KDE Kerala The story of FOSS & KDE in Kerala Subin Siby - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

KDE Kerala The story of FOSS & KDE in Kerala Subin Siby 2020-01-18 subinsb.com/s/cki2020 1

Outline History of FOSS In Kerala FOSS In Education Localization 2

History of FOSS In Kerala

Kerala Made by Filpro, CC-BY-SA 4.0 Language: Malayalam (മലയാളം) Speakers: 37 Million 3

History of FOSS In Kerala • TeX 1980 • Slackware Linux 1996 • River Valley Technologies First Free Software based company in state • Linux Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram 1998 • Freedom First! conf 2001 FSF-India 4

History of FOSS In Kerala • FOSS.in Bangalore 2001-2012 • Swathanthra Malayalam Computing 2001 • IT@School 2002 • FOSS In Textbooks 2005 Click here for more 5

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing "എെ� ക���റി�് എെ� ഭാഷ" "My language for/on My Computer" • Traditional Malayalam - 1200+ glyphs • Reformed Malayalam - 200+ glyphs • ASCII - 256 • Unicode - 1 Million+ 6

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Traditional vs Reformed Malayalam 7

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing SMC Logo 8

FOSS In Education

FOSS In Schools • Gov. Schools from STD.1-12 are on FOSS • IT Textbooks with FOSS syllabus • IT@School GNU/Linux OS • Lab exams • IT Fair • Practicals with Open Hardware 9

STD 1 IT Textbook Std1-textbook.pdf 10

IT@School GNU/Linux OS cd.jpg 11

IT@School GNU/Linux OS • Ubuntu LTS base • Mate DE • Scratch • KStars • GeoGebra • GCompris • KTechLab • Kalzium • more... 12

Little KITE Clubs KITE Local student clubs in schools to teach tech with FOSS tools 13

Little KITE Clubs • Blender • IoT • Krita, GIMP • School Wiki schoolwiki.in 14

IT Fair School -> District -> State level competitions. • Digital Painting (GIMP) • Scratch Programming • Animation • Presentation • Web Page designing • Malayalam Typing • IT Quiz • ICT Teaching Aid 15

Localization

Localization l10n Translating each strings from a master language to difgerent languages English -> Malayalam, Tamil Chinese -> English, Malayalam 16

Traditional Localization Process • Pick a fjle • Let the localization team know (Lock fjle) • Download the PO fjle • Edit, localize • Send to the team • Wait till review • If corrections needed, goto step 1 • If everything’s alright, • Commit fjle • Remove the lock 17

PO File Part of Dolphin’s PO fjle 18

Problems with Traditional Localization • Diffjcult for a new contributor • Workload on maintainer • Simultaneous localization not possible • Translation Memory • Diffjcult local setup 19

Localization Systems • KDE Traditional Localization l10n.kde.org • GNOME Damned Lies! l10n.gnome.org • F-Droid Weblate hosted.weblate.org • Firefox Mozilla Pontoon pontoon.mozilla.org • Calamares Transifex 20

KDE Malayalam Localization • kde.smc.org.in • Weblate • Suggestions • Voting 21

Localization Data For Machine Translation opusmt.wmfmabs.org 22

KDE Malayalam Localization Team KDE Malayalam Kochi Sprint 23

KDE Malayalam Localization Team KDE Malayalam Thrissur Sprint 24

Our College FOSS Club FOSSers 25

Free Software Community of India fsci.in meetup at Thrissur 26

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