[Student-projects] GSOC 2014 - Project Idea : Indian Language Computing in Firefox OS

[Navaneeth K N]

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Hello Praveen Sridhar,

I think this is a great idea. I can help/mentor on Varnam. Since you are
familiar on the Firefox OS, few questions to you.

* How extensible is the IME? For example, can it host a candidate window
showing a set of suggestions while typing?

* Varnam is written in C. Do you think it can be compiled on Firefox OS?
if yes, how do you think JS - C interoperability works?


On 3/6/14 12:05 AM, Praveen Sridhar wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
> Myself Praveen Sridhar, a 3rd year Mechanical Engineering student at School
> of Engineering, CUSAT. I'm a programmer by passion and am in love with web
> technologies.
> 
> Whilst I have gone through the idea list and am interested in multiple
> projects suggested by SMC mentors, I'd like to share my own idea which I'd
> like to work on.
> 
> I'm sure all of us must have followed the recently concluded MWC, wherein
> Mozilla announced its plans for a 25$
> smartphone<http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/23/mozillas-partners-launch-new-firefox-os-phones-as-it-looks-to-expand-to-new-markets-in-2014/>.
> Mozilla's aim in such a device is to bring the experience of the Web to
> first time Users of smartphones. I believe that India would be a big market
> for such devices.
> 
> To actually reach out to first time smartphone users, the localization of
> the platform has to be perfect. This is where my idea comes in. Although
> there is basic support for Indian Languages on Firefox OS already, not much
> has been done to improve the Keyboard
> input/IME<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Firefox_OS/Customizing_the_keyboard>to
> match with the way Indian Languages are naturally expressed. The
> project
> would be to work out intuitive Keyboards/IME and input methods which would
> enable the common user to use and interact with the Firefox OS easily. The
> project will extend/adapt the capabilities of projects like SILPA and
> Varnam and put all its power into a mobile device to be used by the
> end-users directly.
> 
> The best part of Firefox OS platform is that it is completely open source
> and all the development process can be followed on Github and bugzilla (and
> of-course the mailing lists).
> I have experience in developing for Gaia, which is the user interface for
> Firefox OS. I'm also helping in fixing bugs in Gaia. Since the Keyboard and
> inputs are an integral part of the UI, I'm pretty much equipped for the
> task at hand.
> 
> I'm just starting to scratch at the possibilities and there is certainly a
> lot more refining needed for the project.
> Please do give your valuable opinions and suggestions.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Praveen Sridhar
> irc : psbots
> 
> 
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Cheers,
Navaneeth
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