indic-computing-users — Discussing the usage of indian language capable tools

[Indic-computing-users] Announcement - Beejnaagri and BeejU8

[Sandeep G. <san...@gm...>]

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_एक कदम डिजीटल स्वतंत्रता की ओर_

५९वें स्वतंत्रता दिवस के शुभ अवसर पर, बीजनागरी व बीजू८ की घोषणा।

बीजनागरी एक यूनीकोड रूपांतरण फॉर्मेट (UTF) है । एक १२ बिट कूटलेखन कला जो स्वर, 
मात्रा व व्यंजन का अलग अलग कोडन की जगह अक्षर कोडन करता है ।

बीजनागरी, देवनागरी को यूटीएफ८ से लगभग ५०-६०% संक्षिप्त करता है । समान तकनीक अन्य 
भारतीय लिपियों लिपि पर भी लागू हो सकती है ।

बीजू८, बीजनागरी व यूटीएफ८ के बीच का रुपान्तरण प्रदर्शित करता है । ये लिनक्स के लिए 
निर्मित है ।

कृप्या http://beejnaagri.sourceforge.net/ से डाउनलोड करके इन्हें परखें व अपनी 
बहुमूल्य राय दें ।

संदीप गुप्ता

_A step towards Digital Independence_

Announcing the release of Beejnaagri and BeejU8 on the occasion of 59th 
Independence day.

Beejnaagri is a Unicode Transformation Fromat (UTF) for Devanagari. It 
is a 12-bit encoding technique which encodes akshars rather than swar, 
vyanjan and maatra separately.

Beejnaagri is expected to compress Devanagri text by 50-60% over UTF-8. 
A similar technique can be applied to other Indic scripts.

BeejU8 v0.1 demonstrates the conversion between Beejnaagri and UTF-8. It 
requires *nix environment. It has been tested on Ubuntu 6.06 with very 
good results.

Please visit http://beejnaagri.sourceforge.net/ . It would be highly 
appreciated if you can comment on Beejnaagri and test BeejU8 on your 
systems and provide your valuable feedback.

Sandeep Gupta

[Indic-computing-users] [OT] An appeal

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@gn...>]

(If you are a commmon member of the lists to which this email is sent,
you get more than one copy of this mail, sorry.)

As many of you know FSF India is organizing GPL V3 Conference at
Bangalore, (http://gplv3.gnu.org.in).  The response to the conference
was overwhelming, and we already recieved registrations beyond the
capacity.  We thank you all for the enthusiastic response.

Due to recent increased security restrictions on both International
and national airlines, some of our guests were diverted to other less
restrictive airlines which allowed laptops and books.  Making these
alternative arragements to our guests caused doubling of the expenses,
and cancellation expenses.  In some cases refunds were also not
possible.  As a result FSF India does not have these extra funds at
this moment.  We thought of bringing this to the notice of free
software community, and explore the possibility of support. This is an
appeal to contribute to FSF India.  Since we do not have enough time
to make alternative arrangements we seek your active support at this
needy hour.  Even if the support is small from each of you, if more
people give a small sum, we will be able to make sure this will
happen.  The additional required budget is around Rs. 150,000/- (or
around $3000/-).  If you also know any one who could sponsor a ticket
or part of the ticket do let us know.

The conference registration was kept free and we thought we could
manage well with our earlier budgets.  Conference registration
continues to be free, but do consider sending donations.  You may also
consider becoming taking fellowship (http://www.gnu.org.in/fellowship).

http://www.gnu.org.in/donate#account

FSF Account information:

Free Software Foundation of India.
Acc No : 632000002698
Bank : HDFC Bank LTD.
Branch : Trivandrum.

FSF India have 80G status under Income Tax Act. All donations to FSF
India are tax-deductible (by order number: C. No
302/ADIT(E)/24/2005-05 Dated: 25/01/06 ).

Please note that, for the time being, we are unable to accept
donations from outside India.

Thanks

Nagarjuna

[Indic-computing-users] proposal for IndicDevelMeet 2006

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi all,
 this is to propose the next Indic Devel meet. As of now
venue, dates & agenda is not decided. The meet will be finalized only
if a good agenda & activty map can be decided upon by July end.

http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicDevelMeet06
==================================
Indic Devel Meet '06

Dates: Late Sept/ Early October

Venue: Not decided (HBCSE?/Sarai?)

Agenda: Not fixed. Possible areas of interest:

    * Developing Indic TTS using festival engine
    * OCR development
    * Debian Installer & customization
    * Morphological analysis of text - for used with grammer checker,
spellchecker & autotranslation.
    * Deployment strategies, with some action plans.
    * IndLinux society organization formation.
    * ... 

Participation:
    * Participation will be voluntary & on own initiative.
    * Interested people welcome to come up with ideas on agenda &
workplan. 

Resources:
    * A seminar room.
    * A lab like setup with network & internet connectivity
    * cheap accomodation closeby
    * Funds upto 1 lakh or more to cover costs (food,acco, travel) 
    * Preferably ppl bring their own laptops.

Past events:
    * Indic Devel Meet 2005
(http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicDevelMeet)
    * Indic Meet, September 2004.
    * Indic Font Workshop, 2003.
    * Indic Computing Meet, Sept 2002. 
=================================

Regards,
Karunakar

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[Indic-computing-users] Indic l10n status update

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi,
  Indic l10n status matrix is updated, different teams please confirm
on the status of components specified asap, so that it can be
updated accordingly

http://www.indlinux.org/doc/status06.html

Karunakar

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[Indic-computing-users] Tamil display problem in TCPDF

[Tapan P. <ta...@cs...>]

Hi,

We are having problems with Tamil UTF-8 display in PDF while using the
TCPDF library for generating a PDF file from PHP.

For more clarification please see the attached image file. If you have
any suggestions to resolve this issue, please let us know.

Thanks,
Tapan

[Indic-computing-users] RE: Lipi Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition

[Madhvanath, S. (HP L. India) <sr...@hp...>]

Sorry about the typo. The correct URL is:

http://lipitk.sourceforge.net

With kind regards,
Sriganesh

> _____________________________________________=20
> From: 	Madhvanath, Sriganesh (HP Labs India) =20
> Sent:	Monday, May 22, 2006 2:44 PM
> To:	'ind...@li...'
> Subject:	Lipi Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition
>=20
>=20
> Dear colleagues,
>=20
> You would be happy to know that HP Labs India has recently released
> into open source, Lipi Toolkit, a toolkit for building handwriting
> recognition engines for different languages and scripts.  More
> information about this effort and versions for both Windows and Linux
> are available from:
>=20
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/lipitk
>=20
> OR
>=20
> http://liptk.sourceforge.net
>=20
> We are very interested in people using the toolkit for exploring
> natural user interfaces, research in handwriting recognition
> algorithms, pen-based applications and solutions and building
> handwriting recognition technoogy for the various Indic languages and
> scripts - in both academic and commercial settings.=20
>=20
> To suppport this, we have released the code under a MIT (BSD-like)
> open source license which places no restrictions on commercial use,
> and there is no obligation to put modifications back.
>=20
> Please do not hesitate to contact me should you need more information.
>=20
> With kind regards,
> Sriganesh
>=20
> ps: We have also made available some Tamil handwriting data as part of
> a recent Tamil handwriting recognition competition that we
> co-organized, please see
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/research/lt-penhw-interfaces-1linguistics.
> html.
> --
> Sriganesh "Sri-G" Madhvanath, Ph.D.
> Senior Research Scientist     Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bangalore, India
> Email: sr...@hp...     Phone: +91(80)2504-2218
>=20

Re: [Indic-computing-users] Lipi Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition

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[Indic-computing-users] Lipi Toolkit for Online Handwriting Recognition

[Madhvanath, S. (HP L. India) <sr...@hp...>]

Dear colleagues,

You would be happy to know that HP Labs India has recently released into
open source, Lipi Toolkit, a toolkit for building handwriting
recognition engines for different languages and scripts.  More
information about this effort and versions for both Windows and Linux
are available from:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/lipitk

OR

http://liptk.sourceforge.net

We are very interested in people using the toolkit for exploring natural
user interfaces, research in handwriting recognition algorithms,
pen-based applications and solutions and building handwriting
recognition technoogy for the various Indic languages and scripts - in
both academic and commercial settings.=20

To suppport this, we have released the code under a MIT (BSD-like) open
source license which places no restrictions on commercial use, and there
is no obligation to put modifications back.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you need more information.

With kind regards,
Sriganesh

ps: We have also made available some Tamil handwriting data as part of a
recent Tamil handwriting recognition competition that we co-organized,
please see
http://www.hpl.hp.com/india/research/lt-penhw-interfaces-1linguistics.ht
ml.
--
Sriganesh "Sri-G" Madhvanath, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist     Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bangalore, India
Email: sr...@hp...     Phone: +91(80)2504-2218

[Indic-computing-users] IndLinux Society

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi all,
  after long deliberations & hesitations, its been finally thought to
form IndLinux as a registered society.
  A copy of the memorandum of association, activities of the society
with initial signatories etc are specified here .
 http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Society
  Comments welcome, meanwhile we will start the signing up process by
passing around the papers to be signed by the signatories. Once
society is registered, we will have a formal membership option,
wherein others can also officially become members of the society, as
of now by being a member of this list you are defacto member of the
group. More deliberations on the organizational & activities issues
will happen once the registration is complete.

Karunakar

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[Indic-computing-users] Kannada Logo

[Pavanaja U B <pav...@vi...>]

Namasthe,

 

LOGO is internationally known programming language for children aged bet 8
and 14 years. I have localized it into Kannada. It can be downloaded from
http://www.vishvakannada.com/KannadaLogo. Please download, use and send me
feedback. I am also requesting people to donate by clicking on the PayPal
button given at the bottom of the page. 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

--------------------------------------------

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja

CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech

http://www.vishvakannada.com/ 

Think Globally, Act Locally

 

[Indic-computing-users] Indic ToDo List ( since SoC app. rejected )

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi all,
Our proposal to Google has been rejected, but the Ideas could still
keep coming. There is lot to do. We can have our own contest (though
minus the $$ motivation!).

It would be good to have an exhaustive list of TODO things, any
small, big thing still to be done for any language. The idea being if
we can put it in writing, then there can be someone reading it, who
can help in something. Once the ideas are put forward, it would be
easier for people who can take mentor roles, and ones who apply to
contribute something. With the goals set it mind its easier to manage
work & people. Also its not that one has to work on a whole piece to
get involved, it could even be a small concrete step to build it over
step by step. 

the wiki page is now renamed to be - IndicTodo -  all list of task to
be done in Indic in exhaustive manner.

http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicTodo

So please keep the ideas still coming.

Karunakar

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[Indic-computing-users] Google Summer of Code

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi all,
  As many must be aware of Google Summer of Code program, where
students can apply to work with FOSS projects over short term
projects with developers from community mentoring them. This year
they plan to increase the mentoring organizations, esp from India.
  IndLinux.org will be applying for this program. I have already
written to them and hoping for a positive response.
  To begin with we need a group of people who would be willing to
mentor students. As of now the requirements for being a mentor are
not defined, but would primarily be based on the tasks to be
suggested in project list. A draft of projects/tasks todo is coming
up at 
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/GoogleSoC
 This needs to be expanded, esp to include some concrete tasks which
can be completed by students in a 3-6 months timeframe, and mentors
be available to guide them during that time.
  
On tuesday evening (25th April) we will have an IRC meet to discuss
more about this. Timing 9pm-11pm.

Comments, suggestions welcome,

Karunakar

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Re: [Indic-computing-users] cutting up sentences into syllables

[Krishnamurthy N. <kn...@ya...>]

Hi all,

It may be useful to check out the following project 
at sourceforge for this purpose. 

-------------------------------------
Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary
continuous speech
recognizer under Berkeley's style license. It is also
a collection of
open source tools and resources that allows
researchers and developers
to build speech recognition systems.

Project of the month:
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2006-03.php
Home Page: http://www.cmusphinx.org/
Project Page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/  

cheers,
Nagarajan

--- Mita Radhakrishnan <mi...@au...> wrote:

> Dear friends,
> 
> 1.  Does anyone know of any programme out there
> which can cut up a  
> spoken sentence into its constituent syllables?
> 	We need to measure the average time taken to emit a
> syllable.  We  
> would like to do this for various Indian languages
> starting with  
> Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam,
> Urdu,  etc.
> 	We're wondering if there is any way to do this
> without having to  
> sit, listen, and edit hours of data by hand, cutting
> it into pieces;  
> it will take days and months and will be imprecise
> to do it this  
> way.  There must be a more precise and less time
> consuming way to do it.
> 
> 2.  We are told that this could be done by writing
> an algorithm in  
> the program MATLAB; is there anyone on this list who
> has experience  
> with that programme and can advise?
> 
> 3.  If anyone has any information/ideas to share
> which can help us or  
> can think of directions in which we can look to find
> answers, we  
> would greatly appreciate it!
> 
> Belated New Year wishes to everybody
> 
> Regards
> Mita Radhakrishnan/Tapas Desrousseaux
> Auroville Language Laboratory.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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[Indic-computing-users] Virtual CD for Linux

[Mita R. <mi...@au...>]

Hi all,

Wondering if any Linux enthusiasts among you might know about Virtual  
CD for Linux....  does a programme exist which has the same  
capability as Virtual CD for Windows?  google throws up some  
responses, mostly in Russian; difficult to find.

Cheers

Mita
for Auroville Language Lab

  

[Indic-computing-users] FYI: [icu-design] ICU maintenance releases now available

[Abhijit D. <kut...@ya...>]

Hello Everyone,

FYI.

Regards,
Abhijit
--- Vladimir Weinstein <wei...@gm...> wrote:

> From: "Vladimir Weinstein" <wei...@gm...>
> To: icu...@li...,
> 	icu...@li...,
> icu...@li...
> Subject: [icu-design] ICU maintenance releases now available
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:26:26 -0800
> 
> Dear friends and users of ICU,
> 
> We would like to inform you that we have made available several ICU
> maintenance releases:
> - ICU4J 3.4.3
> (http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp#icu4j)
> - ICU4C 3.4.1
> (http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp#icu4c)
> - ICU4C 3.2.1
> (http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/prevreleases.jsp)
> 
> The maintenance releases feature bug fixes and updates to ICU code.
> For more details, see the download pages.
> 
> Please use our bug reporting tool and support mailing lists, see
> http://www.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/using.jsp
> 
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> v.
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[Indic-computing-users] Fw: Indian Langage computing

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:42:06 -0800
From: sri...@au...
To: cn...@au...
Subject: Indian Langage computing



Prof. C N Krishnan
Director                         =20
                                                                         =
     =20
                                        28th Feb 2006

Dear friend,

This is Prof. C N Krishnan from Anna University, Chennai, and I am
addressing this mail  to you in your capacity of being an active
contributor to the Indian Language Computing  and Localisation area.
You may probably be aware that the National Resource Centre for
Free/Open Source Software (NRC-FOSS) has been set up in Chennai in
2005 by the Dept. of Information Technology, Govt. of India. Please
see for details www.nrcfoss.org.in . This is a joint initiative
between Anna University (AU-KBC Research Center) and C-DAC, and
functions from two premises=C2=97the AU-KBC Research Centre at the MIT
Campus of Anna University, and the C-DAC Chennai office. One of the
goals of NRCFOSS is the promotion of Localisation and Indian Language
Computing using the resources, tools, techniques  and methodology of
FOSS, and it is in this context that I am writing to you now. As is
well known in the community, the Indian language computing scene
today is not altogether very vibrant, and is characterized by the
following: =C2=B7	The size of  the language computing community in
India is quite small, and the activity is largely limited to the IIT
s, the C-DAC and a few  Universities- the number of active groups in
the whole country may not exceed some 40-50, which is pitiably small
for a country as linguistically diverse and rich as ours. There is an
urgent need to broaden the  base of this community in the country if
it is to deliver anything of value and substance to our society.
=C2=B7	For researchers, Indian language computing has not
traditionally been considered a =C2=91hot=C2=92 or =C2=91glamorous=C2=92 =
area as there
aren=C2=92t too many opportunities of getting either international
recognition or substantial consulting assignments or corporate offers
by working  in this area. This relatively low rewards has also meant
that Indian Language computing doesn=C2=92t attract lot of talents.
=C2=B7	This is not a very resource and capital intensive activity,
and we have abundant supply of  the two requirements for language
computing work=C2=97language expertise and programming/IT skills. As
one=C2=92s  language is always close to one=C2=92s heart, a large number =
of
people with these resources, with in the country as well as outside,
are in fact willing to devote part of their time towards this
activity even in a purely voluntary manner if there is some mechanism
for utilizing the same. =C2=B7	If made available in an affordable
and robust manner, there is a tremendous requirement for language and
speech computing products, tools and technologies in our
country=C2=97Machine Translation, Speech Recognition/Synthesis,
Voice-based information systems, OCR and text input devices,
Information Extraction and Information Retrieval engines, etc. There
are not many products of these types available at the moment, and
opportunities for local entrepreneurship and business in this area
are indeed enormous. Some positive signs in this  area are the recent
availability of  Open Office in Indic languages, free  Unicode-Indic
fonts, initiatives for development of  Desktop computers with Indic
scripts, etc., and  Indian Language computing may be on the threshold
of  taking off in a big way.

It appears that Open Source computing  could perhaps be of
considerable value in this context, and I would like to make the
following proposition to you in this regard:
In a purely voluntary manner, the members and groups of our language
computing community  like yourself  may consider releasing parts or
whole of your  work to the open source under an appropriate licensing
framework. You may do this in an =C2=93as is where is=C2=94 manner and le=
t any
one interested use it  or develop it further as they wish with in the
relevant  FOSS licensing framework. Alternately, and this is vastly
preferable, you  may continue your  work as an open source project
letting other interested persons also  join in and contribute as you
feel fit. NRCFOSS would be most happy to discuss all the details of
this with you and provide all the assistance that you may need  in
taking your work to the open source domain. The following are some of
the positive fall outs of such a step that one can foresee:

=C2=B7	Your work will get known to the entire world, and would get
you the recognition and respect for the same. And if you have
commercial interests in your work, the same can also be furthered as
per the norms and practices of  the FOSS domain.
=C2=B7	Once your work is available in the open, you are likely to
get many more persons interested in your work as well as to
contribute to the same under your mentorship, thereby alleviating
some of the problems of resource constraint that might have been
restricting  your work so far. =C2=B7	Free availability of  some or
all of the results of your  work, as well as your guidance and
mentoring, can enable lots more persons to initiate and participate
in similar activities over the net, thereby scaling up the quantum of
work getting done in your language area. This is particularly the
case with in the academic community where a large number of students
and faculty would be able to take up project work in this area once
the resources and tools are made freely available. =C2=B7	Once the
different tools, resources and techniques are openly being seen and
used by a large number of members of a given language computing
community, their relative merits and strengths would become apparent,
enabling all to access and use  the best  tools and practices
available in that language. This would, inter alia, lead to emergence
of strong standards and norms as well. =C2=B7	Another benefit  of
this open sourcing would be that the relative practices, technologies
and resources of different languages would be visible to all, leading
to strong sharing and borrowing of concepts and practices across the
different Indian languages=C2=97something that can also help evolve some
uniformity of approaches across the different Indian languages as far
as computational work goes. =C2=B7	Today India=C2=92s presence on the
FOSS radar of the world is essentially one of a consumer, and not
much is being put back into the open community from work being done
in India. The step being proposed here can change that picture at
least in the domain of Indian language computing, and it is
conceivable that scores of very active FOSS projects can be nucleated
and carried forward in all our languages in this manner.

Needless to add, the decision as to which of your work, if at all,
and to what level, you would like to release to the FOSS community,
and under what licensing terms, etc. are to be taken by the
individual scientists like your self, and as per your organisation=C2=92s
policies in such matters. The role of NRCFOSS  in this would include:

1.	Have some one call on you and your group to explain  the
benefits that you would derive from open sourcing some or all of your
work in Indian Language computing.
2.	Support you through the process of  doing this, covering
technological, legal, licensing and IP issues addressing all your
concerns and requirements.
3.	Provide you with the resources, manpower and  know how
support  needed to initiate and manage your project in the open
source mode.
4.	Be a facilitator and  enabler  to  assist you in managing
the migration of your work to the FOSS domain as per your wish and
interest.

I  look forward to hearing from you ; please feel free to contact me
in case of need ( my cell: 09841026505).
Thanks and regards
Sincerely

Prof. C N Krishnan  =20
Joint-Coordinator, NRCFOSS
Director, AU-KBC Research Centre
Anna University Chennai (www.au-kbc.in)

Encl.  NRCFOSS brochure.






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[Indic-computing-users] Asia Commons: Call for Papers + Participants

[Sunil A. <su...@ma...>]

Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons
April 18-20, 2006
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.asia-commons.net/

During the last 20 years or so, the level, scope, territorial extent,
and role of copyrights and patents have expanded into new sectors. There
has been much discussion and debate on the impact of copyrights and
patents at a micro level of economic activity while at a macro level,
policy dialogue in several international fora, not least of which is
WIPO, has been addressing barriers posed by copyrights and patents.

Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons invites:
- researchers working in the area of copyrights and patents,
- promoters of collaborative models,
- development practitioners engaged in collaborative content creation
and dissemination, and
- custodians of public information
to go beyond the current dialogue and debate to explore key issues and
ideas related to access to knowledge and culture in Asia.

Participants are invited to explore key themes and questions related to
the Asian Commons:

- What is the relationship between infrastructure and copyrights on
access to culture and knowledge?
- How do software and business process patents affect innovation?
- What are the impacts of patents on software innovations in Asia?
- What are the emerging Open Business Models for content production in
Asia?
- Given existing legal, cultural and infrastructural environments both
within and outside of Asia, how can we contribute to increasing access
to knowledge and culture through an Asia Commons?

While we will be inviting a number of speakers who are seen as
thought-leaders in the field of Access to Knowledge and Culture, we will
also look to innovative approaches to ensure a high degree of
interaction among participants in spaces and sessions which are designed
to maximize the exchange of experiences and ideas.

Conference Fees, Registration, and Scholarships:

There are no fees for participation in the conference which is supported
through funding made available by the International Development Research
Centre's (IDRC's) Pan Asia Program (http://www.idrc.ca/panasia).

If you are interested in participating, please register online at
http://www.asia-commons.net/conf_registration/add or email
reg...@as... to receive a registration form which can
be submitted through email. Please register before March 8, 2006.

Thanks to the generous support of IDRC's Pan Asia
(http://www.idrc.ca/panasia) and UNDP APDIP's IOSN (http://www.iosn.net)
there are also a number of scholarships available for participants in
need of financial support. Please visit
http://www.asia-commons.net/participate for more information.

Call for Papers:

Asia Commons invites paper abstracts of original papers for sharing your
work and experiences during the discussions at the conference. Papers
should fall within the conference themes:

- Access to Knowledge and Culture in Asia
- Models for Collaborative Knowledge and Culture
- Towards a Healthy Asia Commons

Themes are fully described at: http://www.asia-commons.net/about

Please submit paper proposals to pa...@as... by February 24,
2006. Proposals should include the title of the paper, an abstract and
contact information of all authors.

Paper writers will be given the opportunity to present their papers at
Asia Commons and will be fully funded to attend the conference.

Paper proposal deadline: February 24, 2006
Proposal acceptance: February 28, 2006
Full paper submission: April 1, 2006

For more information, please visit: http://www.asia-commons.net/papers

Can't Join Us?

For those unable to join us physically during the event, we invite you
to participate through the participants discussion list and visit
http://www.asia-commons.net for outputs during the conference itself.

To subscribe to the participants discussion list, send an email to
par...@as... with the word subscribe in the
subject.

A special issue of i4d Magazine (http://www.i4donline.net) will be
produced in June 2006 based on the conference and its themes.

We look forward to seeing you at the Asia Commons.

Your Organising Committee:
Shikha Shrestha, Bellanet Asia (in partnership with SAP International)
(http://www.sapint.org)
Sarah Kerr, Bellanet International Secretariat (http://www.bellanet.org)
Jaya Chittoor, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
(http://www.csdms.in)
Sunil Abraham, UNDP APDIP's International Open Source Network
(http://www.iosn.net)

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Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons
Subject: Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons- 18-20 April 2006- Bangkok,Thailand
To: ind...@li...
From: Sunil Abraham <su...@ma...>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:11:24 +0530

April 18-20, 2006
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.asia-commons.net

During the last 20 years or so, the level, scope, territorial extent,
and role of copyrights and patents have expanded into new sectors. There
has been much discussion and debate on the impact of copyrights and
patents at a micro level of economic activity while at a macro level,
policy dialogue in several international fora, not least of which is
WIPO, has been addressing barriers posed by copyrights and patents.

Asia Commons: Asian Conference on the Digital Commons invites
researchers working in the area of copyrights and patents, promoters of
collaborative models, development practitioners engaged in collaborative
content creation and dissemination and custodians of public information
to go beyond the current dialogue and debate to explore key issues and
ideas related to access to knowledge and culture in Asia.

Participants are invited to explore key themes and questions related to
the Asian Commons:

* What is the relationship between infrastructure and copyrights on
access to culture and knowledge?
* How do software and business process patents affect innovation?
* What are the impacts of patents on software innovations in Asia?
* What are the emerging Open Business Models for content production in Asia?
* Given existing legal, cultural and infrastructural environments both
within and outside of Asia, how can we contribute to increasing access
to knowledge and culture through an Asia Commons?

While we will be inviting a number of speakers who are seen as
thought-leaders in the field of Access to Knowledge and Culture, we will
also look to innovative approaches to ensure a high degree of
interaction among participants in spaces and sessions which are designed
to maximize the exchange of experiences and ideas.

Conference Fees, Registration, and Scholarships:

There are no fees for participation in the conference which is supported
through funding made available by the International Development Research
Centre's (IDRC's) Pan Asia Program (http://www.idrc.ca/panasia).

If you are interested in participating, please register online at
http://www.asia-commons.net/conf_registration/add or email
reg...@as... to receive a registration form which can
be submitted through email. Please register before March 8, 2006.

Thanks to the generous support of IDRC's Pan Asia
(http://www.idrc.ca/panasia) and UNDP APDIP's IOSN (http://www.iosn.net)
there are also a number of scholarships available for participants in
need of financial support. Please visit
http://www.asia-commons.net/participate for more information.

Can't Join Us?

For those unable to join us physically during the event, we invite you
to participate through the participants discussion list and visit
http://www.asia-commons.net for outputs during the conference itself.

To subscribe to the participants discussion list, send an email to
par...@as... with the word subscribe in the
subject.

A special issue of i4d Magazine (http://www.i4donline.net) will be
produced in June 2006 based on the conference and its themes.

We look forward to seeing you at Asia Commons.

Your Organising Committee:
- Shikha Shrestha, Bellanet Asia (in partnership with SAP International)
(http://www.sapint.org)
- Sarah Kerr, Bellanet International Secretariat (http://www.bellanet.org)
- Jaya Chittoor, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
(http://www.csdms.in)
- Sunil Abraham, UNDP APDIP's International Open Source Network
(http://www.iosn.net)

[Indic-computing-users] cutting up sentences into syllables

[Mita R. <mi...@au...>]

Dear friends,

1.  Does anyone know of any programme out there which can cut up a  
spoken sentence into its constituent syllables?
	We need to measure the average time taken to emit a syllable.  We  
would like to do this for various Indian languages starting with  
Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu,  etc.
	We're wondering if there is any way to do this without having to  
sit, listen, and edit hours of data by hand, cutting it into pieces;  
it will take days and months and will be imprecise to do it this  
way.  There must be a more precise and less time consuming way to do it.

2.  We are told that this could be done by writing an algorithm in  
the program MATLAB; is there anyone on this list who has experience  
with that programme and can advise?

3.  If anyone has any information/ideas to share which can help us or  
can think of directions in which we can look to find answers, we  
would greatly appreciate it!

Belated New Year wishes to everybody

Regards
Mita Radhakrishnan/Tapas Desrousseaux
Auroville Language Laboratory.

[Indic-computing-users] RFPs on ILDC web-site

[Abhijit D. <kut...@ya...>]

Hello Everyone,

http://www.rfp.ildc.in/rfp.htm

Also: http://www.linuxasia.net

Regards,
Abhijit


		
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[Indic-computing-users] Happy New Year

[Niladri D. <ns...@ya...>]

  Respected Teachers, Colleagues and Friends,
   
  First of all I wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006. Let the New Year bring Peace and Prosperity to your life and family. 
   
  In this auspicious moment kindly allow me to inform you a good news related to our mother tongue - Bengali.
   
  The first Bengali book on Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology with close reference to Bengali is going to be published within a couple of weeks from now. The details of the book is given below:
   
  Title: BhAsAngsha Samgraha O Adhunik BhAsAbijnAn (Language Corpora and Modern Linguistics)
   
  Author: Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
   
  Publisher: Dakshabharati. 33, College Row, Kolkata – 700109.
   
  Introduction: by Dr. Dwijesh Dutta Majumder, Professor Emeritus, ISI, Kolkata and Director, Institute of Cybernetics, Kolkata.
   
  No. of Pages: 296
   
  Language: Bengali
   
  Price: Rs. 240/- (India), USD 30 (Foreign countries)
   
  If you ever like to have a copy of the book, then please contact at the following address. 
   
  Mr. Kaushik Baul (Publisher)
  Dakshabharati. 
  33, College Row, 
  Kolkata – 700109.
  Phone: (O) 033-2241 9838
  Mobile: +919433190295
  Email: ns...@ya...
  Email: dak...@ya...
   
  The book will also be available at the Kolkata Book Fair to be started in the last week of January 2006 at Kolkata Maidan.
   
  Thank you all once again.
   
  With best wishes and regards,
   
  Sincerely,
   
  Niladri



Dr Niladri Sekhar Dash (MA, NLP, PhD, CCP)
Speciality: Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology and Lexicography.
Linguistic Research Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, Barrackpre Trunk Road
Kolkata 700108, WB, India
Email: ni...@is...
http://www.isical.ac.in/~niladri 
 
 







		
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[Indic-computing-users] Rangoli live cd 1.0 beta released

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

Hi all,

Rangoli live cd 1.0 beta released.

Rangoli is multilingual Live CD from IndLinux.org based on Morphix
project (which is based on KNOPPIX & Debian). It boots directly into
the chosen language desktop as available on boot menus. This is a
demo & test release, primarily intended for testing out Indic stuff
and not for production use. A final version would be coming up by
Jan=E2=80=9906 end, which will also be the last of Rangoli live CD series=
.

Download ISO (688MB)
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D11495&package_id=
=3D118963&release_id=3D382271


Feedback welcome at feedback AT indlinux dawt org or on the
Indlinux-group lists You can also hop into #indlinux at
irc.freenode.net

This version of Live CD features the following
# Gnome 2.10
# KDE 3.4.3
# OpenOffice 2.0

Following languages are available as boot options
# KDE - Hindi, Tamil
# GNOME - Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi

This features work from following Language teams
# Bengali - http://www.bengalinux.org
# Hindi - http://www.indlinux.org/hindi
# Gujarati - http://www.utkarsh.org
# Punjabi - http://punlinux.sf.net
# Tamil - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilinix

Languages - Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Marathi not included since
they dont have near complete KDE/GNOME desktops. Telugu disabled for
font conflicts will be fixed in next release. Nepali and Dzongkha
also provided as demo purpose.

TODO:
# Lots of testing!!
# better splash screens
# indlinux themes for KDE & GNOME
# getting installer working
# add support for other langs.
# get scim working
# OOo customization
# Include Indic enabled Firefox.
# Lots of user documentation to write!

To volunteer/contribute join the indlinux-group list
or at IRC at #indlinux on irc.freenode.net

If someone likes to do some serious testing, mail feedback at
indlinux.org with address to send in a copy of the CD.

Karunakar

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[Indic-computing-users] Fwd: (Mozilla) Localisers Map

[Abhijit D. <kut...@ya...>]

Hi Everyone,

Per Koshy's correction - the standards list is omitted this time.

But, just FYI.

Season's Greetings for everyone. I hope we can make much better
progress in the (near) future.

Regards,
Abhijit



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[Indic-computing-users] Re: Indic-computing-users digest, Vol 1 #420 - 2 msgs

[jitendra <jit...@gm...>]

Please find the following site
203.199.16.202
It contains a few GIS applications and a few web-based database application=
s
using FREE opensource.
Also not the tenders of Maharashtra Government for ratecontracts where
OpenOffice(.org) with Marathi (gargi) fonts as compulsory on either
platforms ( Proprietory or opensource) are built in in new machines.
Maharashtra Gov buys about 5000 machines annually.
jitendra


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ind...@li...> wrote:
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>    1. Organisations using Open Source? (Sasikumar)
>    2. Re: Organisations using Open Source? (Guntupalli Karunakar)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:55:22 -0500
> From: Sasikumar <the...@gm...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Organisations using Open Source?
>
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> Hi,
>
> Do any of you know of any organisation in India actually using Open Sourc=
e
> Software in practice? We are trying to gather information on actual use o=
f
> this nature - this is useful to build confidence in potential users. Usag=
e
> can include desktops/laptops running Linux and other Open Source software=
,
> applications running on Linux, applications which are built using OSS,
> usin=3D
> g
> OSS applications (koha, compere, etc).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>
> - Sasi
>
> --
> M Sasikumar, KBCS/ETU Divisions,  CDAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
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> <br>
> Do any of you know of any organisation in India actually using Open=3D20
> Source Software in practice? We are trying to gather information on=3D20
> actual use of this nature - this is useful to build confidence in=3D20
> potential users. Usage can include desktops/laptops running Linux and=3D2=
0
> other Open Source software, applications running on Linux, applications=
=3D20
> which are built using OSS, using OSS applications (koha, compere, etc).
> <br>
>
> <br>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
> <br>
>
> <br>
> - Sasi
> <br>
> <br>-- <br>M Sasikumar, KBCS/ETU Divisions,&nbsp;&nbsp;CDAC Mumbai
> (formerl=3D
> y NCST)
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:57:10 +0530
> From: Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@in...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Organisations using Open Source?
> Organization: IndLinux.org
>
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:55:22 -0500
> Sasikumar <the...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do any of you know of any organisation in India actually using Open
> > Source Software in practice? We are trying to gather information on
> > actual use of this nature - this is useful to build confidence in
> > potential users. Usage can include desktops/laptops running Linux
> > and other Open Source software, applications running on Linux,
> > applications which are built using OSS, using OSS applications
> > (koha, compere, etc).
> >
>
> How about putting up an online survey?
> I was trying to get one up for FOSS.IN but isnt ready.
>
> http://linux-bangalore.org/2005/wiki/index.php/Community_Issues#Mapping_t=
he_FOSS_movement_in_India
>
> Karunakar
>
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Re: [Indic-computing-users] Organisations using Open Source?

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:55:22 -0500
Sasikumar <the...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Do any of you know of any organisation in India actually using Open
> Source Software in practice? We are trying to gather information on
> actual use of this nature - this is useful to build confidence in
> potential users. Usage can include desktops/laptops running Linux
> and other Open Source software, applications running on Linux,
> applications which are built using OSS, using OSS applications
> (koha, compere, etc).
> 

How about putting up an online survey?
I was trying to get one up for FOSS.IN but isnt ready. 
http://linux-bangalore.org/2005/wiki/index.php/Community_Issues#Mapping_the_FOSS_movement_in_India

Karunakar

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