CDAC has placed a half page color advertisement in the Mumbai Newsline (Indian Express) and probably other papers about "The release of Free Tamil Software Tools and Fonts". They include 220 Tamil fonts, Tamil Office Suite, Tamil Spell checker, Tamil Browser, Tamil Email, Tamil e-dictionary, Tamil OCR.
Ravi Ventakesan, Chairman of MS India is also going to be present. The venue is Hotel Park Sheraton, Chennai, 5 PM on 15th April 2005.
Can anyone give a first hand report? IF you are part of "ALL" you are invited. The cdac site http://www.cdac.in is slow/not opening, so cannot get the details right now. But the effort if serious is great.
Nowhere is the need to develop low cost applications more serious for national development than India. Not only low cost hardware, but low cost software is essential too. The potential and applications are limitless.
And only the Government, (whose primary mission in theory, is not-for-profit but for people) is in a position to drive such initiatives at such a scale as required.
If anyone is aware of more such Initiatives by the Government please feel free to post.
thank you, abhi
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From: Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com
The cdac site http://www.cdac.in is slow/not opening, so cannot get the details right now. But the effort if serious is great.
They prolly have the server running on a 64Kbps pipe @ VSNL DC :P
If anyone is aware of more such Initiatives by the Government please feel free to post.
Yep, I remember CDAC releasing iLeap(sp?) ( multi lingual word processor ). Shreelipi is another example. I think iLeap was for windows while Shreelipi was for Linux(or was it dos?).
Regards, Dinesh.
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