Technology Working Group Notice:
Find attached a draft of the kinds of information we should collate for
the technology map. Here is how I broke it up:
First into PLATFORMS - so a prospective user / developer can go to his
platform right away and see the status of indianisation of libraries and
applications for that platform. This way he wil know right away whether
or not to use a platform, as a user, or what to work on, as a developer.
For each PLATFORM, we would describe the OS-level support as well as
APPLICATION-level support for various key applications. Each such
description would include info about FONTS supported, INPUT METHODS, UI
Localisation, PRINTING, etc. This description should in almost all
cases be info about the current stable release of the application from
the main Working Tree.
Additionally we can have info about various local and otherwise PROJECTS
that are working on improving either OS-level and APP-level indic
support.
For Linux we will have to do most of this searching and documenting
ourselves I think. For Windows we should be able to get help from our
friends at MS and other companies to chip in some of their docs.
Next, FONTS. Pretty self-explanatory
Next, LIBRARIES and APIs. Again, self-explanatory.
Finally, MISCELLANEOUS. For all the stuff we couldnt file above.
Anyway, looking forward to feedback on this. We should finalize the
format and then find ways to populate this information as rigorously and
as usefully as possible.
Ok - Rajkumar, Arun, Karunakar, Keyur, Koshy, etc.?
- Tapan Parikh
- Technology Working Group
- Indic-Computing Project
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