Thread: [Indic-computing-standards] Important: Forming Organization Committee

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Dear Everyone,

As you may know, we at indic-computing have been thinking for some time to
organize a consensus and education-building workshop for Indic-Language
computing.  I am attaching the draft proposal for the workshop, which
should give you some more backround as to what we are trying to achieve and
how we have set out to do so.  We have managed to secure some support, so
we are now concretely moving forward in our planning.

In the draft proposal you will see roughly the focus, time slot and
structure we had envisioned for each session, although obviously that could
be flexible if you wanted to do things a different way.  Comments on the
agenda as a whole are welcome and encouraged.  Please read the agenda for
more info.  We are thinking roughly of August or September to hold the
workshop, exact time and location to be decided.  Nagarjuna of FSF has had
some interesting ideas about that.

Currently we are trying to build the initial technical organizing committee
for the workshop - which will be working to set the technical agenda and
structure of the event.  We would like to invite you all to be a part of
this process.

Our current idea is to divide the agenda into eight sections, and let one
person be in charge of each section.  That person would be in charge of
setting the agenda for that section (according to the time constraints),
collate a list of main participants and invitees, and drive the whole
process forward.  Here is the list we are currently thinking of.

 (Pracitioners) Vijay Pratap Singh
 (Encodings) Joseph Koshy - HP-ISO
 (Fonts) Keyur Schroff - NCST
 (Keyboard Layouts) Karunakar - IndLinux
 (Linguistic Approaches) Dr. Pavanaja - KGP
 (Tools) Ashish Kotamkar - Mithi
 (Organization) Tapan Parikh - MLA
 (Future Directions) Pushpak Bhattacharyya - IIT-Mumbai

Senior Leaders:
     Raveesh Gupta - Microsoft India
     Pat Hall - SCALLA
     Ken Keniston - MIT

This doesnt mean that any one else is excluded from this process. It just
means for this type of process each person needs to be given some
resonsibility to make sure it gets carried out correctly.  In fact I trust
everyone on this list, so I hope everyone takes part in the discussion, and
contributes their ideas and observations with the people above and everyone
else on the list.

I hope you would be interested in working with us on this, as we all know
it is an important step for the future of indic language computing, to be
doing things in this kind of open, community-based, progressive,
outward-looking manner.

Comments on the organization process itself are also invited.  What do you
guys think, is this a good way to move forward?

Please let me know how excited you are about this, and how willing you are
to chip in, especially those people I have listed as being section leaders.
If possible, give me some feedback on this within a few days.

Thanks,
Tapan Parikh

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