[Student-projects] [smc-discuss] Accepted GsoC proposals

[V. Sasi Kumar]

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 01:41 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote:
> Google announced accepted proposals for Google summer of code 2014
> today . We are very happy to announce that there are 5 projects under
> SMC this year . To select the most eligible proposals we had to go
> through some vigorous discussions. We contacted the students whose
> proposals we found interesting, made them make some modifications on
> their proposal, evaluated the students based on their proposal,
> previous contributions, contributions to other FLOSS projects etc. and
> finally chose five out of them. It was a very difficult task for us
> indeed as all of the proposals were really good and all of the
> students were really enthusiastic. All of your participation is much
> appreciated.
> 
> Selected proposals are
> 
> * Alt approach to input text as braille using XKB - Nalin Mentor : 
> 
> * Improving learning in varnam - Kevin Martin
> 
> * Implementing support for various regional language IMEs in Firefox
> OS - Praveen Sridhar
> 
> * Android SDK for Silpa - Sujith V
> 
> * Language Filter for Diaspora - Abhineet Agarwal
> 
> Congrats Nalin, Kevin, Praveen Sridhar, Sujith V and Abhneet Agarwal
> 
> And happy to see Aboobacker Mk selected in Apertium project for
> Malayalam English language pair support. Congrats Aboobakar
> 
Congratulations to all participants and to SMC specially for becoming a
mentor organisation again.

Sasi
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