നിന്റെ കഴിവുകള്‍ ഒരു നല്ല കാര്യത്തിനുപയോഗിച്ചതല്ലേ?
10:12 PM <•stultus> :D
10:12 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, :D
10:12 PM <gem> balasankarc: എത്ര ഇടണം?
10:12 PM <•anivar> സന്തോഷിനെ കാണാനില്ലല്ലോ
10:13 PM <manojkmohan> അതിന് പകരമല്ലേ kavya__
10:13 PM <•stultus> ping kavya__ ^
10:13 PM <manojkmohan> :-)
10:13 PM — aneeshnl is going for a meeting
10:13 PM <balasankarc> anivar, കാവ്യേച്ചി വരുന്നു, പോകുന്നു, വരുന്നു, പോകുന്നു..
10:13 PM <•rajeesh> stultus: ഏ, എന്ത്? ഇവിടെ എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും നൂറുരൂപ കൊടുക്കുന്നുണ്ടെന്നു കേട്ടൂ?
10:13 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, വിട്ടേക്ക്
10:13 PM <ershad> balasankarc: എത്ര ഇടണം? :)
10:13 PM <j4v4m4n> gem: ഇപ്പോഴത്തെ ഡോളര്‍ - എസ്ഒസി കിട്ടിയ സമയത്തെ ഡോളര്‍ :)
10:14 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ഇങ്ങളാ ഖജാൻജി... ഉത്തരം പറ...
10:14 PM <•stultus> j4v4m4n, +1 :D
10:14 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, +100
10:14 PM <manojkmohan> എനിക്ക് കൂപ്പണടിച്ചുള്ള പിരിവേ അറിയൂ
10:14 PM <•rajeesh> j4v4m4n: തകര്‍ത്ത്!
10:14 PM <jaisuvyas> anivar, സന്തോഷ് മറ്റെന്തോ കാര്യത്തിനു് തിരക്കിലാണെന്നറിയിച്ചു.
10:14 PM <•anivar> ershad, gem ആ മുഖഭാവം കാണാന്‍ പറ്റുന്നില്ല
10:14 PM <manojkmohan> കൂടി വന്നാ കാശുണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ ഓണത്തിന് പായസമുണ്ടാക്കുകയോ കുമ്മാട്ടി ഇറക്കുകയോ ചെയ്യും.
10:14 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeesh: യൂറോയ്ക്കു് വില കൂടി :)
10:15 PM <gem> j4v4m4n: പിന്നെന്താ.. ershad പകുതിതുക എനിക്ക് തരാമെന്നേറ്റിട്ടുണ്ട്.. ഞാന്‍ അത് മുഴുവന്‍ തരാം.. :P
10:15 PM <•rajeesh> j4v4m4n: സേവ് പോഡറി...
10:15 PM <gem> anivar: ^
10:15 PM <ershad> anivar ആലോചനയിലാ ;)
10:16 PM <•anivar> kavya_, വരുന്നു പോവുന്നു
10:16 PM <•anivar> എന്തുപറ്റി
10:16 PM <kavya_> കാവ്യ ഇവിടെ ഉണ്ട്. നെറ്റ്‌വര്‍ക്ക് ഇവിടെ ഇന്ന് തീരെ സ്റ്റേബിള്‍ അല്ല.
10:16 PM <kavya_> അതാണ് വരവും പോക്കും
10:17 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeesh: പോഡറി സേവായി... യൂറോ ഇപ്പോഴും താണില്ലല്ലോ :)
10:17 PM <•anivar> അതുപോലെ നമ്മള്‍ ചെയ്യേണ്ട ഒരു കാര്യം നമ്മുടെ ഡൊക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ നന്നാക്കുകയാണ്
10:17 PM <•anivar> എസ്സെംസിയുടെ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ വളരെ മോശമാണ്
10:17 PM <•anivar> വിക്കിയില്‍
10:18 PM <•anivar> നമ്മള്‍ക്ക് കുറച്ചു ഡോക്ക് കാമ്പുകള്‍ നടത്താനൊക്കുമോ
10:18 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: നടത്താം
10:18 PM <•anivar> ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ മാത്രം
10:18 PM <•rajeesh> anivar: ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷനു മാത്രമായി ക്യാമ്പുകള്‍ നടത്തുന്നതില്‍ കാര്യമില്ല
10:19 PM <balasankarc> anivar, വിക്കിയുടെ സൈറ്റ് ലേയൗട്ട്, ഒരു ഓര്‍ഗനൈസേഷന് തീരെ യൂസര്‍ ഫ്രണ്ട്ലി അല്ല എന്നാണ് എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം...
10:19 PM <balasankarc> anivar, സത്യം പറഞ്ഞാല്‍, വിക്കിപീഡിയക്ക് മാത്രമേ അത് യോജിച്ച് ഞാൻ കണ്ടിട്ടുള്ളൂ...
10:19 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, patch please
10:19 PM <•rajeesh> അതതു വിഷയത്തിന്റെ ഡെവലപ്പ്മെറന്റും ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷനും ഒരുമിച്ചു നടത്തണം
10:19 PM <manojkmohan> +++
10:20 PM <balasankarc> anivar, in my opinion, wiki site layout is not at all good for an organisation... less user friendly... in fact, i've seen it good only for wikipedia..
10:20 PM <•rajeesh> j4v4m4n: മന്മോഹനൊക്കെ ഭരിക്കുന്നതാണു നമ്മടെയൊക്കെ ഒരാശ്വാസം!
10:20 PM <balasankarc> anivar, my opinion only
10:21 PM <j4v4m4n> rajeesh: ചിദംബരവും മോശമില്ലല്ലോ
10:22 PM <•anivar> അപ്ലിക്കേഷന്‍ ഡൊകുയുമെന്റേഷന്‍ (യൂസര്‍ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ ) ചിലപ്പോള്‍ നന്നാവും . ഡെവലപ്പര്‍ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ ഫ്രഷേഴ്സിനെക്കൊണ്ടുപറ്റില്ലല്ലോ അതു് അടുത്ത പടിയല്ലേ
10:22 PM <•anivar> അതിന് ഇപ്പോ ഉള്ളവര്‍ വിചാരിക്കണം
10:22 PM <•rajeesh> anivar: അതാണു പറഞ്ഞത് അതതു വിഷയത്തിന്റെ ഡെവലപ്പ്മെറന്റും ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷനും ഒരുമിച്ചു നടത്തണം
10:23 PM <jaisuvyas> j4v4m4n, rajeesh എന്റെയൊക്കെ കഷ്ടകാലം. :(
10:23 PM <•stultus> വേറെ ഒരു ഐഡിയ
10:23 PM <•anivar> stultus, പറയൂ
10:23 PM <•stultus> ഈ അപ്ലിക്കേഷനുകള്‍ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന വര്‍ക്‌‌ഷോപ്പ് നടത്തുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ അതിന്റെ കൂടെ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ നടത്താം
10:24 PM <•rajeesh> stultus: +1
10:24 PM <manojkmohan> ++
10:24 PM <•anivar> stultus, +1
10:24 PM <•stultus> പുതിയ ആള്‍ക്കാര്‍ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷനില്‍ നിന്ന് എന്താണ് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് അപ്പൊ തന്നെ മനസിലാക്കാന്‍ പറ്റും :)
10:24 PM <balasankarc> anivar, documentation in Malayalam?
10:25 PM <jaisuvyas> stultus, കൊള്ളാം.
10:25 PM <manojkmohan> GEC,Thrissur , Vidya എഞ്ചി കോളേജുകളിലൊക്കെ നടത്തിയാല്‍ നമ്മുടെ പരിപാടിയ്ക്ക് കൂടി ഉപകാരമാകും
10:25 PM <•stultus> balasankarc, മലയാളത്തിലും ഇംഗ്ലീഷിലും വേണം
10:25 PM <manojkmohan> കൂടുതല്‍ താല്പര്യമുള്ളവരെത്തും
10:25 PM <jishnu7_> stultus, നല്ല ഐഡിയ ആണെങ്കിലും. സാധാരണ നടക്കുന്ന വര്‍ക്ഷോപ്പുകള്‍ ഒന്നും പ്ലാന്‍ ചെയ്തതു പോലും നടക്കുന്നത് കാണാറില്ല.
10:25 PM <balasankarc> stultus, idea is good, but time is doubtful...
10:25 PM <balasankarc> stultus, :)
10:26 PM <balasankarc> jishnu7_, അതന്നെ..
10:26 PM <j4v4m4n> jaisuvyas: പാവപ്പെട്ട ടാറ്റ, ബിര്‍ലാ, അംബാനിമാര്‍ക്കു് വേണ്ടി നമ്മളാ ത്യാഗം ഏറ്റെടുക്കണം :)
10:26 PM <•stultus> jishnu7_, ഡെവലപ്മെന്റിന്റെ കൂടെ ഡോക്യുമെന്റേഷന്‍ നടത്തുന്നതിലും എളുപ്പത്തില്‍ ഇതു നടക്കും :)
10:27 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഷെഡ്യൂള്‍ ഉണ്ടാക്കി തുടങ്ങണ്ടേ?
10:27 PM <j4v4m4n> ഭക്ഷണം വാങ്ങിയ്ക്കാനിറങ്ങട്ടേ. ശേഷം സ്ക്രീനില്‍.
10:28 PM <j4v4m4n> balasankarc: ഇന്നു് ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്തതങ്ങു് വിക്കിയില്‍ കയറ്റിയാല്‍ മതി
10:28 PM <balasankarc> anivar, രണ്ട് ദിവസം രണ്ട് തീം എന്നല്ലേ‌ ഫിക്സിയത്??
10:28 PM <•stultus> anivar, വരുന്നവര്‍ക്കുള്ള ഭക്ഷണം . അവരുടെ താമസം എന്നിവ ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യണ്ടേ?
10:29 PM <•stultus> manojkmohan, ^
10:29 PM <manojkmohan> വേണം
10:29 PM <manojkmohan> ലോക്കല്‍ ഉത്സാഹക്കമ്മറ്റി വിളിയ്ക്കണം
10:29 PM <•stultus> manojkmohan, j4v4m4n ഇടക്കിടക്ക് ലെമണ്‍ ടീ വിതരണം ചെയ്യണം :P
10:30 PM <balasankarc> stultus, anivar വര്‍ക്ക്ഷോപ്പ് ഒക്കെ ഫ്രീയാണോ?? അതോ ഫണ്ടിനു വേണ്ടി രെജിസ്റ്റ്രേഷൻ ഫീ ഉണ്ടോ?
10:30 PM <manojkmohan> ഭക്ഷണം KSA ക്യാമ്പസില്‍ കേറ്റാന്‍ പാടില്ല
10:30 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ^
10:30 PM <j4v4m4n> stultus: +1
10:30 PM <manojkmohan> നാരങ്ങാവെള്ളം കുടിയൊക്കെ അപ്നാ ചിലവി. അടുത്ത് തന്നെ സൗകര്യങ്ങളുണ്ട്. ഡോണ്ട് വറി
10:31 PM <manojkmohan> താമസത്തിന് അടുത്തുള്ള ഹോട്ടലുകള്‍ ബുക്ക് ചെയ്യാം. സൗകര്യങ്ങളുണ്ട്. പക്ഷേ ലോജിസ്റ്റിക്ക് കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക പാടാണ്
10:31 PM <manojkmohan> :-)
10:32 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, പട്ടാളത്തിന്റെ ഭക്ഷണരീതികളൊക്കെ സുഗുണനല്ലേ അറിയൂ.. അതോണ്ട് ഭക്ഷണം സുഗുണന്റെ വീട്ടിലാകട്ടെ... (സുഗുണൻ = മനോജ്)
10:32 PM <manojkmohan> ഫുഡ് എങ്ങനെ വേണമെന്ന് തിരുമാനിക്കണം. അക്കാദമി കോമ്പൗണ്ടില്‍ ഭക്ഷണവിതരണം പാടില്ല
10:32 PM <manojkmohan> ഞാന്‍ നാടു വിട്ടൂ balasankarc
10:32 PM <manojkmohan> :-D
10:33 PM <manojkmohan> gem, ന്റെ വീടാ അതിനും അടുത്ത്
10:33 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, പറഞ്ഞാ, അവള്‍ സ്വയം ചിലപ്പോ ഫുഡ് ഉണ്ടാക്കും... അത് പേടിച്ചാ പറയാത്തത്...
10:33 PM <gem> balasankarc: വന്നോ വന്നോ.. ഞാനുണ്ടാക്കിത്തരാം.. :P
10:34 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, abt registration fee??
10:34 PM <manojkmohan> കുളിപ്പിച്ച് കിടത്താന്‍ തന്ന്യാണല്ലെ പരിപാടി gem balasankarc
10:34 PM <manojkmohan> anivar,
10:34 PM <•anivar> stultus, ഭക്ഷണം അപ്നാ അപ്നാ
10:34 PM <manojkmohan> രജിസ്ട്രേഷന്‍ ഫീ
10:34 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ആഹ... നൈസ്..
10:35 PM <•anivar> സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി കോമ്പൌണ്ടില്‍ പുറത്തുനിന്നും ഭക്ഷണം കേറ്റീല്ലെന്നാണ് അറിവ്
10:35 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, അന്വേഷിക്കണേ
10:35 PM <manojkmohan> കോമണ്‍ ഫുഡ് വേണമെങ്കില്‍ വഴിയുണ്ടാക്കാം. അന്വേഷിക്കട്ടെ. കോപ്ലിക്കേറ്റഡ് ആവും.
10:35 PM <j4v4m4n> balasankarc: manojkmohan workshops നും രജിസ്ട്രേഷനാവാമെന്നു് തോന്നുന്നു
10:35 PM <•anivar> രജിസ്ട്രേഷനാവാം. ഫീ വെക്കണോ?
10:35 PM <manojkmohan> anivar, അക്കാദമിയുടെ ഉള്ളില്‍ ഭക്ഷണം പാടില്ല
10:35 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, ok... individual registration for each or general registration??
10:36 PM <balasankarc> anivar, like, for each workshop, Rs. 50 each..
10:36 PM <balasankarc> j4v4m4n, ^
10:36 PM <manojkmohan> ഫീ വയ്ക്കണോ ?
10:36 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: ഉപരോധം സ്റ്റൈല്‍ പാചകപ്പുരയായാലോ? തിരുവനന്തപുരത്താണേല്‍ പൊളിയ്ക്കാത്തവ നേരിട്ടുപയോഗിയ്ക്കാമായിരുന്നു :)
10:36 PM <•rajeesh> ഫീ വെക്കുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ തന്നെ കടുംവെട്ട് വെക്കരുത്
10:36 PM <•stultus> manojkmohan, aneeshnl ഫീ വെക്കണ്ടാ എന്നാണ് എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായം
10:36 PM <•stultus> anivar, ^
10:36 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, വേണ്ടാ എന്നേ‌ ഞാൻ പറയൂ...
10:36 PM <manojkmohan> ആദ്യം വരുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് ആദ്യം. ലിമിറ്റഡ് രജിസ്ട്രേഷന്‍ മതി
10:36 PM <j4v4m4n> stultus: ചെറിയ ഫീ ആവാമെന്നു് തോന്നുന്നു
10:37 PM <manojkmohan> ചെറിയ ഫീ പ്രശ്നമില്ല. ഒരു ഫണ്ട് സോഴ്സുമാണ്
10:37 PM <j4v4m4n> stultus: ആള്‍ക്കാരു് വരാനും സാധ്യത കൂടില്ലേ?
10:37 PM <•anivar> ഒരു രജിസ്ട്രേഷന്‍ ഫീ വെക്കാം മുന്‍കൂറായി . ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍ വഴി . ഒരു 200 രൂ. അവര്‍ക്ക് നമുക്ക് കാര്‍ഡും പാര്‍ട്ടിസിപ്പേഷന്‍ സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റും കൊടുക്കാം . പക്ഷേ വെനുവില്‍ അങ്
10:37 PM <•anivar> ങനെ ഒന്നും വേണ്ട
10:37 PM <balasankarc> anivar, no on-spot registrations .. അല്ലെ?
10:37 PM <•anivar> വിദ്യാര്‍ഥികള്‍ക്ക് ചിലപ്പോല്‍ പാര്‍ട്ടിസിപ്പേഷന്‍ സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ് വേണ്ടിവരും
10:37 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, അതെ
10:37 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: വോക്കെ
10:38 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ചിലപ്പോളല്ല്... തീര്‍ച്ചയായും വേണ്ടിവരും...
10:38 PM <manojkmohan> ടീ ഷര്‍ട്ട് ഇറക്കണം. അത്യാവശ്യം കാശ് വയ്ക്കാം. അതിന് നല്ല ചിലവുണ്ടാകും
10:38 PM <balasankarc> anivar, :D
10:38 PM <•anivar> അതെ
10:38 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, +2
10:38 PM <j4v4m4n> manojkmohan: good idea
10:38 PM <manojkmohan> സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റുകള്‍ വേണം.
10:38 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: manojkmohan Logbook കൂടുതല്‍ അടിയ്ക്കേണ്ടി വരില്ലേ?
10:38 PM <•anivar> അതെ മുന്‍കൂര്‍ രജിസ്റ്റര്‍ ചെയ്യുന്നവര്‍ക്ക് മാത്രം സര്‍ട്ടിഫിക്കറ്റ്
10:38 PM <manojkmohan> കോളേജിലെ പിള്ളേരെ അത് പറഞ്ഞിട്ടേ ഇറക്കാന്‍ പറ്റൂ
10:39 PM <manojkmohan> 50 കോപ്പി വീട്ടിലിരിപ്പുണ്ട്
10:39 PM <•anivar> 2 തരം രജിസ്ട്രേഷന്‍ . 200 വിത്തൌട്ട് ടീഷര്‍ട്ട് പാര്‍ട്ടിസിപ്പേഷന്‍+ബാഡ്ജ്
10:39 PM <manojkmohan> അകം ബുക്സിന്റെ കൈയ്യില്‍ 250 കോപ്പിയെങ്കിലും കാണില്ലേ !
10:39 PM <tachyons> .
10:39 PM <•anivar> 600 രൂപ ടീഷര്‍ട്ട് കൂടി
10:39 PM <manojkmohan> അത് നമുക്ക് വാങ്ങി വിതരണം ചെയ്തൂടെ ?
10:39 PM <jaisuvyas> ഭക്ഷണത്തിന്റെ കാര്യം പറഞ്ഞപ്പഴാ ഓര്‍ത്തതു്. വല്ലോം വെട്ടിവിഴുങ്ങീട്ടിപ്പ തിര്യെ വരാം.
10:39 PM <manojkmohan> anivar, +1
10:39 PM <•anivar> j4v4m4n, ആദ്യം ഉള്ളതു വാങ്ങി വിതരണം ചെയ്യുക
10:40 PM <j4v4m4n> anivar: ok
10:40 PM <manojkmohan> പുതിയതിപ്പൊ അടിയ്ക്കണ്ട എന്നാ അഭിപ്രായം. ചിലപ്പൊ സാമ്പത്തിക ബാധ്യതയായേക്കും
10:40 PM <•anivar> താമസത്തിനു KTDC ബുക്ക് ചെയ്യണം
10:40 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, വേണമെങ്കില്‍, ബുക്കിങ്ങ് നടത്താം..
10:40 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, എന്നിട്ട് പിന്നെ അടിക്കാം..
10:40 PM <manojkmohan> Ys
10:40 PM <•anivar> അവിടെ രണ്ട് 6 ബെഡ് ഡോര്‍മിറ്ററിയും ഒരു 8 ബെഡ് ഡോര്‍മിറ്ററിയും ഉണ്ട്
10:40 PM <j4v4m4n> balasankarc: +1
10:40 PM — •stultus നു ഇറങ്ങാന്‍ ടൈമായി. ആരെങ്കിലും ലോഗ് ഷെയര്‍ ചെയ്യൂ.. ഗുഡ് നൈറ്റ്
10:40 PM <•anivar> അതു നമുക്കു മതിയാവില്ലെ
10:41 PM <balasankarc> stultus, കബൂല്‍..
10:41 PM <•anivar> ഓണ്‍ലൈന്‍ ബുക്കിങ്ങിന് 10% ഓഫോ മറ്റോ ഉണ്ട്
10:41 PM <•anivar> അപ്പോ ബൈ
10:41 PM <manojkmohan> അക്കാദമിയുടെ അടുത്തുള്ളതിന്റെ പേരുമറന്നു KYMC
10:41 PM <manojkmohan> അവിടെയും സൗകര്യമുണ്ട്
10:41 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, അതു പിന്നെ
10:41 PM <•anivar> YMCA
10:41 PM <manojkmohan> അതെ
10:41 PM <•anivar> ആദ്യം KTDC പോട്ടെ
10:41 PM <•anivar> മറ്റേതു റെന്റ് കൂടുതലാ
10:42 PM <•anivar> ഡൊര്‍മിറ്ററിയും ഇല്ല
10:42 PM <manojkmohan> അടുത്ത ദിവസം ടൗണില്‍ പോകുമ്പൊ അന്വേഷിക്കാം
10:42 PM <manojkmohan> ആരെങ്കിലും അഡ്വാന്‍സ് ചെയ്താല്‍ ബുക്ക് ചെയ്ത് വയ്ക്കാം
10:42 PM <manojkmohan> :-)
10:42 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, നോക്കാം
10:42 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ഒരു ഡൗട്ട്... രാത്രി എത്ര വരെയാ പരിപാടി??
10:43 PM <manojkmohan> 8
10:43 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ok... ( വീട്ടിലെത്താനുള്ള വകുപ്പുണ്ടോന്ന് അന്വേഷിക്കണമല്ലോ... ;) )
10:43 PM <manojkmohan> അത് ഒന്നുകൂടി ചോദിച്ച് ഉറപ്പുവരുത്താമ്
10:43 PM <manojkmohan> balasankarc, അയ്യേ
10:44 PM <manojkmohan> രണ്ടൂം ടൗണില്‍ നില്‍ക്കഡോ
10:44 PM <manojkmohan> അത്യാവശ്യം പണിയും ചുമതലയും ഉണ്ടാവും
10:44 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, 12 muthal 15 വരെ നിന്റെ താമസം തൃശ്ശൂരില്‍
10:44 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, എന്നെ തീറ്റിപ്പോറ്റാൻ മുതലാകില്ല..
10:44 PM <•anivar> നീയൊക്കെവേണം നടത്താന്‍
10:44 PM <manojkmohan> അതിന് മുമ്പേ പൊക്കേണ്ടിവരും. നീ വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച രാത്രി ഇങ്ങോട്ട് പോര് balasankarc
10:44 PM <•anivar> പണിയെടുക്കുന്നവരുടെ ചെലവ് കമ്പനി
10:44 PM <balasankarc> anivar, manojkmohan കബൂല്‍....
10:45 PM <gem> anivar: എന്താ ചിലവോ..? പണിവല്ലോമുണ്ടോ ചേട്ടാ..? :P
10:47 PM <manojkmohan> പണികളിക്കെ കയ്യോടെ തരാം gem
10:47 PM <manojkmohan> anivar, ലോക്കല്‍ ഉത്സാഹക്കമ്മറ്റി വിയ്ക്കണം. എന്നാലെ ഒരു ധാരണയാവൂ
10:47 PM <tachyons> .
10:48 PM <ershad> manojkmohan: സത്യം
10:48 PM j4v4m4n → j4v4m4n_in_searc
10:49 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, വേണമ്വ്
10:49 PM j4v4m4n_in_searc → j4v4m4n_food
10:49 PM <manojkmohan> അടുത്ത ശുഭ മുഹൂര്‍ത്തത്തില്‍ തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ പിജി സെന്ററില്‍ ലോജിസ്റ്റിക്കല്‍ കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ തിരുമാനിക്കാന്‍ ഒരു മീറ്റിങ്ങ്
10:49 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, തീര്‍ച്ചയായും
10:49 PM <j4v4m4n_food> manojkmohan: അടുത്താഴ്ച ഞാന്‍ നാട്ടില്‍ കാണും
10:49 PM <•anivar> BTW j4v4m4n_food , jishnu7_ , SoorajKenoth are here at my place
10:49 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, രണ്ടാന്തി കഴിഞ്ഞുള്ള ഞായര്‍?
10:49 PM <•anivar> :-)
10:50 PM <•anivar> Lets close the meeting
10:50 PM <manojkmohan> രഞ്ജിത്ത് മാഷ് സഹകരിക്കും. പരസ്യങ്ങള്‍ എവിടുന്നൊക്കെ വാങ്ങണമെന്ന് ആലോചിക്കണം. സ്വര്‍ണ്ണം-സാരിക്കടകളൊക്കെ ചുമ്മാ പോയി നോക്കാം
10:50 PM <•anivar> manojkmohan, അതു ഇപ്പോ ഉടനെ വേണ്ട
10:51 PM <•anivar> ആദ്യം അല്ലാതെ കിട്ടുന്നതു നോക്കിയിട്ടു മതി
10:51 PM <•anivar> ഒരു രണ്ടാഴ്ച അതിന്
10:51 PM <balasankarc> anivar, ക്ലോസ് ചെയ്യാമെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞാല്‍... ഒരു ഐറ്റം പോലും ഫിക്സിയില്ലല്ലോ?? എന്ത് വര്‍ക്ക്ഷോപ്പുകള്‍??
10:51 PM <•anivar> ഒരു കമ്മിറ്റിയുണ്ടാക്കണം
10:51 PM <•anivar> balasankarc, ഏകദേശം ഒരു ധാരണയായല്ലോ
10:52 PM <•anivar> ആ ഫ്രെയിമിട്ട് അതിനുപുറത്ത് ഇനി ചര്‍ച്ച നടത്താം
10:52 PM <balasankarc> anivar, hmm..
10:52 PM <tachyons> ഏപ്പോള്‍
10:52 PM anivar → •anivar_food
10:53 PM <•anivar_food> tachyons, ലിസ്റ്റില്‍ പറയാം
10:53 PM <manojkmohan> എല്ലാ വീക്കെന്റും IRC വച്ചോളൂ. എന്നാലേ കൃത്യമായ പ്രോഗ്രസ്സ് അറിയൂ. അധികം സമയമില്ല. കഷ്ടി രണ്ട് മാസം
10:53 PM <•stultus> balasankarc, പരിപാടി ഒരു മാസം കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടാണിഷ്ടാ ..
10:53 PM <•stultus> manojkmohan, +1
10:53 PM <balasankarc> manojkmohan, ദത് നൈസ്...
10:53 PM → tachyons and tachyons_ joined
10:53 PM <balasankarc> stultus, നിങ്ങ പോയില്ലേ??
10:54 PM <•stultus> അപ്പൊ ഞാന്‍ പോയി
10:54 PM <•stultus> balasankarc, ദേ പോണു.. :D
10:54 PM <balasankarc> stultus, bye
10:56 PM <manojkmohan> യോഗം പിരിച്ചുവിട്ടോ !
10:56 PM <manojkmohan> അപ്പൊ എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും ശുഭരാത്രി
10:56 PM <balasankarc> ശുഭരാത്രി..
10:57 PM <tachyons_> എല്ലാവരും സമാദാനപരമായി പിരിഞു പോകുക
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ഒരു നിരീക്ഷകന്റെ കുറിപ്പുകൾ - പ്രസാധനം

2013-08-06T15:01:19Z

Jishnu7: I want book. I forgot to add my name here!

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[[File:Logbook of an Observer (cover page).jpg|thumb|200px|Logbook of an Observer (കവര്‍ പേജ്) by ഹിരണ്‍ വേണുഗോപാല്‍]]

ജിനേഷിന്റെ ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെയും , ജിനേഷിനെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള സുഹൃത്തുക്കളുടെ ഓര്‍മ്മക്കുറിപ്പുകളുടെയും സമാഹാരം - '''A Logbook of an Observer - ഒരു നിരീക്ഷകന്റെ കുറിപ്പുകള്‍''', ഫെബ്രുവരിയില്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകൃതമാവുകയാണ്. ഇതിന്റെ പ്രകാശനം സെപ്റ്റംബറില്‍ എം ഇ എസ് കോളേജില്‍ നടന്ന [[ഓര്‍മ്മകളില്‍_ജിനേഷ്_,_SMC_കൂട്ടായ്മ|എസ് എം സി കൂട്ടായ്മയില്‍]] നടന്ന വിവരം താങ്കള്‍ അറിഞ്ഞുകാണുമല്ലോ.
കണ്ണൂരിലെ അകം ബുക്സാണ് പ്രസാധകര്‍. 200 രൂപയാണ് മുഖവില നിശ്ചയിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്. തുടക്കത്തില്‍ ചുരുക്കം എണ്ണം കോപ്പികളേ അച്ചടിക്കുന്നുള്ളൂ. കൃത്യം എണ്ണം ഇതുവരെ നിശ്ചയിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. അതിനാല്‍ താങ്കള്‍ക്ക് ഇതിന്റെ ഒരു കോപ്പി ആവശ്യമെങ്കില്‍ നേരത്തേ തന്നെ പേര് ചുവടെ ചേര്‍ക്കുമല്ലോ. എത്ര കോപ്പികള്‍ അച്ചടിക്കണമെന്ന് നിശ്ചയിക്കാന്‍ ഇതു എളുപ്പമായിരിക്കും. കൂടാതെ ഇത്തരത്തില്‍ പേര് ചേര്‍ത്തവരില്‍ നിന്ന് 200 രൂപ ശേഖരിക്കുന്നതിനും പുസ്തകം എത്തിക്കുന്നതിനും സന്നദ്ധപ്രവര്‍ത്തകരെ ആവശ്യമുണ്ട്.
നിങ്ങള്‍ സഹായിക്കാന്‍ സന്നദ്ധനാണെങ്കില്‍ എസ് എം സി മെയിലിങ്ങ് ലിസ്റ്റില്‍ സന്നദ്ധത അറിയിക്കുക.

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GSoC/2013/Project ideas

2013-05-02T07:50:28Z

Jishnu7: moved i18n to silpa section

=Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal ('''santhosh''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Baiju M ('''baijum''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Praveen A ('''j4v4m4n''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Rajeesh K Nambiar ('''rajeeshknambiar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Vasudev Kammath ('''copyninja''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Jishnu Mohan ('''jishnu7''' on irc.freenode.net)
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# Anivar Aravind ('''anivar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Anilkumar K V ('''anilkumar''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Sajjad Anwar ('''geohacker''' on irc.freenode.net)
# Deepa V Gopinath ('''deepagopinath''' on irc.freenode.net)
# jain Basil ('''jainbasil''' on irc.freenode.net)

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013=
* Please Read the [http://wiki.smc.org.in/SoC/2013#FAQ FAQ]

<big>'''Apart from the following ideas , you can propose your own ideas'''</big>

If you want to propose an idea, please do it in [http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-smc.org.in project mailing list]>

== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==
'''Project''':

SILPA project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

Recently Tamil attempted developing a spellchecker using Hunspell with multi level suffix stripping. You can see the result here https://github.com/thamizha/solthiruthi.
Our attempt should be first to use Hunspell to achieve spellchecking with agglutination and inflection. Probably it will require lot of scripting to generate suffix patterns, we can ask help from existing language communities too. If Hunspell has limitation with multi level suffxes- sometimes Indian languages require more than 5 levels of suffix stripping, we need to document it(bug and documentation) and try to attempt python based solution on top of SILPA framework.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12558 Savannah Task]'''
* '''Expertise required''': Average level understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language
* Complexity: Advanced
* '''Mentor''' : Santhosh Thottingal

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==
'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX. but MKII is deprecated, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12559 Savannah Task]
* '''Expertise required''': Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

* '''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

* '''More Details''': ConTeXt mkii (deprecated) can work with XeTeX backend for Indic rendering. Here is a sample file:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[malayalam][script=mlym]
\setmainfont[Rachana][features=malayalam]
\starttext
മലയാളം \TeX ഉപയോഗിച്ച് ടൈപ്പ്സെറ്റ് ചെയ്തത്
\stoptext
Generate the output using command
texexec --xetex <file.tex>

==Automated Rendering Testing==
'''Project''':

Automated Rendering Testing system for Indic languages. Currently there exists 3 main rendering engines in computing world - Uniscribe of Microsoft, CoreText (Apple Advance Typography - AAT) of Apple and Harfbuzz for *nix systems. The Opentype font specification is maintained by Microsoft and implemented in Uniscribe, which is used as baseline for Harfbuzz. At present, there is no automated mechanism to determine if Harfbuzz is rendering complex Indic text correctly or not - someone expert in relevant language has to manually inspect the output from hb-view. The project aim is to identify and implement an automated method to test the rendering.
One method to do this might be to check the order of glyphs/glyph indices output by the rendering engine - this depends on the font too. A related topic is UTRRS

* '''[https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?12560 Savannah Task]'''
* '''Expertise required''': Knowledge of Indic language rendering and Opentype specification.
* '''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

====More Details====
* https://fedorahosted.org/utrrs/
* http://tdil-dc.in/utrrs/home/about

==SILPA BASED==
===Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa===
'''Project''': Silpa is being re-written using flask framework. Core part is almost complete. But most of the sub modules written under old framework are need to be ported to [http://flasksilpa-indic.rhcloud.com/ new framework].

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/ Jishnu

===Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC===
'''Project''': Silpa is now relying on JSONRPC. We need to, either completely move to REST API or provide REST API as an additional feature.

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

===Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi===
'''Project''': The templates used as User Interface is part of SILPA. this should be separated and should come as a part of individual modules.

[https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it

'''Expertise required''':python,Flask, HTML,Javascript,CSS,jinja

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

===add Urdu/Arabic support for all modules in SILPA.===

'''Expertise required''':python,Flask, HTML,Javascript,CSS,jinja

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev

=== Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library ===
'''Project''': Port some of the silpa algorithms to Jquery.

Several modules, alogorithms in SILPA project is done in python now. But porting them to javascript(jQuery) helps developers. For example, cross language transliteration can be done jquery too if we port the algorithm and transliteration rules. Similarly the approximate search can be ported. A flexibile fuzzy search on the web pages will be possible if we have the algorithm in jquery. ALternatively these js libraries can be used with node.js using server side js concept too.

'''Expertise required''': javascript,JQuery, python

'''Mentor''' :Jishnu

=== Improving cross language transliteration system. ===
'''Project''':

Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration

CLDR has transliteration data for Indic languages. We can explore it and see the feasibility. For an intermediate representation of the scripts either IPA can be used or ISO 15919 standard can be used. All these must be supplemented with exception rules and special case handling to achieve more perfect result.

'''Expertise required''':python

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

=== Internationalize SILPA project with Wikimedia jquery projects , Improve the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and provide more Indic and complex fonts as part of it ===
'''Project''':

'''Internationalize SILPA''' :- SILPA project has many Indic language applications, but as of now, if somebody want to input in Indian languages, there is no built in tool in it. Similarly, the application is not internationalized. Both of these can be achieved by using the [//github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime jquery.ime] and [//github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime jquery.i18n] libraries from Wikimedia. A sample implementation is avaliable in our [http://smc.org.in website]. The i18n should be in the SILPA flask framework with a nice templating system. Similarly the interface should have webfonts using [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.webfonts jquery.webfonts] library.

'''Improve the webfonts ''' :-
* Currently Silpa provides 36 webfonts. add more fonts to this collection.
* Rewrote webfonts module to use the features of jquery.webfonts
* reate a repo as per jquery.webfonts specification
* Provide a clean api so that other websites can use our webfonts in their websites
* Document the usage
* Provide font preview and download options

====More Details====
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n jquery.i18n]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime jquery.ime]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.webfonts jquery.webfonts]

'''Expertise required''': jQuery, css, html5, Python , flask , technical understanding about fonts

'''Mentor''' : Hrishikesh K B / Sajjad Anwar

==Building a system and API's for accessing and upadating Malayalamgrandham Bibligiography Data==
[http://www.malayalagrandham.com/about/ Malayala Grantha Vivaram] is a project intended to make available reliable bibliographic information on all Malayalam books published in Kerala and elsewhere. This Open data set contains Complete bibliography data from first Impression to 1995. This project wants to add following features to Malayalagrandham DB and build it as a bibliography web service
* Facility for adding/linking copyright expired books to malaylagrandha vivaram
* Adding ISBN & ISBN based seller discovery
* Building Interface for Publishers through with they can contribute their publication bibliography .
* Similar module for Libraries . That will be added to found in library section of each book
* A module for building qr code of bibliography with a malayalagrandham link
* Crowd sourced way for input and an approval queue interface for submissions.
* MARC21 and MARCXML support
* A dynamic visualisation interface for book information browsing
* proper API , and app work flow documentation

'''Expertise required''': Django / Ruby on Rails

'''Mentor''': Anivar

'''Related Links'''
* https://github.com/smc/malayalagrandham
* http://malayalagrandham.com/about

== Adding Braille Keyboard layouts for Indian Languages to m17n Library==

Project is building support for Bharati Braille keyboard layouts in GNU/Linux systemes. Bharati Braille standard is the official Braille standard in India. A regular QWERTY keyboard is used for data entry. SDF-JKL keys are used for six dots of Braille. This support need to be built as m17n layouts. This will enable visually challenged people who studied braille layouts to use GNU/Linux systems easily with the help of Audio feedback from TTS

====More Details====
* http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/disabilities/bh_brl.php
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharati_Braille
* http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/

'''Mentor''': Anilkumar K V

==Developing Malayalam Calendar Support ==

This project is to build Malayalam Calendar support to KDE. Korganiser have support for many calendars like Saka, Hijri, Jalali. The project is to build support for Malayalam Calendar (Kolla Varsham)

Following tasks are part of this work .
* Building Malayalam (kollavarsham) Calendar support to KDE/KOrganiser.
* Add holidays and other special times.

====More Details====
* Understanding of Astronomical Algorithms
* http://malayalam.usvishakh.net/calendars/panj_theory.pdf
* https://github.com/smc/smc/tree/master/calendar/java/src/org/panchanga/indic

==== Starting Points ====

* [https://github.com/smc/smc/tree/master/calendar/kde Build KDE from source]
* Familiarize with how Saka and other calendars are done.

'''Mentor''': Praveen A, Mahesh M

==Language model and Acoustic model for Malayalam language for speech recognition system in CMU Sphinx==

CMU Sphinx is a large vocabulary, speaker independent speech recognition codebase and suite of tools, which can be used to develop speech recognition system in any language. To develop an automatic speech recognition system in a language, acoustic model and language model has to framed for that particular language. Acoustic models characterize how sound changes over time. It captures the characteristics of basic recognition units. The language model describes the likelihood, probability, or penalty taken when a sequence or collection of words is seen. It attempts to convey behavior of the language and tries to predict the occurrence of specific word sequences possible in the language. Once these two models are developed, it will be useful to every one doing research in speech processing. For Indian languages Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Marati, ASR systems have been developed using sphinx engine. In this project work is aimed at developing acoustic model and language model for Malayalam.

'''Mentor''': Deepa P. Gopinath
=== Background Reading ===

* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gopalakr/publications/spdatabases_specom05.pdf 'Development of Indian Language Speech Databases for Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition Systems'], Gopalakrishna Anumanchipalli, Rahul Chitturi, Sachin Joshi, Rohit Kumar, Satinder Pal Singh, R.N.V. Sitaram, S P Kishore

* [http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W12/W12-5808.pdf "Automatic Pronunciation Evaluation And Mispronunciation Detection Using CMUSphinx"], Ronanki Srikanth, James Salsman

* http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/
* http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial

* [http://www.ijarcsse.com "HTK Based Telugu Speech Recognition"], P. Vijai Bhaskar, AVNIET ,Hyderabad, Prof. Dr. S. Rama Mohan Rao, A.Gopi

* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~araza/Automatic_Speech_Recognition_System_for_Urdu.PDF "Design and Development of an Automatic Speech Recognition System for Urdu"], Agha Ali Raza, M.Sc. Thesis, FAST‐National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

* [http://www.ccis2k.org/iajit/PDF/vol.6,no.2/11IASRUCSS186.pdf "Investigation Arabic Speech Recognition Using CMU Sphinx System"], Hassan Satori1, 2, Hussein Hiyassat3, Mostafa Harti1, 2, and Noureddine Chenfour

* [http://www.try.idv.tw/static-resources/homework/pr/PR_Final_Report.pdf "Understanding the CMU Sphinx Speech Recognition System"], Chun-Feng Liao

==Enhancement of Indic Language Support in Scribus==

===Project Description===

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/UNIX. Find more about scribus [http://www.scribus.net here]. Indic Languages are not supported completely in Scribus as of now. As a result of the work done by a group of developers from India, there is a branch available in Scribus public git repo which supports Indic Languages. The aim of this idea is to Enhance the Indic language support solving the following issues:

* Harfbuzz is being used as a thrid party code in Scribus. Maintaining thirdparty code is a tedious task, this should be added as a dependency instead.
* Enhance hyphenation by adding hyphenation rules.

'''Expertise Required:''' Good understanding of C, C++, Qt, Harfbuz etc, cmake.

===More information===

* Branch indic in scribus public git repository. Clone url: git clone git://git.scribus.net/scribus.git
* [[Hyphenation]]
* [http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Git#To_sum_it_up_:_how_to_get_and_compile_a_specific_branch_:_indic_of_scribus.git Compile scribus indic branch]

'''Mentor''' : Jain Basil Aliyas (jainbasil in IRC)

'''Complexity''' : Advanced

GSoC/2013/Project ideas

2013-04-02T06:18:39Z

Jishnu7: /* Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC */

=Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal
# Baiju M
# Praveen A
# Rajeesh K Nambiar
# Vasudev Kammath
# Hussain K.H
# Jishnu Mohan
# Hrishikesh K.B
# Anivar Aravind

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013=

== Internationalize SILPA project with Wikimedia jquery projects==
'''Project''':

SILPA project has many Indic language applications, but as of now, if somebody want to input in Indian languages, there is no built in tool in it. Similarly, the application is not internationalized. Both of these can be achieved by using the jquery.ime and jquery.i18n libraries from Wikimedia. A sample implementation is avaliable in our [http://smc.org.in website]. The i18n should be in the SILPA flask framework with a nice templating system. Similarly the interface should have webfonts using jquery.webfonts library.
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n jquery.i18n]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime jquery.ime]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.webfonts jquery.webfonts]

'''Expertise required''': jquery, css, html5, python

'''Mentor''' : Hrishikesh

== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==
'''Project''':

SILPA project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language

'''Mentor''' : Santhosh Thottingal

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==
'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII is supposed to have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX, but in practice we have found it lacking. MKII is deprecated anyway, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''Expertise required''':
Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

==Automated Rendering Testing==
'''Project''':

Automated Rendering Testing system for Indic languages. Currently there exists 3 main rendering engines in computing world - Uniscribe of Microsoft, CoreText (Apple Advance Typography - AAT) of Apple and Harfbuzz for *nix systems. The Opentype font specification is maintained by Microsoft and implemented in Uniscribe, which is used as baseline for Harfbuzz. At present, there is no automated mechanism to determine if Harfbuzz is rendering complex Indic text correctly or not - someone expert in relevant language has to manually inspect the output from hb-view. The project aim is to identify and implement an automated method to test the rendering.
One method to do this might be to check the order of glyphs/glyph indices output by the rendering engine - this depends on the font too. A related topic is UTRRS https://fedorahosted.org/utrrs/, http://tdil-dc.in/utrrs/home/about

'''Expertise required''':
Knowledge of Indic language rendering and Opentype specification.

'''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

== Create Bold and Italic variants for Meera and Rachana ==
'''Project''' :The Meera font has only regular version now. Synthetic bold and italic is not perfect and suitable for Malayalam. Create a bold and italic variant version for the Meera and Rachana fonts

'''Expertise required''':
Digital typography, good understanding of Malayalam writing system, fontforge, understanding of rendering engines like Harfbuzz.

'''Possible Mentor''' : Hussain K H

==Flask Based SILPA==
===Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa===
'''Project''': Silpa is being re-written using flask framework. Core part is almost complete. But most of the sub modules written under old framework are need to be ported to [http://flasksilpa-indic.rhcloud.com/ new framework].

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Rajeeesh Nambiar/ Jishnu

===Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC===
'''Project''': Silpa is now relying on JSONRPC. We need to, either completely move to REST API or provide REST API as an additional feature.

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

===Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi===
'''Project''': The templates used as User Interface is part of SILPA. this should be separated and should come as a part of individual modules.

[https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it

'''Expertise required''':python,Flask, HTML,Javascript,CSS,jinja

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

== Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library ==
'''Project''': Port some of the silpa algorithms to Jquery.

'''Expertise required''': javascript,JQuery, python

'''Mentor''' :Vasudev/Jishnu

== Improving cross language transliteration system. ==
'''Project''':

Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration

'''Expertise required''':python

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

== Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it. ==
'''Project''':Currently Silpa provides 36 webfonts. add more fonts to this collection.

'''Expertise required''':jQuery, Python , technical understanding about fonts

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

==Adding Indic Sript Rendering Support to GIS applications ==
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik===
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
* http://mapnik.org/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/
===Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.===
Both are OSGeo projects, and used in most of the WebGIS applications recently. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. OpenLayers is used by OpenStreetMap for its "slippy map" map interface.
* http://www.mapserver.org/
* http://www.openlayers.org/
* http://www.osgeo.org/
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.===
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
* http://grass.osgeo.org/

'''Mentor''': Praveen A

==Building a systme and API's for accessing and upadating Malayalamgrandham Bibligiography Data==
[http://www.malayalagrandham.com/about/ Malayala Grantha Vivaram] is a project intended to make available reliable bibliographic information on all Malayalam books published in Kerala and elsewhere. This Open data set contains Complete bibliography data from first Impression to 1995. This project wants to add following features to Malayalagrandham DB and build it as a bibliography web service
* Facility for adding copyright expired books to malaylagrandha vivaram
* Adding ISBN
* Building Interface for Publishers through with they can contribute their publication bibliography .
* Similar module for Libraries . That will be added to found in library section of each book
* A module for building qr code of bibliography with a malayalagrandham link . It can be used by publishers and libraries
* Crowd sourced way for input and an evaluation interface for submissions.
* MARC21 and MARCXML support

'''Expertise required''':

'''Mentor''': Baiju M /Anivar

GSoC/2013/Project ideas

2013-04-02T06:12:22Z

Jishnu7: /* Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa */

=Mentors=
# Santhosh Thottingal
# Baiju M
# Praveen A
# Rajeesh K Nambiar
# Vasudev Kammath
# Hussain K.H
# Jishnu Mohan
# Hrishikesh K.B
# Anivar Aravind

=Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013=

== Internationalize SILPA project with Wikimedia jquery projects==
'''Project''':

SILPA project has many Indic language applications, but as of now, if somebody want to input in Indian languages, there is no built in tool in it. Similarly, the application is not internationalized. Both of these can be achieved by using the jquery.ime and jquery.i18n libraries from Wikimedia. A sample implementation is avaliable in our [http://smc.org.in website]. The i18n should be in the SILPA flask framework with a nice templating system. Similarly the interface should have webfonts using jquery.webfonts library.
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n jquery.i18n]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime jquery.ime]
* [https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.webfonts jquery.webfonts]

'''Expertise required''': jquery, css, html5, python

'''Mentor''' : Hrishikesh

== A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections ==
'''Project''':

SILPA project has a spellchecker written using python with a not so simple algorithm. But still it is not capable of handling inflection and agglutination occurring in Indian languages especially south Indian languages. The dictionary we have for Malayalam spellchecker have about 150000 words. Of course we can expand the dictionary, but that doesn't have much value since words can be formed in Malayalam or Tamil etc by joining multiple words. In addition to that, words get inflected based on grammar forms(sandhi), plural, gender etc. Hunspell has a system to handle this, but so far nobody succeeded in getting it working for multi level suffix stripping as required for Malayalam. Some times a Malayalam word can be formed by more than 5 words joining together. We will need a word splitting logic or a table taking care of all patterns. The project is to attempt solving this with hunspell. If that is not feasible(hunspell upstream is not active), develop an algorithm and implement it.

'''Expertise required''': Basic understanding of grammar system of at least one Indian language

'''Mentor''' : Santhosh Thottingal

==Indic rendering support in ConTeXt==
'''Project''':

ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. To find more information about ConTeXt, see the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page. ConTeXt MKII is supposed to have Indic language rendering support using XeTeX, but in practice we have found it lacking. MKII is deprecated anyway, and the new MKIV backend doesn't support Indic rendering yet. The aim of this project is to add support to Inidic rendering to ConTeXt MKIV. XeTeX is using Harfbuzz to do correct Indic rendering.

'''Expertise required''':
Understanding of the TeX system, experience in either LaTeX or ConTeXt and basic understanding of Indic language rendering. MKIV uses Lua, familiarity with Lua, opentype specifications or Harfbuzz will be added advantage.

'''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

==Automated Rendering Testing==
'''Project''':

Automated Rendering Testing system for Indic languages. Currently there exists 3 main rendering engines in computing world - Uniscribe of Microsoft, CoreText (Apple Advance Typography - AAT) of Apple and Harfbuzz for *nix systems. The Opentype font specification is maintained by Microsoft and implemented in Uniscribe, which is used as baseline for Harfbuzz. At present, there is no automated mechanism to determine if Harfbuzz is rendering complex Indic text correctly or not - someone expert in relevant language has to manually inspect the output from hb-view. The project aim is to identify and implement an automated method to test the rendering.
One method to do this might be to check the order of glyphs/glyph indices output by the rendering engine - this depends on the font too. A related topic is UTRRS https://fedorahosted.org/utrrs/, http://tdil-dc.in/utrrs/home/about

'''Expertise required''':
Knowledge of Indic language rendering and Opentype specification.

'''Mentor''' : Rajeesh K Nambiar

== Create Bold and Italic variants for Meera and Rachana ==
'''Project''' :The Meera font has only regular version now. Synthetic bold and italic is not perfect and suitable for Malayalam. Create a bold and italic variant version for the Meera and Rachana fonts

'''Expertise required''':
Digital typography, good understanding of Malayalam writing system, fontforge, understanding of rendering engines like Harfbuzz.

'''Possible Mentor''' : Hussain K H

==Flask Based SILPA==
===Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa===
'''Project''': Silpa is being re-written using flask framework. Core part is almost complete. But most of the sub modules written under old framework are need to be ported to [http://flasksilpa-indic.rhcloud.com/ new framework].

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Rajeeesh Nambiar/ Jishnu

===Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC===
'''Project''':

'''Expertise required''': Python , Flask , Jinja , HTML, Javascript

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

===Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi===
'''Project''': The templates used as User Interface is part of SILPA. this should be separated and should come as a part of individual modules.

[https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it

'''Expertise required''':python,Flask, HTML,Javascript,CSS,jinja

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

== Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library ==
'''Project''': Port some of the silpa algorithms to Jquery.

'''Expertise required''': javascript,JQuery, python

'''Mentor''' :Vasudev/Jishnu

== Improving cross language transliteration system. ==
'''Project''':

Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration

'''Expertise required''':python

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

== Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it. ==
'''Project''':Currently Silpa provides 36 webfonts. add more fonts to this collection.

'''Expertise required''':jQuery, Python , technical understanding about fonts

'''Mentor''' : Vasudev/Jishnu

==Adding Indic Sript Rendering Support to GIS applications ==
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik===
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
* http://mapnik.org/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/
===Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.===
Both are OSGeo projects, and used in most of the WebGIS applications recently. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. OpenLayers is used by OpenStreetMap for its "slippy map" map interface.
* http://www.mapserver.org/
* http://www.openlayers.org/
* http://www.osgeo.org/
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.===
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
* http://grass.osgeo.org/

'''Mentor''': Praveen A

==Building a systme and API's for accessing and upadating Malayalamgrandham Bibligiography Data==
[http://www.malayalagrandham.com/about/ Malayala Grantha Vivaram] is a project intended to make available reliable bibliographic information on all Malayalam books published in Kerala and elsewhere. This Open data set contains Complete bibliography data from first Impression to 1995. This project wants to add following features to Malayalagrandham DB and build it as a bibliography web service
* Facility for adding copyright expired books to malaylagrandha vivaram
* Adding ISBN
* Building Interface for Publishers through with they can contribute their publication bibliography .
* Similar module for Libraries . That will be added to found in library section of each book
* A module for building qr code of bibliography with a malayalagrandham link . It can be used by publishers and libraries
* Crowd sourced way for input and an evaluation interface for submissions.
* MARC21 and MARCXML support

'''Expertise required''':

'''Mentor''': Baiju M /Anivar

GSoC/2013

2013-03-27T07:14:21Z

Jishnu7: add android app ideas

[[file:Soc.png|right]]
==Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013==
===Indic rendering support in ConTeXt.===
ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. (We already have rendering module
in SILPA this can be improved to allow the implementation of above
idea. )

===Automated Rendering Testing===
===Silpa Related===
* Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa.
* Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC.
* Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi [https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it
* Integrating jquery.ime input method frame work with internationalization using jquery.i18n (not complex and will be expanded by Santhosh)
* Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library which will be very much helpful
* Improving cross language transliteration system. Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration
* A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections (Santhosh will explain this)
* Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it and of course competing with Google webfonts.
=== Android App Ideas===
* Malayalam Calendar (?)
* Full featured Malayalam input tool like [http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.inputmethod.hindi Google Hindi Input].

===Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik.===
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
* http://mapnik.org/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/
===Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.===
Both are OSGeo projects, and used in most of the WebGIS applications recently. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. OpenLayers is used by OpenStreetMap for its "slippy map" map interface.
* http://www.mapserver.org/
* http://www.openlayers.org/
* http://www.osgeo.org/
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.===
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
* http://grass.osgeo.org/

==Links==
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Google Summer of Code 2013 official website]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ GSoC page in Google Developers Website]
* [http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/search/label/gsoc GSoC News in Google Opensource Blog]

GSoC/2013

2013-03-23T14:26:47Z

Jishnu7: separated module porting and rest api idea

==Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013==
===Indic rendering support in ConTeXt.===
ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. (We already have rendering module
in SILPA this can be improved to allow the implementation of above
idea. )

===Automated Rendering Testing===
===Silpa Related===
* Port remaining modules to the new flask based Silpa.
* Provide REST API for new flask based Silpa, including conversion of templates to this REST API from JSON RPC.
* Separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi [https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it
* Integrating jquery.ime input method frame work with internationalization using jquery.i18n (not complex and will be expanded by Santhosh)
* Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library which will be very much helpful
* Improving cross language transliteration system. Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration
* A spell checker for Indic language that understands inflections (Santhosh will explain this)
* Improving the webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more Indic and complex fonts as part of it and of course competing with Google webfonts.
=== Android App Ideas===
* Jishnu can probably add some Android App ideas. One was a dictionary done by Rajeev Nair probably never developed afterwards!

===Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik.===
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
* http://mapnik.org/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/
===Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.===
Both are OSGeo projects, and used in most of the WebGIS applications recently. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. OpenLayers is used by OpenStreetMap for its "slippy map" map interface.
* http://www.mapserver.org/
* http://www.openlayers.org/
* http://www.osgeo.org/
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.===
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
* http://grass.osgeo.org/

==Links==
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Google Summer of Code 2013 official website]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ GSoC page in Google Developers Website]
* [http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/search/label/gsoc GSoC News in Google Opensource Blog]

GSoC/2013

2013-03-23T14:18:56Z

Jishnu7: fix typo

==Ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013==
===Indic rendering support in ConTeXt.===
ConTeXt is another TeX macro system similar to LaTeX but much more suitable for design. (We already have rendering module
in SILPA this can be improved to allow the implementation of above
idea. )

===Automated Rendering Testing===
===Silpa Related===
* Providing REST API for new flask based silpa which involves moving current modules which are tied to SILPA into separate modules packaging them for pypi and getting the templates ready for the new module inside the SILPA code. (I can expand this idea once application is ready)
* separate templates from SILPA and have it inside modules packaged for pypi [https://github.com/copyninja/Silpa-Flask/issues/4 this] should give more idea on it
* Integrating jquery.ime input method frame work with internationalization using jquery.i18n (not complex and will be expanded by Santhosh)
* Converting indic processing modules currently in SILPA into Jquery library which will be very much helpful
* Improving cross language transliteration system. Currently only Kannada and Malayalam are perfect rest all are first converted to Malayalam then to English due to lack of language internal. Also currently for English to Indic we use CMUDict so transliteration capability is limited to words in CMUDict only probably we could develop better method for English to Indic transliteration
* A spell checker for indic language that understands inflections (Santhosh will explain this)
* Improving the Webfonts module in Silpa using jquery.webfonts and proving more indic and complex fonts as part of it and of course competing with Google webfonts ;-)
=== Android App Ideas===
* Jishnu can probably add some Android App ideas. One was a dictionary done by Rajeev Nair probably never developed afterwards!

===Add proper Indic / Malayalam rendering to Mapnik.===
Mapnik is a free mapping toolkit, written in C++. One of it's major users is OpenStreetMap. If you check OpenStreetMap, you can see that Languages like Russian, Arabic, Persian, Chinese etc are rendered in it (Not sure whether they are properly rendered or not). The lack of proper Indic support is the major reason for the absence of Malayalam.
* http://mapnik.org/
* http://www.openstreetmap.org/
===Add Indic / Malayalam rendering to MapServer + OpenLayers stack.===
Both are OSGeo projects, and used in most of the WebGIS applications recently. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications. OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. OpenLayers is used by OpenStreetMap for its "slippy map" map interface.
* http://www.mapserver.org/
* http://www.openlayers.org/
* http://www.osgeo.org/
===Add proper Indic / Malayalam support and rendering to GRASS GIS.===
It is used by a number of organizations for analysing GIS data, creating maps etc. GRASS also is an OSGeo project. It is in the process of rewriting the old Tcl/Tk interface in the new wx-python.
* http://grass.osgeo.org/

==Links==
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Google Summer of Code 2013 official website]
* [https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ GSoC page in Google Developers Website]
* [http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/search/label/gsoc GSoC News in Google Opensource Blog]

GNOME 3.4 Release Party

2012-04-08T11:17:57Z

Jishnu7:

തിയ്യതി: 2012 ഏപ്രില്‍ 7

സമയം: രാവിലെ പത്തു് മണി

സ്ഥലം: എംഇഎസ് എഞ്ചിനീയറിങ്ങ് കോളേജ്, കുറ്റിപ്പുറം



== കാര്യപരിപാടി ==

ഗ്നോം പൊതുവായും പിന്നെ 3.4 ലെ പുതിയ വിശേഷങ്ങളേയും സാദിഖ് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തില്ലേ?

സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിനെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്താന്‍ അനീഷും മനോജും തയ്യാറല്ലേ?

മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിലെ പുതിയ വിശേഷങ്ങളെ സന്തോഷ് പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തില്ലേ?

ചര്‍ച്ച: സ്വാതന്ത്യം, സോഫ്റ്റ‌വെയര്‍, അറിവു്, സംസ്കാരം, സമൂഹം (വിഷയാവതരണം പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍)

ഗ്നോം 3.4 എന്ന പേരിലൊരു കേക്കും പിന്നെ കുറച്ചു് ബലൂണുകളും കിരണ്‍ സംഘടിപ്പിയ്കാമോ?

മറ്റു് ആശയങ്ങളും വരട്ടെ.

== സ്ഥലത്തെത്താന്‍ ==
* [http://osm.org/go/yn0Uv4gZp-- ഓപ്പണ്‍സ്ട്രീറ്റ്മാപ്പ്]

<googlemap version="0.9" lat="10.829365" lon="76.023256" zoom="18">
</googlemap>

== കൂടുതല്‍ വിവരങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ==

=== ഫേസ്ബുക്ക് ഇവന്റ് പേജ് ===
[https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/140762446053284/ ഗ്നോം 3.4 റിലീസ് പാര്‍ട്ടി]


== പത്രക്കുറിപ്പ് ==

== പങ്കെടുക്കുന്നവര്‍ ==
* പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍
* ശബരിഷ് കെ
* സജിത്. എന്‍
* മുഹമ്മദ് സാദിഖ് .പി.കെ
* നകുല്‍ എഴുത്തുപള്ളി
* കിരന്‍.വി.
* അനീസ് .പി
* റിയാസ് ടി.കെ
* നീനു ബാല്‍
* രാഹുല്‍ കെ.പി
* റാഷിദ് എം.വി
* യാഹുല്‍ ഹമീദ് കെ.പി
* മനോജ്.കെ (പങ്കെടുക്കാനാകും എന്നു കരുതുന്നു)
* സഹല കെ.എസ്
* ഹാരിസ് ഇബ്രാഹിം കെ. വി.
* പരീക്ഷകള്‍ അടുതത്ത് കൊണ്ട് പങ്കെടുക്കാന്‍ കഴിയുകയില്ല - എല്ലാ ഭാവുകങ്ങളും നേരുന്നു. - ധനഞജയ്.
* നൂഹ് പി.പി
* ജിഷ്ണു മോഹന്‍