Swathantra Malayalam Computing is a FOSSy Organisation to promote malayalam computing. Recently SMC has been working on transliteration/ localization for KDE 4.1 - ml. I could also join the team and contribute by translating some 75 strings :).
Malayalam is the first language Indian language to complete the localisation in short span of time. So ml became included with KDE 4.1.
I’m really late to blog about SMC’s KDE release party held at Trivandrum press club. I had planned to join the event. But I was down with fever. I badly missed the event.
It is a fascinating experience to work on translation. It isn’t that difficult to do translation. Technically it is much easier. There is are several tools like poedit, kbabel etc available for editing po files ( translation files). You could just type the translated equvalent word in the same format in the given space. Just have a look at screenshot of poedit.
Now SMC is working on Gnome localisation to malayalam. It would be great some interested people could volunteer to work on translation. It is much easier even type words. Phonetic keyboard tools like Swanalekha can simplify the task. I am poor at inscript keyboard layout. So I used to work with swanalekha fine.
Even though I missed the KDE release party, I am lucky to receive a certificate from SMC 
Well, I have coupled the Dreamajax visit also with my Bangalore journey.
Dreamajax Technologies Pvt. Ltd is a Bangalore based recently incorporated Web Application Developement / Services company. It works at Cyberpark in Electronic City, STPI Incubation centre. I have been in touch with Ram Kumar, The CEO and founder of Dreamajax since the time he started freelance business. Its been an inspiring story of Ram Kumar with his urge to become an entrenpuer. He started his freelance business back in 2005 after graduating MSc Software Engineering from Bharatiar University. He became a freelancer who worked with web technologies over different on-line websites. Later he expanded his business by recruiting a couple of freshers to work on web technologies. It was in a 10×10 ft room at Coimbatore. In 2008 he moved his business to Bangalore at Cyberpark. Now they have got wide range of domains to work with over web.
Ram Kumar, CEO and Founder
Last week I was lucky to have my two days at Dreamajax. I reached Cyberpark on 29th morning along with Ram Kumar and his friend Ashwin and was having a very nice time at the company. There was some little conference arranged and I spoke about Migration to GNU/Linux. I hadn’t made any preparations or slides. So I feel the talk went bad. I showed the staff Ubuntu, Fedora and SLYNUX distros. Next session was handled by Ashwin. He is a living server about technology and he now works as Vice President - Engineering at Dreamajax. He has been working to figure out some embeded systems based business related to smart devices. He presented the progress of their (more…)
