Khmer Software Initiative

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The Open Institute is a local non-governmental and not-for-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate knowledge sharing and communication for social development in Cambodia. It presently runs six programs: KhmerOS, Open Schools, Open Learning, Women, Publications and Lexicography.

The main goal of the Open Learning program is to empower educational institutions on the design, implement and manage distance education programs through e-learning by:

As you can see at http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/2004, using text-align:justify in the style sheet will cause improperly rendering of Khmer scripts (also most Indian scripts) in Firefox. Now this problem has been fixed in Firefox 3.0 Beta. Actually, KhmerOS did nothing regarding to the fix :) Problem in previous version of Firefox:

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/Sneak_Peeks_at_openSUSE_10_3_1_CD_Installation_Multimedia_support'; openSUSE 10.3 has seen a lot of changes with the media selection; the most prominent one being the new 1-CD installation for KDE, and 1-CD installation for GNOME. Multimedia support in the distribution has also been improved, with MP3 support out-of-the-box for Banshee and Amarok. Today we bring you a special double-bill covering these two stories.

On 17th June 2006, KhmerOS will make a small event called Installation Party at its office from 8:00AM to 17:00PM. Everyone are welcome to this party together with their computer to get Khmer software installed. Not only about installing software, we would also like to invite you to visit our place. It has been a very long time that we contact each other only via the internet. We have no chance to see each other. You'll enjoy some light food and drink (not beer, of cause) together with some souvenir.

May 31, 2006: The KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. In this release, you'll find more application translated in Khmer such as Kopete, the instant messenger and chatting program, and Kmail, the email program. Of cause, the existing translation were also be improved. Read here the announcement from KDE project.

On 15th May 2006, there will be an event at BS Department Store, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is called Internet Party. It's mostly related to Internet knowledge and experience sharing. KhmerOS will be there as well. We think that it is a good opportunity to bring Khmer Unicode to the people and to share our experience with it. Moyura, Mekhala and Chatzilla are what we'll show during the event. Sending email, chatting using Khmer unicode and browsing webpage or weblog that is written in Khmer Unicode are our main topics.

We are pleased to announce the release of our new converter for Khmer Legacy Fonts to Unicode. The new converter provides you the ability to convert the Open Office document file or plain text file which is typed in ABC, Limon or Baidok font. For linux user or its source code interested user, please download from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/khmer/legacy2unicode-1.0.zip?download For Windows user, please download the converter installer from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/khmer/legacy2unicode.exe?download

The latest version of a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations is released. It is available in 69 languages including Khmer. For Khmer, you'll get almost every program translated that are needed for your daily life such as internet/email, multimedia and entertainment, graphic design... KDE also has its own office application that's Koffice but since OpenOffice is good enough to feed your office and administration works, we did not translate Koffice. More information can be found at http://kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.2.php.