[Indic-computing-devel] Seasons Greetings!

[sunil <su...@in...>]

My name is Sunil and I work for a Bangalore based non-profit organization 
called MAHITI.ORG. We work towards making IT 'cheap' and 'simple' for the 
voluntary sector. We specialize in internet/intranet/multimedia and kiosk 
based applications. We used to be Microsoft centric but now we are 
migrating to Zope.com and Python.org. 

The two biggest headaches for us are:-
1. Lack of Indian language technologies for the Linux Client. So far only 
display seems to work. For a Windows clients we are using 'India 
Interactive' from Mithi.com. India Interactive is Unicode and ISCII 
compliant. It supports 11 languages and 4 forms of input per language 
[phonetic, on-screen keyboard, remmington, iscii]. Robust import and 
export to other vendor's font-code. It uses Java and has live update 
components. But they have not ported it to Linux yet.

2. Lack of the <IFRAME> object in the Linux world. The <IFRAME> object in 
MSIE acts like a browser embedded WYSYWYG HTML Editor [as in 
Hotmail.com]. We sorely need this component for our content management 
solutions. In addition we need to make the <IFRAME> equivalent multi-
lingual. We do not have much Java competence and would like someone to 
help us developing the road map for this project. Dr. Amol Goje of 
VIITIndia.org [Vidhya Prathistan Institute of Information Technology, 
Baramathi, Maharastra] has consented to allot student project work for 
this project. In addition to that I have 2 Java programmers at my office. 

Thanks,

Sunil

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Sunil Abraham
Team Leader - MAHITI
Info-tech for the Voluntary Sector
India Cares, Vijay Kiran
314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur
Bangalore - 560 071. Karnataka. India
Pager: +91 80 9624 279519 Ph/Fax: +91 80 5352003, 5350035
E-mail: su...@ma... Web: http://www.mahiti.org