[KDE-India] Fwd: [PRC] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships

[Kartik Mistry]

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From: Gora Mohanty <gora at 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 at sarai.net>
Cc: General Freed list <freed at lists.linux-delhi.org>, ILUGD main list
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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

Regards,
Gora
Knowlege is power... share it equitably!

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