Project Ideas
Convert Varamozhi logic to ICU transforms
Advantage being, that is the most standardized representation of transformation logic concisely. ICU code could be used for a flexible Varamozhi engine to be used as a C library or Java applet.
A standalone editor with unicode capability
Something like varamozhi's editor; but with native Unicode capability. For example, this could be built using Qt.
Enhance English-Malayalam transliteration dictionary in Varamozhi
See Varamozhi:Community_Portal#Selecting_English_words_to_be_included
Convert Malayalam to Manglish to generic library
Convert the structure of lam_src code in varmaozhi to that of mal_src so that there won't be name clash between libraries.
Webcrawler to autogenerate rules from varamozhi english community effort
Something that use wget (or similar) to get the newly added rules and create Varamozhi rules based on that.
Ascii encoded font to Unicode font
Convert an ascii encoded font to Unicode font automagically. The mapping available in Varamozhi source and the XML representation of a font(eg: TTX package) could be used for this. Contact person: Prasanth R (prasanth.r അറ്റ് gmail).
International Phonetic Alphabet for Malayalam
IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet) can be a very useful method for even the Dictionary project. Unlike English, we can have more or less exact IPA conversion (to and fro) for Indian Languages.
There can be popular IPA to Voice synthesis systems later, in which case, our Malayalam to IPA schemes could be easily adapted to them as they get ready!
Glyph database of Malayalam
A wiki based glyph database representing all known letters, signs and symbols used Malayalam. Rachana font set (RA1-6.ttf available at Varamozhi font repository could be the starting point.
Wiktionary
Add words to wiktionary, siting the location where the word is found. Thus we will get the real set of words used in Malayalam. Malayalam defintely not a superset of Samskritham.
Tools
OCR
Text reader
Speech recognizer
Spell Checker
Grammar Checker
Fix Malayalam bugs
padma
pango
firefox
Create Fonts
Please contact Kevin for more technical help
Font for small point sizes
You may need to omit not so frequent stacked conjuncts.
Font with smallest download size
For mobiles
Create a Mac font
Make font development independent of Unicode
Create a VOLT file which can do all the substitution and positioning. One can modify Anjali's Volt source. Fonts follow a naming convention for the glyphs. After font development, they can import this volt source and can get a Unicode complaint font!
The naming convension can be Mozhi itself. For below base forms, it can be <name of the letter>.s. For example, below base form of ന can be named 'na.s'. When there are multiple below base forms, eg: വ, we can use va.s, va.s1 etc. Here va.s is the common form in സ്വന്തം. The va.s1 is the form in താഴ്വാരം.
CLDR
Add data to cldr survey tool regarding Malayalee's formatting habbits.
New Characters
Find more unicode characters and submit proposals. Ex: Musical notations.
Promote
wikipedia
blogging
Free/Open Software
Software packages
Create CDs with all necessary software to configure Malayalam in a PC. It is best to have a single installation for all these below:
AnjaliOldLipi font
Rachana_w01
Varamozhi Editor - needs to install Matweb.ttf
Keyman - start this installation
Auto configure everything for the user.