ideas-list.md

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 Prerequisites: Ruby and Ruby on Rails
 
+## Varnam Project - Subin
+
+[Varnam](https://varnamproject.com) is a cross-platform tool for typing Indian languages using transliteration. It's a FOSS alternative to Google Input Tools.
+
+Project Repositories : https://github.com/varnamproject
+
+If you have any questions, [ping me](https://subinsb.com/contact).
+
+### New website
+Need to migrate [varnamproject.com](https://varnamproject.com) to a [Hugo site](https://gohugo.io/). Some work has been done on this: https://github.com/thetronjohnson/varnam
+
+Prerequisites: Experience with content management would be nice, HTML+CSS (web development) experience would also be nice (not necessary though).
+
+### Windows Maintainer
+Make [Varnam Desktop](https://github.com/athul/varnam-desktop) app & [Input Method Engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method) work on Windows operating systems.
+
+Prerequisites: Experience in Windows desktop app development, Visual Studio
+
+### Language Maintainers
+* Need to collect words and make word frequency corpus of different Indian languages. Sample word frequency list (in Malayalam) : https://kde.smc.org.in:8123/packs/ml/ml-basic/ml-basic-1/download
+* Need to make English -> Indic Language word pair dictionary. Sample (in Malayalam) :
+```
+civil സിവിൽ
+director ഡയറക്ടർ
+firefox ഫയർഫോക്സ്
+```
+Languages ordered by priority (according to userbase of Varnam) : Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi
+
+Prerequisites: Some experience with website crawling, data collection
+
 # Ideas without mentors but general guidance can be expected
 - Learn to setup and host free software communication tools for local communities.
 - Solution to problems identified locally by using or extending available free software tools.