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Date: Aug 5, 2013 6:28 PM<br>
Subject: IEEE Kerala Section – Wednesday Technical Talk – 7 August 2013 - 5:45 PM<br>To: <br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="ltr"><p><span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:'Arial Black';color:navy">IEEE</span></b><span><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Kerala
Section</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">cordially
invites you to attend Technical talk on</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">12
years of Malayalam Computing and the way forward</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">by</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Mr.Anivar A
Aravind</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Secretary,
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">&</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Consultant,
International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS)</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">on</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Wednesday 7 August
2013 at 5:45 PM</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">at</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:maroon">The Institution of Engineers (India) Hall</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon">Visvesvaraya Bhavan, Opposite to Kanakaku<span lang="SV">nnu</span><span lang="SV"> Palace,
Trivandrum -
695 033</span></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:red" lang="SV"> </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">JOINTLY
ORGANISED BY:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 1.<span> </span><b>THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA)</b><span> </span>Kerala State
Centre<br>
2.<span> </span><b>COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA</b><span> </span>Trivandrum
Chapter<br>
3.<span> </span><b>AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA</b><span> </span>Trivandrum
Branch</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 4. <b>SYSTEMS SOCIETY OF INDIA</b><span> </span>Thiruvananthapuram Chapter</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 5.<span><b> </b></span><b>IETE</b><span> </span>Thiruvananthapuram Local Centre</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 6.<span> </span><b>PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE</b><span> </span>– Trivandrum - Kerala Chapter</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 7.<span> </span><b>Indian National Society for Aerospace and Related
Mechanisms</b>, Thiruvananthapuram Chapter</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> 8. </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Society of Aerospace Manufacturing
Engineers, </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Thiruvananthapuram<span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Website: <a href="http://www.ieee.org/kerala" target="_blank">www.ieee.org/kerala</a> e-mail: <a href="mailto:ieeek@vsnl.com" target="_blank">ieeek@vsnl.com</a> /<a href="mailto:ieeeks.keralasection@gmail.com" target="_blank">ieeeks.keralasection@gmail.com</a>
Tel: 0471-2473515 (5 PM - 7 PM)</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Topic: 12 years of
Malayalam Computing and the way forward</span></b><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"></span></p><p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Discussions on Malaylam and its computing are again getting
prominence after the initiation of Malayalam
University and
achievement of classical status to Malayalam language. It has been 12 years
since language computing efforts started in Indian languages. Malayalam
has the most active community which work on language computing. Most of these
achievements volunteer efforts by developers working in various companies using
their free time. Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a 11 year old free
software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization and
popularization of various Free and Open Source Softwares in Malayalam language.
"</span><span style="font-family:Kartika">എന്റെ</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"> </span><span style="font-family:Kartika">കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനു്</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"> </span><span style="font-family:Kartika">എന്റെ</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"> </span><span style="font-family:Kartika">ഭാഷ</span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">" is the
slogan of the organization, which translates to "My language for/on My
Computer". SMC has been active since October 2002 and has been working to
provide Malayalam language tools that work on all layers of computing including
and not limited to rendering fixes, fonts, input mechanisms, translations
(localization), text-to-speech engines, dictionaries, spell checkers and other
indic script based language computing specific tools across Mobile and Desktop
operating systems.</span><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><br>T<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">his<span> </span>talk is planned as a quick walk
through major Malayalam computing <span> </span>developments
and achievements in last 12 years by various stakeholders and a
technical roadmap presentation for coming years.</span><span> </span><b><br>
<br>
Speaker: Anivar Aravind</b></span><span style="font-family:'Courier New'"></span></p><p style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'">Anivar
A. Aravind is a social entrepreneur, Technology consultant and free software
advocate currently based on Bangalore
. He is a Engineering Graduate in Information Technology from CUSAT . Anivar is
a Free and Open source Software(FOSS) Evangelist & Developer with more than
10 years experience and currently acting the role of secretary of Swathanthra
Malayalam Computing. He has substantial experience in mentoring many free and
open source software projects and startups in Social technology space to find
their feet, assisting in various capacities from part- time adviser to chief
technologist. Anivar has worked on many fronts like Open standards, Internet
Governance, language technology , FOSS Licensing, Accessibility, ICT public
policy and coordinating remote and scattered teams. He has extensive experience
working with many small and large organisations at the local, regional,
national and international levels. He contributed to the launch and maintenance
of many thematic and regional networks and his activism has always focused on
bridging the awareness gap between digital rights activism and general public
in India.
. He is well known in Indian FOSS community.<br></span></p></div>
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