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Subject: Re: [KDE-India] Fwd: [PRC] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai
From: "Pradeepto Bhattacharya" <pradeeptob () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-10-30 11:16:07
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Hi,
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ctrl+F for KDE :)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gora Mohanty <gora@sarai.net>
> Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM
> Subject: [PRC] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships
> To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software Project List <prc@sarai.net>
> Cc: General Freed list <freed@lists.linux-delhi.org>, ILUGD main list
> <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> It gives us great pleasure to announce the list of fellows
> for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme. The number of
> fellowships this year represents a dramatic increase from past
> years. We are thankful to NIXI, and in particular, to their
> CEO, Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal for their generosity in making so
> many fellowships possible.
>
> Below is the list of 21 awardees. The list is also available
> online at
> <http://www.sarai.net/fellowships/floss/2008-sarai-floss-fellowships-list>
> . We will be in touch with each of the fellows, and
> also with anyone who sent in a proposal by the coming weekend.
> Please feel free to write to me with any queries, and/or
> concerns.
>
> The final list is:
> 1. Debayan Banerjee/Sawood Alam: Joint award for OCR in Urdu,
> Bengali, etc., based on Google Tesseract
> 2. Abhishek Choudhary et al: Hindawi is a system to allow
> programming in Indian languages. This project proposes to build online
> courseware to introduce the various components of Hindawi, to improve
> the project documentation, create a syllabus around Hindawi,
> distribute live CDs, and hold lectures.
> 3. Hassath: Making of a short film using FOSS tools, documenting the
> process, and listing pros and cons of the applications.
> 4. Sachin Joshi: Integrating automated speech recognition (ASR) for
> Hindi into the Linux platform.
> 5. Aadil Kak: Kashmiri font completion, and localisation of KDE 4.2.
> 6. Friji Karthikeyan: Internet Radio framework, with interface to,
> and hosting on Giss.tv
> 7. Satya Komaragiri: Speech-to-text support in OLPC, with Hindi ASR.
> 8. Manu Konchady: FOSS online tutor to teach students new languages,
> using text-to-speech, and a web-based framework.
> 9. Ajay Kumar: Sahana client on Openmoko mobiles. Sahana is the
> disaster relief management system used for the Bihar floods, tsunami,
> etc.
> 10. Sangeeta Kumari: Maithili localisation of KDE4.2, Fedora, and the
> Chatzilla IM client.
> 11. Pranav Madhyastha / Sriram Chaudhary: Joint award to develop a
> system of machine translation (MT) from English to Hindi. This will
> consist of a web framework to assist improvement of the background
> engine, and work on an open-source MT engine, Anusaaraka.
> 12. Helen Mary: Open-source database, and tools to study mental retardation.
> 13. Kartik Mistry: Gujarati localisation of KDE 4.2, usability
> workshop, and some internationalisation work for KDE
> 14. Rajeev Sebastian: Indic text rendering in Scribus, a page layout
> (DTP) application, using the Harfbuzz library.
> 15. Shishir Sharma et al: Intelligent Transliteration from Romanised
> English to Hindi
> 16. Syed Shikeb: Urdu localisation of KDE 4.2.
> 17. Ravishankar Shrivastava: Chhatisgarhi localisation of KDE 4.2.
> 18. Sreeraj R: Adding feature to System Verilog support for ICARUS.
> System Verilog is a hardware description, and verification language
> (HDVL) used, e.g., to program FPGAs.
> 19. Srujanika: Addition to Oriya dictionary, including scientific and
> technical terms.
> 20. Shamail Tayyab: Web-based secure P2P. Promotes sharing in a
> community-based way
> 21. C S Yoganada: Extend Sagar (TeX) to Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi,
> Gujarati and Oriya
Congratulations to all!
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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