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

[Praveen Sridhar]

Greetings.

I had a discussion with Anivar on the proposal and he suggested me to do a
feasiblity study on jquery.ime library for the implementation of the idea.

I've made a quick hack using the library and have blogged about it here :
http://psbots.blogspot.com/2014/03/indian-language-support-on-firefox-os.html

I request the mentors to go through it and give your valuable suggestions.

I'm in the process of writing a detailed proposal for the Idea.


Regards,
Praveen Sridhar


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Praveen Sridhar <prvn431 at gmail.com> 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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