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| -rw-r--r-- | copyheart.tex | 6 | ||||
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diff --git a/Logbook.tex b/Logbook.tex index 8339a28..062a162 100644 --- a/Logbook.tex +++ b/Logbook.tex @@ -216,12 +216,13 @@ First Edition April 2013 \\ %------------------------------ Appendix ---------------------------------------- \appendix -\chapter*{Appendix} +\chapter{Appendix} \thispagestyle{empty} % don't print page header on new chapter \clearpage \input{copyheart.tex} \input{freeculture.tex} \input{freesoftware-appendix.tex} +\input{smc.tex} %----------------------------- Back Matter -------------------------------------- \backmatter diff --git a/copyheart.tex b/copyheart.tex index d59012c..b59e567 100644 --- a/copyheart.tex +++ b/copyheart.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \newpage \begin{english} -\section*{Copyheart} +\secstar{Copyheart} \subsection*{ {\dejavu ♡} Copying art is an act of love.} @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Although we appreciate and use Free Licenses when appropriate, these aren’t so \subsection*{ {\dejavu ♡} Please copy and share.} -The {\dejavu ♡}Copyheart means we WANT you to copy and share. No restrictions. Just like it says: \textbf{please copy and share.} -\subsection*{ {\dejavu ♡} Learn more.} +The {\dejavu ♡}Copyheart means we WANT you to copy and share. No restrictions. Just like it says: \textbf{please copy and share.}\\ + \\ Learn more about copyheart at \url{www.copyheart.org} \end{english} diff --git a/freeculture.tex b/freeculture.tex index 2f46792..a35eed7 100644 --- a/freeculture.tex +++ b/freeculture.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \newpage \begin{english} -\section*{Free Culture} +\secstar{Free Culture} All creative works --— books, movies, records, software, and so on --- are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible --- technologically and legally. While new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can’t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. diff --git a/freesoftware-appendix.tex b/freesoftware-appendix.tex index dde1bf9..6de623b 100644 --- a/freesoftware-appendix.tex +++ b/freesoftware-appendix.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \newpage \begin{english} -\section*{Free Software (Swathanthra Software)} +\secstar{Free Software (Swathanthra Software)} “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +\newpage +\begin{english} +\secstar{Swathanthra Malayalam Computing} + +Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a free software collective engaged in development, localization, standardization and popularization of various Free and Open Source Softwares in Malayalam language.\end{english} "എന്റെ കമ്പ്യൂട്ടറിനു് എന്റെ ഭാഷ" \begin{english} is the slogan of the organization, which translates to "My language for/on My Computer". + +SMC has been active since October 2002 and has been working to provide Malayalam language tools that work on all layers of computing including and not limited to rendering fixes, fonts, input mechanisms, translations (localization), text-to-speech engines, dictionaries, spell checkers and other indic script based language computing specific tools across operating systems. We are the upstream for Malayalam fonts and tools for popular GNU/Linux based operating systems such as Fedora and Debian. We also maintain localizations for popular Free Software Desktops (GNOME/KDE), popular applications such as Firefox and Libre Office. + +SMC is perhaps the largest language technology developer community in India and collaborates very closely with government and industry, and serves as an advisory to govermental/semi-govermental organizations that determine the future of Malayalam language on computing devices. We are not just developers though, we also have linguists, journalists, Wikipedians, writers and all sorts of language users among us. + +SMC also works on developing accessibility support for indic languages and maintains Dhvani TTS which supports 11 languages . Over the years, SMC has evolved to accommodate developers focused on Indic script based languages and now provides a generic web based Indic language computation framework called SILPA. + +Learn more about Swathanthra Malayalam Computing at \url{www.smc.org.in} +\end{english} |