Foradian
Encyclopedia
Foradian Technologies is a privately held web application
company based in Mangalore
, Karnataka, India. The technical office of the firm is situated at Kasaragod, Kerala, India. Foradian is known for the open source
school erp project Fedena
, popularizing Tintumon through providing an online identity and releasing rupee font for Indian rupee sign
which was reported in major national media and newspapers
firm by a group of young people in India from the states of Kerala
and Karnataka
. Design wing was separately formed as Brand Mango and focused operations at Bangalore
.
is an open source
school management software based on Ruby on Rails
framework. It was selected for a presentation at International Rubyconf held at Bangalore on March 2010. Fedena is also presented in the Debconf
2010. Latest version of Fedena – 2.1 was released on 16 August 2011. Fedena is also available in Spanish other than English.
Foradian Technologies provide Fedena related services, Fedena – PRO.
Project Sampoorna, which powers more than 13000 +schools in Kerala, is based on Fedena and developed by Foradian Technologies.
was approved, Foradian technologies published a free font at their blog. The font and the blog became a viral phenomenon with 1 million visits in just two days of the launch of the font. The font also got criticisms for mapping the rupee symbol to the grave accent
key of the keyboard and releasing a font much ahead of approval of unicode
. The Rupee sign may be made visible on those word-processors also where the font is not installed in the system, by choosing to embed the font in the document in file saving options. However, embedding the Foradian Rupee Font renders the document read-only i.e., the document cannot be edited on a system where the font is not installed.
Web application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
company based in Mangalore
Mangalore
Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...
, Karnataka, India. The technical office of the firm is situated at Kasaragod, Kerala, India. Foradian is known for the open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
school erp project Fedena
Fedena
Fedena is an open source school management software developed on Ruby on Rails framework. It is a web 2.0 web application being developed by Foradian Technologies...
, popularizing Tintumon through providing an online identity and releasing rupee font for Indian rupee sign
Indian rupee sign
The Indian rupee sign is the currency sign used for the Indian rupee, the official currency of India. It is relatively new, the design only having been presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its selection through an open competition among Indian residents...
which was reported in major national media and newspapers
History
Foradian Technologies was started as a web designWeb design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
firm by a group of young people in India from the states of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
and Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
. Design wing was separately formed as Brand Mango and focused operations at Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
.
Services
- Web application developmentWeb application developmentWeb application development is the process and practice of developing web applications.-Risk:Just as with a traditional desktop application, web applications have varying levels of risk. A personal home page is much less risky than, for example, a stock trading web site. For some projects security,...
- Website Development & Design
- Logo design
- Brand managementBrand managementBrand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand.The discipline of brand management was started at Procter & Gamble as a result of a famous memo by Neil H...
Fedena
FedenaFedena
Fedena is an open source school management software developed on Ruby on Rails framework. It is a web 2.0 web application being developed by Foradian Technologies...
is an open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
school management software based on Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
framework. It was selected for a presentation at International Rubyconf held at Bangalore on March 2010. Fedena is also presented in the Debconf
Debconf
DebConf is the yearly conference where Debian developers meet to discuss issues around the further development of the system.Besides the scheduled workshops and talks, Debian developers take the opportunity to hack on the Debian system in a more informal setting...
2010. Latest version of Fedena – 2.1 was released on 16 August 2011. Fedena is also available in Spanish other than English.
Foradian Technologies provide Fedena related services, Fedena – PRO.
Project Sampoorna, which powers more than 13000 +schools in Kerala, is based on Fedena and developed by Foradian Technologies.
Rupee Font
As soon as the new Indian Rupee signIndian rupee sign
The Indian rupee sign is the currency sign used for the Indian rupee, the official currency of India. It is relatively new, the design only having been presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its selection through an open competition among Indian residents...
was approved, Foradian technologies published a free font at their blog. The font and the blog became a viral phenomenon with 1 million visits in just two days of the launch of the font. The font also got criticisms for mapping the rupee symbol to the grave accent
Grave accent
The grave accent is a diacritical mark used in written Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Dutch, French, Greek , Italian, Mohawk, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Welsh, Romansh, and other languages.-Greek:The grave accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient...
key of the keyboard and releasing a font much ahead of approval of unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
. The Rupee sign may be made visible on those word-processors also where the font is not installed in the system, by choosing to embed the font in the document in file saving options. However, embedding the Foradian Rupee Font renders the document read-only i.e., the document cannot be edited on a system where the font is not installed.