SMC- Misc Projects

Last week Kalyani Menon Sen, a citizen, and petitioner in the Aadhaar case sent a legal notice to the Government of Kerala which has made Aadhaar mandatory for all state government jobs. We are issuing a joint statement supporting this action

SMC Featured on EdexLive & FSF MonthlyArticle about SMC on EdexLive print edition.Free Software Supporter - Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest featured the EdexLive article about SMC in it's June 2020 edition.TinkerHub Talks with SMC PeopleBalasankar Talks about his FOSS journey.TinkerHub, a non-profit tech

New Look for SMC Website!SMC website now runs on a modernized tech stack. Latest redesign enables dark mode and makes the website localised and mobile friendly. New website is available on IPFS as wellThe website migration was carried out by Santhosh Thottingal, Jishnu Mohan, Aashik Salahudeen, Balasankar C

സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയർ അധിഷ്ഠിതമായ തനതായ സാസ് സംവിധാനങ്ങൾ വലിയ തോതിൽ നിർമ്മിച്ചു സാങ്കേതികസ്വയംപര്യാപ്തത കൈവരിക്കാനുള്ള ഊർജിതമായ നടപടികളാണ് ഇനിയുണ്ടാകേണ്ടത്.

Indic-En Released: Firefox Extension for Indic Languages to Latin Script ConversionUsing Indic-En extension in Hindi WikipediaIndic-En, a browser extension, which helps to read major Indic language text in English script  released.   I found lot of people struggling to read Malayalam because they don't know the script. I expect,

Manjari with Tabular numbersThis was originally written by Santhosh Thottingal and published at Thottingal.in.A new version of Manjari Malayalam typeface is available now. Version 1.800 adds tabular number and slashed zero opentype features along with bug fixes.New version of the font is available at: https:

Chilanka used in palmleafsThis was originally written by Santhosh Thottingal and published at Thottingal.in.A new version of Chilanka Malayalam typeface is available now. Version 1.500 adds glyphs required to support International Alphabet of Sanskrit TransliterationNew version of the font is available at: https://smc.org.

Gayathri's first anniversary, improved handwriting recognition algorithm, Indic Project website revamped and moreGayathri celebrated its first anniversary on 20th February 2020. Designer, Binoy Dominic shared his sheer happiness on witnessing the ... [More] font he designed almost everywhere.The font was built by SMC with the support of Kerala Bhasha Institute. [Less]

Handwriting recognition in action.This was originally written by Santhosh Thottingal and published at Thottingal.in.Many months back, I started an experiment to see if Malayalam handwriting recognition can be done in a non-machine learning based approach. This blog post explains the approach, the work done so far and

SMC at IndiaOS 2020The first edition of open source conference IndiaOS held at Bengaluru on 18th of January.Anish Sheela, Anivar Aravind, Biswas, Mujeeb Rahman and Kailash Nadh took sessions.IndiaOS GrantsBiswas got awarded IndiaOS grants along with Internet Freedom Foundation for initiating and leading Rescue Kerala project.