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

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

Hi,

This is really a great step. My wholehearted support is with you all. 

Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja

Subject:        	[Indic-computing-standards] 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
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