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Second day in Foss.in, another project day.

My schedule for the particular day was Indlinux and Fedora. The other two project days happened in the same day was Open Office and KDE.

The first session on indlinux was by G. Karunagar. The topic was “Indlinux introduction”. He covered the Indic l10n status and indic tools like Spell checker, TTS(Text to Speech) and STT(Speech to Text). He ended up with a call for Indlinux BoF(Birds of Feather).

After Karunagar’s session I moved to Fedora hall where it was time to start session by Mairin Duffy(Interaction Designer at RedHat Inc.) on “How to Theme Fedora”. She described all possible ways through we can hack the fedora theme to make it more eye candy, beginning from the install time graphics.

The evening sessions were completely dedicated to SMC. First session was a workshop by Santhosh Thottingal(SE in Infosys, Contributor to SMC, Creator of Swanalekha, Dhwani and Malayalam spell checker) titled “Dhwani – Indian Language Text to speech system”. It was a rocking session the hall was filled completely and Santhosh presented it well. Lots of funny comments(south Indian reading Gujarati, north Indian reading Malayalam ) made the session more alive.

Then it was Syam’s turn, another SMC contributor and a GSoC candidate. He came up with a workshop titled “A crash course on automatic speech recognition”. In first few minutes he was little scared due to technical problems with his laptop and LCD projector. After that he got the rhythm and ended up with great appreciation.

In that evening we shifted to Anivar’s home. There ended the problem for living space permanently. Anivar was staying there in his newly rented house as a part of centralizing his works in Banglore. It was in the first floor of a flat. It was a pretty looking home with a hall, 2 bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom. Hiran, Suresh and me conquered in the second bedroom. It was a horrible experience for me and Suresh to sleep in the same bed with a little ‘payyans’ of just 19 years and have a too big body .

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