Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!

[Shrinath S. <shr...@ko...>]

Hello Ajay,

Vartaalap  "also" supports chat.

A closer examination will reveal that it supports
collaborative workspaces by providing white boards
and more...

Of course Manoranjan at NCST banglore will fill you in on the
finer details.

I had a similar view of vartaalap till these good people showed me
the actual demo.

Your ideas on NCST joining in on adding Indic support to linux are
very valid and in line with NCST's efforts thus far. Take a look at
these at  http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix and at
http://www.ncb.ernet.in/bharateeyaoo

Many people are already aware of this and have reviewed and
provided constuctive criticism and useful feedback.

All your views are welcome too.

Warm regards,
shrinath




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ajay Guleria" <aja...@ya...>
To: "Manoranjan Kumar Singh" <ma...@nc...>;
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!


> For a minute, I was taken away by your description and thought you
guys were
> re-inventing the wheel. In essence, "Vartalaap" is a Unicode port of a
chat
> app, right?
>
> PS: I am just trying to get the right description and not trying to
mull down
> on NCST contributions. I think you guys are doing great.
>
> How about getting enrolled in Unicode.org or pango.org? And helping
get a
> Indian version of Linux out of door, unless you guys are sponsored by
> Microsoft. You guys developed a flavor of X that supported Hindi and
still
> didn't push to get it adopted at Xfree86.org or X.org. At the best,
you can
> help trolltech.com roll out a version of Qt that supports Indic
scripts.
>
> Not only will it be good for NCST to get international recognition,
believe me
> that most of developers in Linux world will consider you guys Indic
gurus.
>
> Give it a thought and take care,
>
> -Ajay.
>