Amazed with the passion and spirit of wikimedia team during hackthon. Eric gave good starting explanation of basic things of wikimedia and other ongoing activities, such that offline support, mobile support, internationalization.
Hackthon project list was excellent http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011#Topics
I was interested in all but since all activities were parallel thought better to check Lohit fonts support for remaining Indian languages.
I was the leader for font testing activity http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#I18N
Glad to see 4-5 hackthon attendees shown there interest in font testing.
Pre lunch session went in introduction of project, group forming etc. Actual work start after lunch.
first 1 hrs i was just enabling students OS for Indian language, couple of had Fedora in there machine so did it quickly, santhosh helped for enabling Ubuntu for Indian languages.
It was great to see there expression's when they actually started writing in Indian languages. One of attendees (Jatin) father works in CIIL :)
Then explained students important of activity they are going to do, then finally we started.
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/LohitFonts This is the page where finally we put all the testing reports.
In between we had good offline discussion regarding Lohit Tamil fonts, Discussion with Amir regarding on 1 language 2 script problem.
Ended first session with Group Photo http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Hackathon_Mumbai_2011_Groupshot.jpg
Hackthon project list was excellent http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011#Topics
I was interested in all but since all activities were parallel thought better to check Lohit fonts support for remaining Indian languages.
I was the leader for font testing activity http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes#I18N
Glad to see 4-5 hackthon attendees shown there interest in font testing.
Pre lunch session went in introduction of project, group forming etc. Actual work start after lunch.
first 1 hrs i was just enabling students OS for Indian language, couple of had Fedora in there machine so did it quickly, santhosh helped for enabling Ubuntu for Indian languages.
It was great to see there expression's when they actually started writing in Indian languages. One of attendees (Jatin) father works in CIIL :)
Then explained students important of activity they are going to do, then finally we started.
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/LohitFonts This is the page where finally we put all the testing reports.
In between we had good offline discussion regarding Lohit Tamil fonts, Discussion with Amir regarding on 1 language 2 script problem.
Ended first session with Group Photo http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Hackathon_Mumbai_2011_Groupshot.jpg
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