FOSSMeet 2020
FOSSMeet is an annual event at NIT Calicut that brings together the Free and Open Source Community from around the country.
Submitted Mar 4, 2020
How & Why I made the Manglish app, a free software app to convert Malayalam text to Manglish. It’s the story of this app, how it’s helping 2000+ users and the benefits obtained by making it free software and publishing on F-Droid.
Target audience: People who want to get into FOSS development, FOSS enthusiasts, Malayalees who can’t read Malayalam.
A curious mind. A laptop/phone would be handy to check the links and references out.
I’ve been a contributor to FOSS since I was 13. I’ve played with many things, from web to sysadmin to PyQt to Android. I’ve only recently started contributing to SMC. I’m a student and I can relate to the majority of students in the audience. I’m currentlty the Malayalam localization maintainer of KDE. I’ve contributed to many software including Mediawiki, Ubuntu, Drupal and WordPress.
I’m the only person to make a Manglish to Malayalam Android app. Many has did Manglish->Malayalam, but nobody much has catered to the minority Manglish audience. So, this is something new :)
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