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Localisation of
Free/Open Source Software
Development Deployment
and Community Building
janabharati
C-DAC Mumbai is working on the project janabhaaratii.
This project is titled 'Localisation of Free/Open Source Software:
Development, Deployment and Community Building'. These includes
contributing to the community efforts in developing a software
suite based on GNU/Linux and made available in Indian languages.
The project is funded by the Technology
Development in Indian Languages (TDIL) group in Department of
Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and IT of
Government of India.
Objective of the janabhaaratii:
To enable wide use of Indian
language computing through Free/Open Source systems and
applications localised in Indian languages.
Invite, build and support
community initiatives to produce and disseminate free/open source
software systems, applications and content to help proliterate
wide-spread use of Information Technology in our society,
breaking language barriers and through affordable means. This
will thus help bridge the so called digital divide.
Development of technology to suit Indian languages,
dissemination of the same, deployment into diverse sections such
as home use, mass applications, education, rural areas,
infokiosks, cybercafes, e-governance, content creation etc.
Some of the places were janabhaaratii made
contributions:
Govt.
of Maharashtra.
Muncipal Administrators'
Office, Worli, Mumbai.
Maharashtra State Police
Control Room, Mumbai.
Sathaye College, Vile Parle,
Mumbai.
SNDT Women's University,
Churchgate, Mumbai
St Paul's School, Ajmer,
Rajasthan.
Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of
Medical Science, Amritsar, Punjab.
University
of Mumbai, Santacruz, Mumbai.
St Anselm's Sr. Sec. School,
Ajmer, Rajasthan.
IWSA (Indian Women Scientist
Association), Vashi Navi Mumbai.
Joshi Bedekar College, Thane.
C-DAC is a pioneer in
development and deployment of Indian language technologies and
products for over 15 years. janabhaaratii project is handled by
C-DAC Air-India bldg office, Nariman Point, Mumbai. In particular
C-DAC, Mumbai has also been in the forefront with the INDIX2
project which makes GNU/Linux operating system specifically
intelligent about indic scripts and gives the world a more generic
approach to deal with complex scripts. Some of the fonts developed
under the INDIX2 project are now also available to public from
TDIL website http://www.tdil.mit.gov.in/download/openfonts.htm
The project inherits and will enhance the access and usability
of the above resources. Further, the project stands on the
shoulders of several teams working on localization of GNU/Linux,
most notably IITs, IIITs,
Indlinux, ankurbangla,
HBCSE(TIFR), FSF
India , MarathiOpenSource
group and Corporations like IBM. Several Resource Centres
supported by TDIL have stacked up a lot of localization resources.
The project envisages threading together these efforts and present
to the community a suite of software components in readily usable
form through Open Source under GPL/LGPL
licences.
The project needs cooperation of language specialists,
linguists, computer specialists, users, governments (Centre and
States), academia (faculty and students) and many others. This is
also an appeal to all to join this mission and bring the benefits
of IT revolution to the majority of population.
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