Hi All,

As most of you know we decided already to be present in this conference and promote Fedora. Event page is available At [1].

*1. Represented Fedora @ conference.*

We started planning for this event with Fedora Ambassador group well 2 months in advance and designed T-shirts for branding Fedora as a best platform for Language computing. This T-shirt was distributed to all active contributors to promote message Fedora perfect from language computing perspective. Most of them were available in conference wearing this T-shirt, it truly made people aware regarding yes Fedora takes care for language computing aspects and proud for same.

I met number of people in conference and talked on how can Fedora help them. Specifically mentioned language team is very active in Fedora, most of the innovations happened first in Fedora including IBus, Harfbuzz and Updates regarding Fonts also gets in quickly in Fedora. Fedora i18n team weekly meets AT #fedora-meeting on Tuesday 06:00:00 to 07:00:00 UTC and discuss open issues.

Analysed issues mentioned by ShivaKumar K.M http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#ShivaKumar_KM regarding corpus processing and requested Biraj Karmakar http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#Biraj_Karmakar to test Fedora 21 for Bengali and provide some report.

Parag http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#Parag_Nemade given talk on "*How to create hunspell dictionary on Fedora"*. It was very well attended talk from audience. They learned practically on how to make hunspell dictionary from simple word-list and see it working. It increased there interest on hunspell dictionary. I talked with Omshivaprakash and he suggested it is possible to get some online tool for maintaining hunspell. This is the same thought we were thinking from last couple of months also discussed same with Libreoffice Caolan. Already some work has been done and soon will publish same.

Parag also demonstrated wordxtr package avaialable in Fedora. He demonstrated it with html page and shown how quickly one can extract words with it.

Wanted to distribute some Fedora stickers but somehow missed to collect some from Siddhesh before he moves to Phnom Penh, Cambodia for FAD.

Discussed with Arky about how much language support Firefox OS does has and they also facing same issues which we were face some years back. In Fedora now we have nicely written criteria for language support. I mentioned him, link is here https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/LanguageSupportCriteria :)

Event page for FUELGILT 2014 conference https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUEL_GILT_Conference2014

Overall i am happy with the presence of the Fedora in this conference. Will improve it further in upcoming conference around Language Technology.

I would like to thanks here Rajesh http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#Rajesh_Ranjan, Chandrakant http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#Chandrakant_Dhutadmal and Ankit http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/speaker#Ankitkumar_Patel for supporting activities around Fedora in this conference. Off course our APAC Ambassador group for supporting this.

do read my blog [2] for further information and pics :)

Regards, Pravin Satpute

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUEL_GILT_Conference2014 2. http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2014/11/fuelgilt-2014-conference-and-my.html