[KDE-India] KDE FOSS WorkOuts @ FOSS.IN/2008

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya
> <pradeeptob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      Some of us have been discussing what proposal could be submitted
>> for FOSS Workouts [1] at FOSS.IN/2008. Not many concrete ideas came
>> forward. Except one from Kushal and some cool ideas from Santhosh. I
>> will let them elaborate their ideas if they wish to do the same.
> Hi,
> I am listing my ideas below. Please comment :)
>
> 1. The calendar applet in kde panel has support for multiple calendar
> systems. Already it has Persian, Hijara etc.. Indian National Calendar
> system is called as Saka[1]. We need to add our calendar also to this.
> Some understanding of the code of that application and referring the
> existing persian or other calendars will help us to get an idea of the
> architecture. Then converting the unix time to saka... For that I
> found one calendar converter[2], and I just had a look at the
> javascript they used[3]..
> Once Saka is done we have many other calendars in India. Bengal has
> one, Gujarat has one, Kerala has one and Tamilnadu has another one...
> We can consider adding them to this..

I've already done this for Kollavarsham (Malayalam calendar) ... let
me see if I can dig it from somewhere ...

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian