KDE KeralaThe story of FOSS & KDE in Kerala

Subin Siby2020-01-18

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Outline

History of FOSS In Kerala

FOSS In Education

Localization

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History of FOSS In Kerala

Kerala

Made by Filpro, CC-BY-SA 4.0

Language: Malayalam (മലയാളം)Speakers: 37 Million

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History of FOSS In Kerala

• TeX1980

• Slackware Linux1996

• River Valley TechnologiesFirst Free Software based company in state

• Linux Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram1998

• Freedom First! conf2001FSF-India

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History of FOSS In Kerala

• FOSS.in Bangalore2001-2012

• Swathanthra Malayalam Computing2001

• IT@School2002

• FOSS In Textbooks2005

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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+

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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

Traditional vs Reformed Malayalam

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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

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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

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STD 1 IT Textbook

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IT@School GNU/Linux OS

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IT@School GNU/Linux OS

• Ubuntu LTS base• Mate DE• Scratch• KStars• GeoGebra• GCompris• KTechLab• Kalzium• more...

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Little KITE Clubs

KITE

Local student clubs in schools to teach tech with FOSS tools13

Little KITE Clubs

• Blender• IoT• Krita, GIMP• School Wiki

schoolwiki.in

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IT Fair

School -> District -> State level competitions.

• Digital Painting (GIMP)• Scratch Programming• Animation• Presentation• Web Page designing• Malayalam Typing• IT Quiz• ICT Teaching Aid

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Localization

Localization

l10nTranslating each strings from a master language to different

languages

English -> Malayalam, TamilChinese -> English, Malayalam

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Traditional Localization Process

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

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PO File

Part of Dolphin’s PO file18

Problems with Traditional Localization

• Difficult for a new contributor• Workload on maintainer• Simultaneous localization not possible• Translation Memory• Difficult local setup

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Localization Systems

• KDETraditional Localizationl10n.kde.org

• GNOMEDamned Lies!l10n.gnome.org

• F-DroidWeblatehosted.weblate.org

• FirefoxMozilla Pontoonpontoon.mozilla.org

• CalamaresTransifex

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KDE Malayalam Localization

• kde.smc.org.in• Weblate• Suggestions• Voting

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Localization Data For Machine Translation

opusmt.wmflabs.org22

KDE Malayalam Localization Team

KDE Malayalam Kochi Sprint

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KDE Malayalam Localization Team

KDE Malayalam Thrissur Sprint

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Our College FOSS Club

FOSSers

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Free Software Community of India

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