CALL FOR PROPOSAL Sarai/CSDS Short Term FLOSS Fellowship, 2005 - 2006.

The Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (www.sarai.net) invites applications for fellowship to projects in the area of Free Software, Open Source Software and Social Usage of Software.

Sarai invites developers/researchers/ programmers (practitioners as well as students) to propose projects in the area of free and open source software applications relevant to educational, social and community needs. We are looking for original ideas, as well as proposals to localize and adapt existing software and applications to South Asian conditions. We are also looking for ideas around technical manuscripts,beginners manuals, review manuscripts etc.

Some of the focus areas are:

- Indic Computing - Developing/Distributing/Supporting a standalone / addon localized Linux distribution

- Printing support (i.e. ability to print in Indian Languages)

- Multimedia / Publishing Tools Research

- Developing / Enhancing Tools like GIMP, Scribus for publishing quality work - Enhancing current audio/video tools available under Linux

- Fixing/Supporting Cinelerra, LiVES etc

- P2P

- Researching on feasibility and implementation of P2P news distribution network

- Researching and developing

- Collaboration Tools/Frameworks (Apnaopus, CreativeDot )

- Developing extensions for the project newsrack( http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack ).

- Low Resource Computing

- Devising solutions for networked computing in Low Resource Spaces (Define the parameters of the "low resource space" and work on it)

- Generic

- Developing Linux drivers/software for easily available hardware (usually the cheapest hardware available on the market is not supported under Linux (scanners, webcams etc))

[ This would include writing a howto on how to get it to work under popular distributions (redhat, pcqlinux etc) and all.. ]

- Review papers on emerging technologies - Indic Computing

- IPV6

- Wireless Networks

- Manuscripts for beginners

What is Sarai: _____________

Sarai is a public initiative of media practitioners and scholars looking at media cultures and urban life. Sarai's interests are in the field of old and new media, information and communication technologies, free software, cinema, and urban space - its politics, built form, ecology, culture and history, with a strong commitment to making knowledge available in the public domain. It is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

For more information visit www.sarai.net . Sarai is committed to promoting the free software and open source vision.

Conditions: __________ Applicants should be resident in India, and should have a bank account in any bank operating in India.

These are support grants and grantees will be free to pursue their primary occupations, if any.

Mail your project proposal, workplan and CV to both the following addresses:

<floss at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc >

Please mark your subject line 'FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Initiative'. Also point out what you see as the relevance of your work, and how you plan to share the resultant software once finalized.

Enquires: <floss at sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/prc> Last date for submission: November 15th, 2005

Note: Proposals from teams, partnerships, collectives, faculty are welcome, so long as the grant amount is administered by a single individual, and the funds are deposited in a single bank account in the name of an individual.