Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a free software community and non profit charitable society working on

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and other Indic languages. It is the biggest language computing developer community in India. This group has been involved in the Malayalam translation of

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, and

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projects like

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. They developed Indic Keyboard which is a multi-language keyboard for

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. They have created several Malayalam fonts. The community also actively contributes towards Malayalam Wikipedia. They supported

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and were a part of

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in the years 2007, 2013, and 2014. Along with ICFOSS and The Frequently Used Entries for Localization (FUEL) Project, SMC was involved in creating a standard set of Malayalam words that developers can use while creating interfaces for mobile apps. Since August 2016, SMC community is an

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At-Large Structure.

References

External links

Official website

SMC fonts
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