FSUG-Bangalore:Indian Free Software Directory

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Contents 1 Categories 2 Community Projects 3 Localisation 4 Educational Applications 5 Communication Programs 6 Documentation 7 Administration Utilities 8 People 9 Electronics 10 Science 11 Games 12 Graphics 13 Libraries 14 Mail 15 Sound 16 Network 17 Miscellaneous 18 Utilites 19 Web Software 20 Unsorted 20.1 = 20.2 Categories 21 Community Projects 22 Localisation 23 Educational Applications 24 Communication Programs 25 Development 26 Documentation 27 Administration Utilities 28 People 29 Electronics 30 Science 31 Games 32 Graphics 33 Libraries 34 Mail 35 Sound 36 Network 37 Miscellaneous 38 Utilites 39 Web Software 40 Unsorted

[edit] Categories

[edit] Community Projects

||Project|| Sarovar || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org || ||Description|| Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River Valley Technologies.|| ||License || Multiple ||

||Project||GnuIndia || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuindia/ || ||Description|| Other initiatives have also come up, like the GNU India Translation Project (GTP) by gnu_india. It aims at the localization of GNU/Linux program into the native languages of india. || ||License || Not published yet ||

||Project||StupidOS project || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website|| http://www.geocities.com/stupidosproject/|| ||Description|| || ||License || Not Specified ||

[edit] Localisation

||Project||The Linux Localisation Initiative || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ || ||Description||The Linux Localization Initiative aims to translate Linux documentation provided by the Linux Documentation Project (www.linuxdoc.org) and its contributors, into Indian languages. This long and boring sentence should give you an idea about the labors ahead. There are quite a few languages apart from Hindi, which is of course the national language of India. A selection includes Bengali, Marathi, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and Tulu. ||

||Project|| Indlinux(Indian Language Support for Linux Operating System) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://indlinux.org, http://www.lantana.tenet.res.in/ || ||Description|| Indlinux team is a part of the TeNeT (Telecommunication and Networking) group, dedicated to work on "Localisation of Linux to support Indian Languages". A team of people under the guidance of Dr. Hema A. Murthy and Dr. Timothy A. Gonsalves work on the localisation project.|| ||||Some of the projects done are the following|| ||Redhat 7.2 Enabled with Indian languages support||This project work is to enable Redhat 7.2 with Indian languages support (for Tamil and Hindi languages)|| ||Multimodal Interface||The primary focus is to develop a more natural, and user-friendly interface for interaction with the system, mainly for local language applications. In Multimodal Interface (MMI), speech, and handwriting interfaces are provided in addition to the keyboard. They supplement the keyboard, but donot replace it.|| ||Search Engine to search Indian Language Documents|| This project aims at giving a search engine to search Indian language documents. It is a multifont search engine searches documents that are available in different fonts. || || Text-To-Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages and Indian English|| This project is part of the TeNeT group's initiative for developing local language speech interface systems. | Our mission is to develop unrestricted Text-to Speech systems for Indian languages & Indian English for use in various applications such as native TTS for the visually challenged, IVRS services customized to regional languages, TTS on memory constrained devices (PDAs, mobile devices), computer aided learning for rural kiosks etc.|| ||License|| ||

||Project||IndiX (Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix || ||Description||A modified X server to support Indian languages using opentype fonts. Uses Unicode. Seeks to bring Indic support at the OS level on GNU/Linux. Others too agree that NCST's (the Govt of India's Mumbai-based National Centre for Software Technology) localization work is promising, both for Indix and OpenOffice in Hindi. || ||License ||Need to look at the license ||

||Project||Ved|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/ved/|| ||Description||Explores indian holy books that are in sanskrit & translate them in english beside this project will also speak sanskrit shaloks which user will select it is useful for the peoples working on indian culture || ||License || No files released by the project ||

||Project||itrans || ||Developer(s)||Avinash Chopde || ||Project Website||http://www.aczone.com/itrans/ || ||Description|| itrans by Avinash Chopde is a package for printing texts in Indian languages. It uses English-encoded text for input, and it supports the Devanagiri script (used for writing Hindi and some other Indian languages), Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, and Romanized Sanskrit. Input files can be in TeX, LaTeX, HTML, or PostScript format, and Unicode output is supported.||

||Project|| Dhvani || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhvani/ || ||Description||dhvani is a text-to-speech system for Indian languages developed by the Simputer Trust developers and others. It is promising to soon have a better phonetic engine, Java port, language independent framework. ||

||Project||Acharya -- website for multilingual (Indian) systems... || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/perl_enhance.html || ||Description|| From the Systems Development Laboratory of the IIT-Madras. It was taking time to download, and I gotta run... but these guys are doing some great work at IITM. Keep it up! http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/perl_enhance.html . The source of the software libraries has been GPLed. Here is the project link http://sourceforge.net/projects/imli/ FOOTNOTE: Just before closing, I got it... this page is about the use of Indian scripts with PERL. "Nearly a decade ago, it was reported that Sanskrit is the most appropriate language for writing computer software. The report, quoted as having been published in the Forbes magazine, seems to have caught the attention of scholars all over India. Unfortunately, no one seems to have asked if this were feasible! Worse still, Forbes Magazine never carried such a report."|| ||License || Details needed , source code available ||

Oriya

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||Project|| Oriya || ||Developer(s)|| Gora Mohanty,Rajesh Pradhan|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/oriya/|| ||Description|| Linux in oriya is the initiative for making linux available in oriya.||

Tamil

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||Project||gtamilocr || ||Developer(s)||Visweswara and Team || ||Project Website||http://gtamilocr.sourceforge.net || ||Description|| gtamilocr project has released the alpha version of cross-platform GUI based Tamil Optical Character Recognizer(OCR) software under GPL. It will recognize pretrained printed characters. Students are invited to join in this project. ||

||Project|| chennaikavigal|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.chennaikavigal.com/ || ||Description|| ||

||Project||tamillinux Distro || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.tamillinux.org/ || ||Description|| ||

Kannada

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||Project||Kannada Localisation Initiative || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net || ||Description|| Kannada l10n project ||

||Project|| Project Maitre|| ||Developer(s)||Pramod || ||Project Website|| || ||Description||Project Maitre aims to create an infrastructure for rural and/or public schools wanting to implement Linux on their PC’s with Kannada support. ||

||Project|| OpenOffice.org in Kannada|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net/projects/openoffice.org/ || ||Description|| OpenOffice.org in Kannada will undoubtedly bring the benefits of this Office Suite to more people. The first build of Openoffice.org in Kannada is ready now. If you are interested in helping with the project, you can help us with testing the builds, filing bug reports, giving feedback on translations, doing further translations, etc.,||

||Project||Kannada language pack for moodle || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net/moodle/ || ||Description||Kannada Language pack for moodle is now available. The translations were done as part of the ongoing Kannada l10n project, with a tad bit of support from IISc. ||

Malayalam

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||Project||Malayalam for LaTeX2e|| ||Developer(s)|| Alex A.J. || ||Project Website|| http://malayalam.sarovar.org/|| ||Description|| The Malayalam Package offers a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Malayalam, which is the primary language of an estimated 33 million people in the South Indian state of Keralam.||

Telugu

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||Project|| AkRti|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/akrti/ || ||Description|| AkRti is a framework to facilitate easier development of applications that can handle the Indian language Telugu. The modular architecture decouples the input method, the underlying syllable based representation and the on screen display/print.||

||Project|| Anusaaraka|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/Anusaaraka/anu_home.html || ||Description|| Anusaaraka is a computer software which renders text from one Indian language into another. It produces output which is comprehensible to the reader, although at times it might sound odd. For example, a Telugu to Hindi anusaaraka can take a Telugu text and produce output in Hindi which can be understood by a Hindi reader. However, the reader will require some amount of training for reading the output.||

||Project|| Swecha - GNU/Linux Telugu Localization Effort|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://telugu.sarovar.org/ || ||Description|| The project aims at localizing most common applications on GNU/Linux to Telugu including GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice. Attempt is being made to solve technical challenges such providing proper input, display, printing, locales, spell checking etc.

[edit] Educational Applications

||Project|| IndPhar || ||Developer(s)||Indian Journal of Pharmacology (www.ijp-online.com) || ||Project Website ||www.indphar.org/download.htm || ||Description||Indphar.org distributes free educational software related to pharmacology. Fully functional software packages available on this site can be downloaded by anyone free of cost and used for educational and research purposes. The programs will be useful for medical, dental, veterinary & pharmacy students and teachers. ||

[edit] Communication Programs

||Project||Cyberoam Authentication Client || ||Developer(s)|| Amish Mehta|| ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam/ || ||Description||Cyberoam Authentication Client for various platforms(e.g Linux) for 24hr online internet on cable service.||

||Project|| GNUYahoo|| ||Developer(s)||Balamurugan, Nagappan, Gopal, Ramesh, Vishwanathan, Anand Babu, Mridul Jain... and above all, Parag Mehta || ||Project Website||http://gnuyahoo.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| GNU Yahoo is a freely available GNU messenger for Yahoo! It was started by few of GNU hackers at end of the year 2000. GNU Yahoo is a purely console based application which has a geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces. It connects to the Yahoo server using the "libyahoo" library.||

||Project|| JPA (Java Personal Assistant|| ||Developer(s)|| Karthikeyan|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/jpa/|| ||Description||PA (Java Personal Assistant) will have the following modules

• Task & Event Organiser
• Birthday & Anniversary Reminder
• Personalised Mail Notification
• Chat Facility||

||Project||Kpopup || ||Developer(s)|| Santhosh Janardhanan Varghese B George|| ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/kpopup/ || ||Description||This is a chat/instant messenger, whish can be used in both internet and intranet. Coded in VC++. Done by a group of boys who love programming. This messenger have Linux and Windows Versions. We can send inter Operating system messages and alerts ||

||Project|| Y-Chat - A Yahoo Chat Client in Java|| ||Developer(s)||Pushkar || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ychat/ || ||Description||Y-Chat is a Yahoo chat client written entirely in Java and hence runs on anything that has a JRE. It has two unique features, namely - "simultaneous multiple ID login" and "simultaneous multiple lobby joins". ||

||Project||Gym || ||Developer(s)||Druvan S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/gym/ || ||Description||This is a JAVA based Yahoo Messenger Client. It supports unicode, so naturally Users can use any language. As it is Java based, it should work on all Java supported platforms. GYM!-J also provides a console edition also.||

||Project|| jymessenger|| ||Developer(s)||Pushkar || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/jymessenger/ || ||Description|| this is a Yahoo messenger client written entirely in Java currently it supports login,send PM messages,receive PM messages,send Buzz,new mail notifications,logout... it is basicallly a UI to jYmsg project from Sourceforge||

||Project||ijammer || ||Developer(s)||Joe Steeve, Ananth Shrinivas S, Arun Ponniah S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ijammer/ || ||Description|| IJammer is an instant messenger jammer. Instant messengers are a nuisance in some LAN environments ( a.k.a College Networks ). IJammer is a network daemon that runs on One workstation of a LAN and prevents any IM traffic on that lan.||

[edit] Documentation

||Project||GNU/Linux in One Stanza (GNU-Lost) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/howtos (ML) || ||Description|| GNU-LOST project that makes it easy to learn GNU/Linux by giving out one-stanza tips||

||Project||Newbie's Guide to Linux || ||Developer(s)||Sameer Dilip Sahasrabuddhe || ||Project Website|| http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/Documentation/NGL/|| ||Description|| The most appropriate time to read the NGL is when you are seriously thinking of trying out Linux for the first time, when you have started planning towards your first installation and when you are about to try out your newly installed Linux box for the first time.||

||Project||pdftexfaq || ||Developer(s)||CV Radhakrishnan || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftexfaq/ || ||Description|| Freqently asked questions about pdfTeX, variant of TeX that write out PDF directly.||

[edit] Administration Utilities

||Project|| Qryptix|| ||Developer(s)|| Sivasankar Chander|| ||Project Website||http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/qryptix || ||Description||Qryptix,consists of a PAM object and utilities for session & key management for encrypted Home Dir using the International Kernel (CryptoAPI) patches for Linux. ||

||Project||biosconfig || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.nongnu.org/biosconfig/ || ||Description|| biosconfig reads or writes fields in the CMOS non-volatile store, most of which are associated with various functions of the PC Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). The fields, their types and value ranges are specified in a configuration file in the style of GNUstep. This format is familiar to users of the WindowMaker window manager or applets written for it.||

||Project|| Gluster|| ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu, Balamurugan || ||Project Website|| http://www.gluster.org/|| ||Description|| Gluster is a GNU cluster distribution aimed at commoditizing Supercomputing and Superstorage. Core of the Gluster provides a platform for developing clustering applications tailored for a specific tasks such as HPC Clustering, Storage Clustering, Enterprise Provisioning, Database Clustering etc. ||

[edit] People

[edit] Electronics

||Project|| GNUSim8085|| ||Developer(s)|| Sridhar R (ILUGC-Member & Final Year Engg Student)|| ||Project Website||http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnusim8085/ || ||Description||GNUSim8085, Simulator and Assembler for the 8085 Microprocessor. ||

[edit] Science

||Project||MayaVi || ||Developer(s)|| Dr.Prabhu Ramachandran|| ||Project Website||http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| MayaVi - A Free, Cross Platform, Easy to use GUI based scientific data visualizer, written in Python VTK.||

||Project||Phoenix (Physics with homemade equipment and innovative experiments) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ || ||Description|| A software/hardware teaching aid for physics ||

[edit] Games

||Project|| Tuxedo|| ||Developer(s)||Ananth Shrinivas S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/tuxedo/ || ||Description||Tuxedo is a distributed chess engine. It is an engine running a single chess game on a linux cluster for Deeper Ply Search and faster move generation. ||

||Project|| Gipi|| ||Developer(s)||dinker charak || ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/gipi/|| ||Description|| Gipi is a console based jumble like puzzle game. Guess is a word guessing game.||

||Project|| GtkHack|| ||Developer(s)||J. Ali Harlow || ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/gtkhack/|| ||Description|| Gtk+ Hack is a graphical front-end for the roguelike game NetHack and its variants based on Gtk+ 2.x. It supports playing on a local machine as well as connecting to a remote server over the internet.||

||Project||soulcli || ||Developer(s)||Barry Ruffner || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/soulcli/ || ||Description|| A Client / Server application that allows user to connect over the internet to play pen and paper role playing games. Some of the features include Chat, Mapping capabilities, Facing and drawing on maps, Multiple dice selection, and Dice rolling||

[edit] Graphics

[edit] Libraries

||Project||Ashish Gulhati's Perl Modules || ||Developer(s)||Ashish Gulhati || ||Project Website||http://netropolis.org/hash/|| ||Description|| Ashish's open source Perl modules include PerlVision, an object-oriented framework for text-mode GUI controls (checkboxes, radiobuttons, pushbuttons, listboxes, an extensible editbox, menubar with pulldown menus, dialog boxes, etc.); Crypt::PGP5, an object-oriented interface to Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) v5; Crypt::GPG, an object-oriented interface to GnuPG; Persistence::Object::Postgres and Persistence::Database::SQL, which provide object persistence in SQL databases; DBD::Recall and Replication::Recall, for fault tolerance through database replication; Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, for Schnorr authentication and digital signatures; Mail::Mix, an interface to the Mixmaster remailer, and others. Ashish has been releasing open source software since 1994, and wrote many seminal articles about F/OSS, Linux and the Net in PC Quest magazine circa 1993-94||

||Project|| JavaDBF|| ||Developer(s)||Anil Kumar K.|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/javadbf/|| ||Description||JavaDBF is a Java library for reading and writing Xbase (dBase/DBF) files. This library is useful when you want to exchange data with another application which can accept/provide only DBF files. ||

||Project||Perl extension for an Interactive Voice Response System || ||Developer(s)||Mukund Deshmukh || ||Project Website||http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=IVRS || ||Description|| Mukund Deshmukh's Perl extension for an Interactive Voice Response System. Mukund is at Nagpur, visit http://www.betacomp.com/ Ivrs-0.07.tar.gz was released in Feb 2001. It works like this: someone phones a number, the system picks the call and a pre-recorded message is played out. 24 x 7. Your caller gets a voice menu -- to select the info (s)he wants. Besides, the caller can feed in his input info (access code, ID number, etc) through the phone dial-pad. Based on his/her choice, the relevant voice message is played back. It works in any language!||

||Project||Ptf || ||Developer(s)||Davor Ocelic || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ptf || ||Description|| Perl Information and frontend framework for the Prelude Hybrid IDS||

[edit] Mail

[edit] Sound

||Project|| Hymn (PlayFair) || ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu (Maintainer) || ||Project Website|| http://playfair.org/|| ||Description||The project has been renamed Hymn, according to Anand Babu, the maintainer of the project. It is being hosted on two sites (http://playfair.org/ and http://hymn-project.org) by a U.S.-based hosting service provider. ||

[edit] Network

||Project|| RPCAP (Remote Packet Capture system)|| ||Developer(s)|| S. Krishnan|| ||Project Website||http://rpcap.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| RPCAP is a Remote Packet Capture system. It enables you to run a packet capture program (the server) on a target computer, which will sniff the network traffic on that system, and uplink the captured packets to another host (the client), where the captured packets can be processed, analysed and archived .||

||Project|| MGET || ||Developer(s)||Debajyoti Bera || ||Project Website||http://freshmeat.net/projects/mget || ||Description|| mget is a command line download manager. "It splits the file into a number of segments and uses several separate threads to download each segment. It can handle proxies." It's by Debajyoti Bera. IIT, of course. dbera@iitk.ac.in. http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dbera/index.html||

||Project|| httptype|| ||Developer(s)||Philip S Tellis || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/httptype/|| ||Description|| Perl based httptype reads a list of http hosts and optionally the port number for each of these. It then queries each of the hosts and displays the HTTP server software of the host.||

||Project|| GNU Freeipmi|| ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu and team || ||Project Website||http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freeipmi/|| ||Description||The GNU FreeIPMI system provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System Management Software" (in-band) based on IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. ||

[edit] Miscellaneous

||Project||Citybus || ||Developer(s)|| Arun Sharma|| ||Project Website||http://www.sharma-home.net/people/adsharma/projects/citybus/citybus.html || ||Description||Citybus is an open source project to help the general public in India (or anywhere else for that matter) view public transport information on the web. The data is not there yet, but the code is about 80% complete. ||

[edit] Utilites

||Project||byop03 (Build Your Own Privacy)|| ||Developer(s)||Chanda Hedvikar-Hedvikar || ||Project Website|| http://www.bindhast.com/1byop03g.tgz (Project Files) || ||Description||Build Your Own Privacy. Communication programme for secure exchange of files.byop03 is a superset of cyop03.( byop03 = cyop03 + new encryption module ) ||

||Project||keylilla || ||Developer(s)||Chanda Hedvikar-Hedvikar || ||Project Website|| http://www.bindhast.com/1keyli3g.tgz (Project Files) || ||Description|| keylilla is a protocol for secure exchange of files.Keyless.Independent, keyless, protocol for secure exchange of files. Suitable for key-exchange also.||

||Project|| Calpp (Computer Aided Legal Procedures and Proceedings)|| ||Developer(s)||Ramanraj || ||Project Website|| http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/calpp/projdisplay.php|| ||Description|| Calpp aids in defining legal procedures and executing those procedures as proceedings. Calpp uses Postgresql and PHP to create Calpp powered legal systems. ||

||Project|| bzip2 translator|| ||Developer(s)||Ankur Arora , Shikka Garg and V. Venakataraman || ||Project Website||http://www.gnu-india.org/pipermail/gnu-india/20010307/000113.html (Release) || ||Description||Ankur Arora , Shikka Garg and V. Venakataraman wrote this translator. When mapped on a file, you can do bzip compressed I/O. Capabilities include translating a read call, supporting SEEK_* in lseek, and dynamically determines the length of the file (which incidentally is a very slow operation, because the way the way the bz2 library has been written, the only way to find out the length of the uncompressed file is to uncompress it). It has some "major problems" too... concede the developers....||

||Project|| Genie|| ||Developer(s)|| Arun Sharma|| ||Project Website||http://www.sharma-home.net/people/adsharma/projects/genie/index.html || ||Description||Genie is an open source , web based application to maintain genealogy databases. ||

Library Management

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||Project|| Glibms (GNU Library Management System)|| ||Developer(s)|| gauravp sharmad|| ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/glibs|| ||Description|| Glibms is Library management software developed using PHP and PostgreSQL to automate the different activities carried out in the library.||

||Project||Karuna|| ||Developer(s)||Sharmad Naik || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/karuna/ || ||Description|| This project is a library management system designed to automate a library. Taken into consideration all the aspects of a library like search, issue/retrieval, acquisition and other aspects of a library||

[edit] Web Software

||Project||TransConnect || ||Developer(s)|| Ajay Kumar Dwivedi and Binand Raj S . Credits also to Raja Subramanian, among others|| ||Project Website||http://transconnect.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description||This program allows you "almost complete" access to the Internet, through a HTTP proxy like squid. Chirag Kantharia, who's using this, describes it as software that "allows one to connect to remote machines on any port, using http tunneling". ||

||Project||GNOWSYS: Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System || ||Developer(s)|| Nagarjuna G. || ||Project Website|| http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/ || ||Description|| It is official GNU project. It is a hybrid knowledge base with semantic computing features for both declarative and procedural knowledge. More details and live demonstration of the application can be seen from http://www.gnowledge.org/gnowsys/. It is a part of http://www.gnowledge.org project supported by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/), Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research.||

[edit] Unsorted

||Project||IMV (Information Meta View) || ||Developer(s)||Vinod G Kulkarni || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/imv/|| ||Description||"Information Meta View (IMV) system attempts to create a web standard for information storage in a decentralized database. Information is stored as a graph like structure spanning several service providers." Wow! Sounds like something even a hack like me could benefit from! This is work in progres... ||

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[edit] Categories

[edit] Community Projects

||Project|| Sarovar || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org || ||Description|| Sarovar.org is India's first portal to host projects under Free/Open source licenses. It is located in Trivandrum, India and hosted at Asianet data center. Sarovar.org is customised, installed and maintained by Linuxense as part of their community services and sponsored by River Valley Technologies.|| ||License || Multiple ||

||Project||GnuIndia || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuindia/ || ||Description|| Other initiatives have also come up, like the GNU India Translation Project (GTP) by gnu_india. It aims at the localization of GNU/Linux program into the native languages of india. || ||License || Not published yet ||

||Project||StupidOS project || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website|| http://www.geocities.com/stupidosproject/|| ||Description|| || ||License || Not Specified ||

[edit] Localisation

||Project||The Linux Localisation Initiative || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ || ||Description||The Linux Localization Initiative aims to translate Linux documentation provided by the Linux Documentation Project (www.linuxdoc.org) and its contributors, into Indian languages. This long and boring sentence should give you an idea about the labors ahead. There are quite a few languages apart from Hindi, which is of course the national language of India. A selection includes Bengali, Marathi, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and Tulu. ||

||Project|| Indlinux(Indian Language Support for Linux Operating System) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://indlinux.org, http://www.lantana.tenet.res.in/ || ||Description|| Indlinux team is a part of the TeNeT (Telecommunication and Networking) group, dedicated to work on "Localisation of Linux to support Indian Languages". A team of people under the guidance of Dr. Hema A. Murthy and Dr. Timothy A. Gonsalves work on the localisation project.|| ||||Some of the projects done are the following|| ||Redhat 7.2 Enabled with Indian languages support||This project work is to enable Redhat 7.2 with Indian languages support (for Tamil and Hindi languages)|| ||Multimodal Interface||The primary focus is to develop a more natural, and user-friendly interface for interaction with the system, mainly for local language applications. In Multimodal Interface (MMI), speech, and handwriting interfaces are provided in addition to the keyboard. They supplement the keyboard, but donot replace it.|| ||Search Engine to search Indian Language Documents|| This project aims at giving a search engine to search Indian language documents. It is a multifont search engine searches documents that are available in different fonts. || || Text-To-Speech Synthesis in Indian Languages and Indian English|| This project is part of the TeNeT group's initiative for developing local language speech interface systems. | Our mission is to develop unrestricted Text-to Speech systems for Indian languages & Indian English for use in various applications such as native TTS for the visually challenged, IVRS services customized to regional languages, TTS on memory constrained devices (PDAs, mobile devices), computer aided learning for rural kiosks etc.|| ||License|| ||

||Project||IndiX (Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix || ||Description||A modified X server to support Indian languages using opentype fonts. Uses Unicode. Seeks to bring Indic support at the OS level on GNU/Linux. Others too agree that NCST's (the Govt of India's Mumbai-based National Centre for Software Technology) localization work is promising, both for Indix and OpenOffice in Hindi. || ||License ||Need to look at the license ||

||Project||Ved|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/ved/|| ||Description||Explores indian holy books that are in sanskrit & translate them in english beside this project will also speak sanskrit shaloks which user will select it is useful for the peoples working on indian culture || ||License || No files released by the project ||

||Project||itrans || ||Developer(s)||Avinash Chopde || ||Project Website||http://www.aczone.com/itrans/ || ||Description|| itrans by Avinash Chopde is a package for printing texts in Indian languages. It uses English-encoded text for input, and it supports the Devanagiri script (used for writing Hindi and some other Indian languages), Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, and Romanized Sanskrit. Input files can be in TeX, LaTeX, HTML, or PostScript format, and Unicode output is supported.||

||Project|| Dhvani || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhvani/ || ||Description||dhvani is a text-to-speech system for Indian languages developed by the Simputer Trust developers and others. It is promising to soon have a better phonetic engine, Java port, language independent framework. ||

||Project||Acharya -- website for multilingual (Indian) systems... || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/perl_enhance.html || ||Description|| From the Systems Development Laboratory of the IIT-Madras. It was taking time to download, and I gotta run... but these guys are doing some great work at IITM. Keep it up! http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/perl_enhance.html . The source of the software libraries has been GPLed. Here is the project link http://sourceforge.net/projects/imli/ FOOTNOTE: Just before closing, I got it... this page is about the use of Indian scripts with PERL. "Nearly a decade ago, it was reported that Sanskrit is the most appropriate language for writing computer software. The report, quoted as having been published in the Forbes magazine, seems to have caught the attention of scholars all over India. Unfortunately, no one seems to have asked if this were feasible! Worse still, Forbes Magazine never carried such a report."|| ||License || Details needed , source code available ||

Oriya

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||Project|| Oriya || ||Developer(s)|| Gora Mohanty,Rajesh Pradhan|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/oriya/|| ||Description|| Linux in oriya is the initiative for making linux available in oriya.||

Tamil

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||Project||gtamilocr || ||Developer(s)||Visweswara and Team || ||Project Website||http://gtamilocr.sourceforge.net || ||Description|| gtamilocr project has released the alpha version of cross-platform GUI based Tamil Optical Character Recognizer(OCR) software under GPL. It will recognize pretrained printed characters. Students are invited to join in this project. ||

||Project|| chennaikavigal|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.chennaikavigal.com/ || ||Description|| ||

||Project||tamillinux Distro || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.tamillinux.org/ || ||Description|| ||

Kannada

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||Project||Kannada Localisation Initiative || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net || ||Description|| Kannada l10n project ||

||Project|| Project Maitre|| ||Developer(s)||Pramod || ||Project Website|| || ||Description||Project Maitre aims to create an infrastructure for rural and/or public schools wanting to implement Linux on their PC's with Kannada support. ||

||Project|| OpenOffice.org in Kannada|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net/projects/openoffice.org/ || ||Description|| OpenOffice.org in Kannada will undoubtedly bring the benefits of this Office Suite to more people. The first build of Openoffice.org in Kannada is ready now. If you are interested in helping with the project, you can help us with testing the builds, filing bug reports, giving feedback on translations, doing further translations, etc.,||

||Project||Kannada language pack for moodle || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://kannada.sourceforge.net/moodle/ || ||Description||Kannada Language pack for moodle is now available. The translations were done as part of the ongoing Kannada l10n project, with a tad bit of support from IISc. ||

Malayalam

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||Project||Malayalam for LaTeX2e|| ||Developer(s)|| Alex A.J. || ||Project Website|| http://malayalam.sarovar.org/|| ||Description|| The Malayalam Package offers a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Malayalam, which is the primary language of an estimated 33 million people in the South Indian state of Keralam.||

Telugu

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||Project|| AkRti|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/akrti/ || ||Description|| AkRti is a framework to facilitate easier development of applications that can handle the Indian language Telugu. The modular architecture decouples the input method, the underlying syllable based representation and the on screen display/print.||

||Project|| Anusaaraka|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/Anusaaraka/anu_home.html || ||Description|| Anusaaraka is a computer software which renders text from one Indian language into another. It produces output which is comprehensible to the reader, although at times it might sound odd. For example, a Telugu to Hindi anusaaraka can take a Telugu text and produce output in Hindi which can be understood by a Hindi reader. However, the reader will require some amount of training for reading the output.||

||Project|| Swecha - GNU/Linux Telugu Localization Effort|| ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://telugu.sarovar.org/ || ||Description|| The project aims at localizing most common applications on GNU/Linux to Telugu including GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice. Attempt is being made to solve technical challenges such providing proper input, display, printing, locales, spell checking etc.

[edit] Educational Applications

||Project|| IndPhar || ||Developer(s)||Indian Journal of Pharmacology (www.ijp-online.com) || ||Project Website ||www.indphar.org/download.htm || ||Description||Indphar.org distributes free educational software related to pharmacology. Fully functional software packages available on this site can be downloaded by anyone free of cost and used for educational and research purposes. The programs will be useful for medical, dental, veterinary & pharmacy students and teachers. ||

[edit] Communication Programs

||Project||Cyberoam Authentication Client || ||Developer(s)|| Amish Mehta|| ||Project Website||http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam/ || ||Description||Cyberoam Authentication Client for various platforms(e.g Linux) for 24hr online internet on cable service.||

||Project|| GNUYahoo|| ||Developer(s)||Balamurugan, Nagappan, Gopal, Ramesh, Vishwanathan, Anand Babu, Mridul Jain... and above all, Parag Mehta || ||Project Website||http://gnuyahoo.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| GNU Yahoo is a freely available GNU messenger for Yahoo! It was started by few of GNU hackers at end of the year 2000. GNU Yahoo is a purely console based application which has a geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces. It connects to the Yahoo server using the "libyahoo" library.||

||Project|| JPA (Java Personal Assistant|| ||Developer(s)|| Karthikeyan|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/jpa/|| ||Description||PA (Java Personal Assistant) will have the following modules

• Task & Event Organiser
• Birthday & Anniversary Reminder
• Personalised Mail Notification
• Chat Facility||

||Project||Kpopup || ||Developer(s)|| Santhosh Janardhanan Varghese B George|| ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/kpopup/ || ||Description||This is a chat/instant messenger, whish can be used in both internet and intranet. Coded in VC++. Done by a group of boys who love programming. This messenger have Linux and Windows Versions. We can send inter Operating system messages and alerts ||

||Project|| Y-Chat - A Yahoo Chat Client in Java|| ||Developer(s)||Pushkar || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ychat/ || ||Description||Y-Chat is a Yahoo chat client written entirely in Java and hence runs on anything that has a JRE. It has two unique features, namely - "simultaneous multiple ID login" and "simultaneous multiple lobby joins". ||

||Project||Gym || ||Developer(s)||Druvan S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/gym/ || ||Description||This is a JAVA based Yahoo Messenger Client. It supports unicode, so naturally Users can use any language. As it is Java based, it should work on all Java supported platforms. GYM!-J also provides a console edition also.||

||Project|| jymessenger|| ||Developer(s)||Pushkar || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/jymessenger/ || ||Description|| this is a Yahoo messenger client written entirely in Java currently it supports login,send PM messages,receive PM messages,send Buzz,new mail notifications,logout... it is basicallly a UI to jYmsg project from Sourceforge||

||Project||ijammer || ||Developer(s)||Joe Steeve, Ananth Shrinivas S, Arun Ponniah S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ijammer/ || ||Description|| IJammer is an instant messenger jammer. Instant messengers are a nuisance in some LAN environments ( a.k.a College Networks ). IJammer is a network daemon that runs on One workstation of a LAN and prevents any IM traffic on that lan.||

[edit] Development

||Project|| GNU/LDTP || ||Developer(s)|| Nagappan A || ||Project Website|| http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp || ||Description|| GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework has tools to generate "AppMap" by reading through the user interface components of an application. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the application. ||

||Project||Octave-GTK || ||Developer(s)||Hemant Kumar, Ramasamy, R Saravana Manickam, Muthiah, Dhruvkaran N. Mehta || ||Project Website||http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net/|| ||Description||Octave GTK+ is a set of Octave bindings for GTK, to help develop GUI programs from Octave, with GTK+. It aims to aid fast creation of scientific programs that need GUIs as well as number crunching power ||

||Project||KDOC (API doc generation tool) || ||Developer(s)|| Sirtaj Singh Kang 'tag' with KDE Team|| ||Project Website|| || ||Description|| ||

||Project|| kgdb|| ||Developer(s)||Amit Kale || ||Project Website|| http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/|| ||Description||KGDB is a source level debugger for linux kernel. It is used along with gdb to debug linux kernel. Kernel developers can debug a kernel similar to application programs with use of KGDB. It makes it possible to place breakpoints in kernel code, step through the code and observe variables. ||

||Project||Anjuta IDE|| ||Developer(s)|| Kh. Naba Kumar Singh.|| ||Project Website|| http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/|| ||Description||Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME. Features include project management, application wizards, an onboard interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with browsing and syntax highlighting.||

||Project||Safeheap|| ||Developer(s)|| Ravi Sankar Guntur.|| ||Project Website|| http://gitorious.org/slp-siso/safeheap || ||Description||Safeheap is a dynamic shared library that can detect memory corruption in a C or C++ programs.No need to recompile or relink the application. It works based on dynamic linker's LD_PRELOAD. Upon detecting memory corruptions like buffer overrun, underrun, invalid buffer usage etc, the program would be stopped with a SIGEGV and log file would contain the backtrace of the bug.||

||Project||Memleak|| ||Developer(s)|| Ravi Sankar Guntur.|| ||Project Website|| http://gitorious.org/slp-siso/memleak || ||Description||Memleak is a dynamic shared library that can detect memory leaks in a C or C++ programs.No need to recompile or relink the application. It works based on dynamic linker's LD_PRELOAD. Memory leaks with backtrace is written to a log file||

[edit] Documentation

||Project||GNU/Linux in One Stanza (GNU-Lost) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/howtos (ML) || ||Description|| GNU-LOST project that makes it easy to learn GNU/Linux by giving out one-stanza tips||

||Project||Newbie's Guide to Linux || ||Developer(s)||Sameer Dilip Sahasrabuddhe || ||Project Website|| http://db.ilug-bom.org.in/Documentation/NGL/|| ||Description|| The most appropriate time to read the NGL is when you are seriously thinking of trying out Linux for the first time, when you have started planning towards your first installation and when you are about to try out your newly installed Linux box for the first time.||

||Project||pdftexfaq || ||Developer(s)||CV Radhakrishnan || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftexfaq/ || ||Description|| Freqently asked questions about pdfTeX, variant of TeX that write out PDF directly.||

[edit] Administration Utilities

||Project|| Qryptix|| ||Developer(s)|| Sivasankar Chander|| ||Project Website||http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/qryptix || ||Description||Qryptix,consists of a PAM object and utilities for session & key management for encrypted Home Dir using the International Kernel (CryptoAPI) patches for Linux. ||

||Project||biosconfig || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.nongnu.org/biosconfig/ || ||Description|| biosconfig reads or writes fields in the CMOS non-volatile store, most of which are associated with various functions of the PC Basic Input/Output System (BIOS). The fields, their types and value ranges are specified in a configuration file in the style of GNUstep. This format is familiar to users of the WindowMaker window manager or applets written for it.||

||Project|| Gluster|| ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu, Balamurugan || ||Project Website|| http://www.gluster.org/|| ||Description|| Gluster is a GNU cluster distribution aimed at commoditizing Supercomputing and Superstorage. Core of the Gluster provides a platform for developing clustering applications tailored for a specific tasks such as HPC Clustering, Storage Clustering, Enterprise Provisioning, Database Clustering etc. ||

[edit] People

[edit] Electronics

||Project|| GNUSim8085|| ||Developer(s)|| Sridhar R (ILUGC-Member & Final Year Engg Student)|| ||Project Website||http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnusim8085/ || ||Description||GNUSim8085, Simulator and Assembler for the 8085 Microprocessor. ||

[edit] Science

||Project||MayaVi || ||Developer(s)|| Dr.Prabhu Ramachandran|| ||Project Website||http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| MayaVi - A Free, Cross Platform, Easy to use GUI based scientific data visualizer, written in Python VTK.||

||Project||Phoenix (Physics with homemade equipment and innovative experiments) || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website||http://www.nsc.res.in/~elab/phoenix/ || ||Description|| A software/hardware teaching aid for physics ||

[edit] Games

||Project|| Tuxedo|| ||Developer(s)||Ananth Shrinivas S || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/tuxedo/ || ||Description||Tuxedo is a distributed chess engine. It is an engine running a single chess game on a linux cluster for Deeper Ply Search and faster move generation. ||

||Project|| Gipi|| ||Developer(s)||dinker charak || ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/gipi/|| ||Description|| Gipi is a console based jumble like puzzle game. Guess is a word guessing game.||

||Project|| GtkHack|| ||Developer(s)||J. Ali Harlow || ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/gtkhack/|| ||Description|| Gtk+ Hack is a graphical front-end for the roguelike game NetHack and its variants based on Gtk+ 2.x. It supports playing on a local machine as well as connecting to a remote server over the internet.||

||Project||soulcli || ||Developer(s)||Barry Ruffner || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/soulcli/ || ||Description|| A Client / Server application that allows user to connect over the internet to play pen and paper role playing games. Some of the features include Chat, Mapping capabilities, Facing and drawing on maps, Multiple dice selection, and Dice rolling||

[edit] Graphics

[edit] Libraries

||Project||Ashish Gulhati's Perl Modules || ||Developer(s)||Ashish Gulhati || ||Project Website||http://netropolis.org/hash/|| ||Description|| Ashish's open source Perl modules include PerlVision, an object-oriented framework for text-mode GUI controls (checkboxes, radiobuttons, pushbuttons, listboxes, an extensible editbox, menubar with pulldown menus, dialog boxes, etc.); Crypt::PGP5, an object-oriented interface to Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) v5; Crypt::GPG, an object-oriented interface to GnuPG; Persistence::Object::Postgres and Persistence::Database::SQL, which provide object persistence in SQL databases; DBD::Recall and Replication::Recall, for fault tolerance through database replication; Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, for Schnorr authentication and digital signatures; Mail::Mix, an interface to the Mixmaster remailer, and others. Ashish has been releasing open source software since 1994, and wrote many seminal articles about F/OSS, Linux and the Net in PC Quest magazine circa 1993-94||

||Project|| JavaDBF|| ||Developer(s)||Anil Kumar K.|| ||Project Website|| http://sarovar.org/projects/javadbf/|| ||Description||JavaDBF is a Java library for reading and writing Xbase (dBase/DBF) files. This library is useful when you want to exchange data with another application which can accept/provide only DBF files. ||

||Project||Perl extension for an Interactive Voice Response System || ||Developer(s)||Mukund Deshmukh || ||Project Website||http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=IVRS || ||Description|| Mukund Deshmukh's Perl extension for an Interactive Voice Response System. Mukund is at Nagpur, visit http://www.betacomp.com/ Ivrs-0.07.tar.gz was released in Feb 2001. It works like this: someone phones a number, the system picks the call and a pre-recorded message is played out. 24 x 7. Your caller gets a voice menu -- to select the info (s)he wants. Besides, the caller can feed in his input info (access code, ID number, etc) through the phone dial-pad. Based on his/her choice, the relevant voice message is played back. It works in any language!||

||Project||Ptf || ||Developer(s)||Davor Ocelic || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/ptf || ||Description|| Perl Information and frontend framework for the Prelude Hybrid IDS||

[edit] Mail

[edit] Sound

||Project|| Hymn (PlayFair) || ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu (Maintainer) || ||Project Website|| http://playfair.org/|| ||Description||The project has been renamed Hymn, according to Anand Babu, the maintainer of the project. It is being hosted on two sites (http://playfair.org/ and http://hymn-project.org) by a U.S.-based hosting service provider. ||

[edit] Network

||Project|| RPCAP (Remote Packet Capture system)|| ||Developer(s)|| S. Krishnan|| ||Project Website||http://rpcap.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description|| RPCAP is a Remote Packet Capture system. It enables you to run a packet capture program (the server) on a target computer, which will sniff the network traffic on that system, and uplink the captured packets to another host (the client), where the captured packets can be processed, analysed and archived .||

||Project|| MGET || ||Developer(s)||Debajyoti Bera || ||Project Website||http://freshmeat.net/projects/mget || ||Description|| mget is a command line download manager. "It splits the file into a number of segments and uses several separate threads to download each segment. It can handle proxies." It's by Debajyoti Bera. IIT, of course. dbera@iitk.ac.in. http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dbera/index.html||

||Project|| httptype|| ||Developer(s)||Philip S Tellis || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/httptype/|| ||Description|| Perl based httptype reads a list of http hosts and optionally the port number for each of these. It then queries each of the hosts and displays the HTTP server software of the host.||

||Project|| GNU Freeipmi|| ||Developer(s)||Anand Babu and team || ||Project Website||http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freeipmi/|| ||Description||The GNU FreeIPMI system provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System Management Software" (in-band) based on IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. ||

[edit] Miscellaneous

||Project||Citybus || ||Developer(s)|| Arun Sharma|| ||Project Website||http://www.sharma-home.net/people/adsharma/projects/citybus/citybus.html || ||Description||Citybus is an open source project to help the general public in India (or anywhere else for that matter) view public transport information on the web. The data is not there yet, but the code is about 80% complete. ||

[edit] Utilites

||Project||byop03 (Build Your Own Privacy)|| ||Developer(s)||Chanda Hedvikar-Hedvikar || ||Project Website|| http://www.bindhast.com/1byop03g.tgz (Project Files) || ||Description||Build Your Own Privacy. Communication programme for secure exchange of files.byop03 is a superset of cyop03.( byop03 = cyop03 + new encryption module ) ||

||Project||keylilla || ||Developer(s)||Chanda Hedvikar-Hedvikar || ||Project Website|| http://www.bindhast.com/1keyli3g.tgz (Project Files) || ||Description|| keylilla is a protocol for secure exchange of files.Keyless.Independent, keyless, protocol for secure exchange of files. Suitable for key-exchange also.||

||Project|| Calpp (Computer Aided Legal Procedures and Proceedings)|| ||Developer(s)||Ramanraj || ||Project Website|| http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/calpp/projdisplay.php|| ||Description|| Calpp aids in defining legal procedures and executing those procedures as proceedings. Calpp uses Postgresql and PHP to create Calpp powered legal systems. ||

||Project|| bzip2 translator|| ||Developer(s)||Ankur Arora , Shikka Garg and V. Venakataraman || ||Project Website||http://www.gnu-india.org/pipermail/gnu-india/20010307/000113.html (Release) || ||Description||Ankur Arora , Shikka Garg and V. Venakataraman wrote this translator. When mapped on a file, you can do bzip compressed I/O. Capabilities include translating a read call, supporting SEEK_* in lseek, and dynamically determines the length of the file (which incidentally is a very slow operation, because the way the way the bz2 library has been written, the only way to find out the length of the uncompressed file is to uncompress it). It has some "major problems" too... concede the developers....||

||Project|| Genie|| ||Developer(s)|| Arun Sharma|| ||Project Website||http://www.sharma-home.net/people/adsharma/projects/genie/index.html || ||Description||Genie is an open source , web based application to maintain genealogy databases. ||

Library Management

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||Project|| Glibms (GNU Library Management System)|| ||Developer(s)|| gauravp sharmad|| ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/glibs|| ||Description|| Glibms is Library management software developed using PHP and PostgreSQL to automate the different activities carried out in the library.||

||Project||Karuna|| ||Developer(s)||Sharmad Naik || ||Project Website||http://sarovar.org/projects/karuna/ || ||Description|| This project is a library management system designed to automate a library. Taken into consideration all the aspects of a library like search, issue/retrieval, acquisition and other aspects of a library||

[edit] Web Software

||Project||TransConnect || ||Developer(s)|| Ajay Kumar Dwivedi and Binand Raj S . Credits also to Raja Subramanian, among others|| ||Project Website||http://transconnect.sourceforge.net/ || ||Description||This program allows you "almost complete" access to the Internet, through a HTTP proxy like squid. Chirag Kantharia, who's using this, describes it as software that "allows one to connect to remote machines on any port, using http tunneling". ||

||Project||GNOWSYS: Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System || ||Developer(s)|| Nagarjuna G. || ||Project Website|| http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/ || ||Description|| It is official GNU project. It is a hybrid knowledge base with semantic computing features for both declarative and procedural knowledge. More details and live demonstration of the application can be seen from http://www.gnowledge.org/gnowsys/. It is a part of http://www.gnowledge.org project supported by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/), Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research.||

[edit] Unsorted

||Project||IMV (Information Meta View) || ||Developer(s)||Vinod G Kulkarni || ||Project Website|| http://sourceforge.net/projects/imv/|| ||Description||"Information Meta View (IMV) system attempts to create a web standard for information storage in a decentralized database. Information is stored as a graph like structure spanning several service providers." Wow! Sounds like something even a hack like me could benefit from! This is work in progres... ||

||Project|| || ||Developer(s)|| || ||Project Website|| || ||Description|| || ||License || ||