Developer call April 2, 2021

Name, What is your favourite cool drink this summer?

  • Akshay, Cold water with Tang
  • Subin, pacha
  • Ron tender coconut
  • Sabu, Sarbath
  • Kailash, tea

Notes

Dictmaker is beta and in production

  • Needs an admin interphase
  • Scripting and publishing is possible
  • But even a minor change is very complicated
  • All we need is CRUD admin panel
  • Ideas with mentors - #2 by knadh
  • Chakra UI Admin panel in Vue is preferred
  • One admin approve/reject form is good enough to begin with
  • Authentication strategy: Basic Auth is good enough

Dictmaker database has a column to keep track of source - sabdatharavali, crowd-source

Olam.in

  • The search is running in a 2009 engine (php)
  • The same concepts are ported to dictmaker
  • Search is much better
  • But it is not being published because of the lack of admin panel
  • Sabdatharavali xml is downloaded, and ready for publish

TR Pillai english - malayalam dictionary

  • Alar is there authoritatively there for Kannada
  • Olam is well used in the English-Malayalam section but that is not scholarly quality
  • Anivar has mentioned an out of copyright dictionray of TR Pillai, which if digitized is a 2000 pages of English-Malayalam dictionary
  • Physical copy
  • Talking with Mahesh Mangalatt

Current Olam dictionary sources:
1) Kailash about 5k
2) Crowd-sourced about ten thousands
3) From an unknown forum dump

Indic.app has a new design. Needs HTML+CSS +JS : https://www.figma.com/file/GPU2zLKjaaqOaJZVstqnFb/SMC-IndicKeyboard-UI?node-id=0%3A3

Flutter app of Olam from Ajin not yet pushed to f-droid. Much better and therefore can try putting on f-droid.

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