[ilugd] Final list of awards for the 2008 Sarai FLOSS fellowships

[Sudhir Gandotra]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:17 +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote:

> 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


On behalf of OpenLX Linux, we are very happy to hear this news. These
winners and also all those who participated in this contest, are making
not only Open source but also India proud of the fact that there are
people who are interested in creativity and making their efforts
available for the community.

I invite all the participants (winners as well as others) to take OpenLX
Linux as their own OS (it belongs to your country and was made to make
the statement "India can do it") and take it forward with their efforts.

What you have done today is an action that goes beyond you, that goes
deep into the future, changing the direction of things. Great work. Our
congratulations. May the Force be with you !

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