Tamil Open-Source Landscape - Opportunities and Challenges

TL;DR

This paper explores the vibrant Tamil open-source community, highlighting its strengths, challenges, and opportunities for growth through institutional support and community engagement.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the Tamil open-source ecosystem and identifies key opportunities and challenges for its development.

Findings

The Tamil open-source community is diverse and active.

Institutional support is needed for sustainable growth.

There are significant opportunities for Tamil language technology advancement.

Abstract

We report in this paper, Tamil open-source software community is a vibrant place with software developers, font designers, translators, voice-over artists, and general user testers, who come together for love of their language, and promotion of critical thinking, and modern language usage in Tamil. We identify a need for institutional support at various stages from grooming software developers in Tamil, to marketing platform for Tamil software. There is bright future for tamil software if we will meet challenges it brings with it.