L2C2

L2C2 – Low Cost Localized Computing, is coming. Computing will become affordable to masses and will be available in their native language. My updates here will revolve around the philosophy, need and progress in the L2C2 area, our work with Utkarsh (bringing computers in Gujarati language) and updates on the Indic computing scene.

There are 10 posts tagged L2C2 (this is page 2 of 2).

Join hands with Firefox

Mozilla Foundation is coming to India. If you are interested in Firefox, are a contributor, or want to contribute, you must grab this opportunity! Seth Bindernagel (Community Program Manager) and JT Batson (Head, International Marketing Efforts) of Mozilla Foundation are coming to India in mid July. The purpose of the trip is build further community […]

CDAC experience

We do a lot of work in localization – especially for Gujarati language. We met Mahesh Kulkarni of CDAC Pune yesterday. We have met many other people in public sector and government over the last 3 years about Utkarsh and GujaratiLexicon. We have always got many hurdles. People have always spoken a lot about it, […]

Utkarsh Training workshop

We organized a training workshop for Utkarsh today. It was a major success. The intention of the seminar was to teach people computers using Gujarati language, and Utkarsh as the software medium. The team did a great job. All participants were thrilled, and felt they learnt a lot about computers. They actually wanted us to […]

Utkarsh, GujaratiLexicon and CDAC

CDAC released OpenOffice.org in 7 Indian languages a few days ago. It’s a great step forward for Indian language computing. CDAC will also be distributing free CDs of these software very soon. This means Indians can now easily have their language on their computers. The step is important because Office applications are what people use […]

Indic Developers Meet

I attended the Indic Developer’s Meet yesterday. It was the last day of the four day long get-together to hack on localization related issues and to also brainstorm and generate ideas. At the same time to get a perspective of what all language teams and involved organizations are doing. The day was fantastic! Gora Mohanti […]