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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 conduct more such sessions - even paid ones.

We are still to evaluate the feedback forms. But I am very happy with the event today. I think the team did a great job!

Here are some random pictures!

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 the most. Majority of computer users are still on Windows. And providing localized applications is the first step to bridge the gap.

Utkarsh - our Gujarati laguage initiative - provided the Gujarati translations to CDAC. They have credited us well, and Charles-H. Schulz even called it news of the month!

Yikes! Gee! these are the news of the month! Congratulations to the
Bharateeyaoo and Utkarsh teams!

The good news does not end there! We are doing a lot of work with GujaratiLexicon now. We are giving away the CDs for free as well. Today’s Chitralekha has an article on GujaratiLexicon and Utkarsh. And a coupon which you can redeem for the free CD of GujaratiLexicon.

There is more to come!

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 summarized the progress of last three days and I could see a lot of things being done. With so many hackers in a single place you can certainly expect some miracles. The exciting thing for me especially was Gujarati dictionary support in OpenOffice. Detailed log of what happened during these days is available on the IndLinux website.

The time after the meet was equally interesting. We celebrated Kartik’s birthday and had a blast coming home from HBCSE (the meet venue). Warren played some hip-hop music on his iPod and we heard it via his iTrip on the taxi radio! Dropped by InOrbit to check out the Crosswords book sale.