Hi,
I would like to present a gist of the unconference held on last Saturday at
MIT.
As planned already talks and discussions on 10 topics took place according
to the schedule.
The introductory session by Amachu was followed by the first topic which
started at 9.30.
1. The first topic (by Sukumar, Vinoth, Vignesh and SAG Arun) covered the
basic concepts of how multiple languages are handled in a Free (Linux-based)
OS and how the translation modules are packaged.
2. Vinodh Rajan gave an overview of IPA and conversion of text to phones
that he has done already
3. Akilan explained about the various Free Software licences, their
variations and the compatibility among them.
4. Nagaraja explained his project on Tamil OCR and Tesseract and the future
works.
5. Vinodh Rajan explained about his web application for transliteration
among Indic languages followed by Dr.Muthukumar explaining about Machine
translation
6. Dr.T Vasudevan explained how translation is done using POT, PO and MO
files.
7. From his past experiences Ma Sivakumar presented his ideas on making
software in Tamil, suitable for various commercial purposes and other
organisations.
8. Prof.Muthukumar presented his idea of crawling web pages to build a Tamil
corpus incrementally
9. Tamil based web applications - already existing ones and the ones that
need to be developed were discussed by Ma Sivakumar and Prof.Muthukumar
10. Thangamani Arun presented his views on the need for a distro in Tamil
with native Tamil feel.
The photos have been uploaded at
http://picasaweb.google.com/viky.nandha/TamConf
http://picasaweb.google.com/thangam.arunx/HaZFz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saga123/sets/72157624701056279/
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