Talk:IndLinux@FOSS.in
From IndLinux
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Project Day
Day began with introduction to IndLinux by G Karunakar, Also presented was the current Indic status.
Next was talk by Ramkrishna Reddy who talked about Issues in Indian language computing.
Yogananda talk on LaTeX in Indic, and their success in using Kannada for LaTeX was interesting.
Santosh's talk on dhvani was well attended, he gave detailed overview of dhvani & its functioning, how new languages could be added to it, and then demos of dhvani rendering different indian languages.
Shyam spoke about building speech recognition system using CMU Sphinx framework, which went detailed on Speech processing, also with few demos on giving voice commands to computer.
After the talks, session was open in discussions.. with a debate on the future of Indic computing.. till the hall was to be vacated for lightning talks.
BoFs
Indic BoF
L10N Panel BoF didnt happen as planned, so got merged with Indic BoF on 4th Day. The discussion centered around - what the pending tasks are for Indic & about outlining a list of TODO things, splitting them by importance and requesting interested folks to take ownership in coordinating the activities on it. A minutes of Meeting is available at IndicBoF_FOSS.IN
Translation Framework BoF
Attendees: Axel Hecht, Dmitris , Runa, Karunakar, Prasad.
Aim of this BoF was to discuss issues in building and using a Translation database, which could act as single framework to keep a consistent database of translations which could be used. Transifex, Pootle, Entrans were discussed. Main aim from Hindi language perspective was to have a single database of translations & a dictionary, which could be looked up when starting with new translations. On issue raised was using such database with multiple projects which have different licenses & how they would affect usage of a common source.. eg if tranlations from GPL project (KDE/GNOME) could be put in Mozilla/ OpenOffice.org which have different licensing and also have a different workflow for translations.
While no conclusions were reached, but aim is build a system on the lines of TranslationFramework to see if we could have a useful product.
