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

[Raveesh G. <rav...@mi...>]

Thanks Tapan,

This is a great start!

I look forward to being an enthusiastic participant and member in all
your discussions.

Thanks & regards,

Raveesh Gupta

Indian languages Support Program
Microsoft India
www.microsoft.com/india/office/indic/

-----Original Message-----
From: Tapan S. Parikh [mailto:ta...@ya...]=20
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:07 PM
To: ind...@li...; Kenneth Keniston;
Pushpak Bhattacharyya; Vijay-Sristi; Pat Hall; Raveesh Gupta
Subject: Important: Forming Organization Committee



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