[devel.cofsug] Re: Introducing myself
- From: Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: devel.cofsug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:49:09 +0530
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:58 PM, mihir kulkarni <mihirk.31@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hello Vasudev,
> I [Mihir Kulkarni] am a final year BTech IT student at COEP. I
> have taken the subject FOSS as an audit course. I'm (along with two
> other friends) currently working on improving Devanagari support on
> Gnome-terminal as our final year project under the guidance of Abhijit
> Sir and Praveen. The detailed description of our project and the work
> we have done till now can be found at-
> http://indiclanguagecomputing.wordpress.com/
>
Praveen forwarded a mail regarding your groups work. I've gone through
whatever you have done till now. Once you are done with devanagari I would
like to apply the same for Kannada language too :)..
>
> I am ready to work under you regarding packaging software for Debian.
> I will try my best to provide maximum efforts from my side.
> Looking forward to your positive reply.
>
Sure let me know which software you want to package for Debian. You can find
the software which needs to be packaged in wnpp.debian.net . Find allready
RFP ed (Request For Package) software there
>
> Thanking You.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mihir Kulkarni
> BTech IT COEP
> CoFSUG
> +91 94203 52422
>
> On 1/22/11, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm Vasudev. A hacker from Karnataka I work on SILPA <
> > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/silpa> and pypdflib <
> > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib> I'm maintaining pypdflib
> > package in Debian-India team. Praveen asked me to join this list as a
> > mentor. I can guide in packaging software for Debian.
> > Also If any one interested we are looking for some developers in SILPA
> and
> > pypdflib projects as there are many tasks are pending. Myself and
> > Santhosh(CCed) can mentor interested people in the above projects. Feel
> free
> > to contact us if you are interested to work on these projects.
> >
> > Let me just brief about the projects.
> > SILPA - Swathantra Indian Language Computing is a project targetted to
> > provide indic language solutions (spellcheking,transliteration,webfonts
> etc)
> > its written using Python programming language. You can have overview of
> the
> > project at http://silpa.smc.org.in
> >
> > Pypdflib - is a PDF library created to solve the issue of rendering indic
> > and other complex scripts in PDF's. This uses pango and cairo API's to
> > render and create PDF's respectively. This also uses Python as
> programming
> > language. The library is still in alpha stage and requires many things to
> be
> > done. Its currently uploaded to Debian Experimental and waiting in the
> new
> > queue. Library is also available in pypi
> >
> > Both projects use Git as version control system.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> >
> > --
> >
> > Vasudev Kamath
> > http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com
> > http://identi.ca/vasudev
> > http://twitter.com/vasudevkamath
> >
>
>
> --
> Mihir Kulkarni
> BTech IT COEP
> CoFSUG
> +91 9420 352 422
> Registered LINUX membership number:- 496684
>
>
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Vasudev Kamath
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