[Indic-computing-standards] Re: [Indic-computing-users] Indic Computing Charter

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

MAIT consortium includes several players who betrayed this country for
not working for localization standards so far.  They have also
betrayed the industry.  They have used up tax payers money for more
than a decade and gave us what?  

[BTW: If you read the charter of Nasscom, easy to access since they
are sitting next door to your office, you will find nothing
objectionable.  What are they doing and what they have achieved is
important.  (Why Nasscomm doesn't take up the free software in their
agenda? Is their anything in their charter that says against free
software?  We will find nothing?)]

I do agree with you that we need to include everyone when we talk of
standards.  My point is if they have achieved what was written in
their objectives, then what is the need for indic-computing
initiative, largely coming from volunteers like us.  The need was
presicely because they failed in doing what they intended to do.  Their
commercial interests override the public good.  Even govt which
figures in the list could not play the buffer role is clear.  

That is the reason I feel, that we can continue to include
them in our efforts, but they being here should not dilute or
compromise our principles, such as working for a common and open
standards and making the basic tools, such as fonts and ecoding
methods, available as free software.  

If all that is written below is true, then we dont need to do
anything.

Nagarjuna

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:34:34PM +0530, ve...@vs... wrote:
> http://www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/102110901.asp
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> I was going through the Dataquest article and came across the box item on the MAIT Consortium on Innovation and Language Technology (COIL Tech). The charter seems similar (or at least has significant overlaps) with what we are doing. 
> 
> This brings me to the next point: we are currently formalizing Indic Computing as a non-profit organization and it would be good to hear this group's opinions on what the charter of Indic Computing should be. Any thoughts on this and on how we can collaborate with MAIT?
> 
> Venky
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> The MAIT Consortium on Innovation and Language Technology (COIL Tech) 
> Founded in: 2001 (September) 
> Active members: Wipro Infotech, Wipro e-peripherals, TVS Electronics, Lipi Data Systems, Modular Infotech, NIC, C-DAC, NC, Apple Soft, ER&DCI Cyberscope Multimedia, Summit IT, Web Dunia, Blue Cell Technologies, Kannada Ganaka parishat, Anu Graphic Systems, Seacom Solutions ETH research Labs, Softview Computers, Microsoft, IBM, HP Labs.
> 
> Core Function: Co-ordinating various activities with IT Industry players and the TDIL (Technology development in Indian Languages)Department of the Ministry of Communications and IT.
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> The consortium is working with various state governments to make standards compulsory for software development companies in each state. "The Ministry of IT will eventually announce Unicode as the standard to be used in India and this decision will percolate to the state governments," explains MAIT executive director Vinnie Mehta.
> 
> CoilTech eventually hopes to graduate to an organization that will incubate young companies and provide IT tools to the developer community free of charge and encourage them to build Indian language software.
> 
> "The consortium also expects to be able to export multi-lingual software technologies to other third world countries within the next three to five years," says Mehta. CoilTech has developed standards for font layouts in Devnagari, Gujarati, Malayalam and Punjabi.
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