Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Re: [Indlinux-gujarati] My introduction and Debian-IN

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Hi Vijay and -devel,

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> Nepal & Bangladesh). The regional groups would be taking up resource 
> building in each language  and form teams of volunteers to take up
> these 
> issues through workshops, meetings, training sessions, conferences
> etc.

The idea of formation of regional groups did come up in the first
workshop.  However, what didn't get clarified was how the efforts 
of these groups would tie into the Indic-Computing project.

If there is a concrete plan to feed the knowledge being gathered
into the Handbook or TechMap, so that this knowledge becomes
widely available to the Indic developer community, then I can 
see great value in these efforts.

If instead, the aim is to conduct workshops and meets for a 
select few, and not to add to the body of Indic knowledge 
in the public domain, then these groups would be similar to the 
other technical cliques you see dotting the Indic landscape.

Take the example of the font workshop that was held in March: the
knowledge shared there isn't in the Handbook because nobody
contributed it.  So, if a developer missed attending this
workshop; tough luck :(.

We should be thinking of educating our 3 million plus developers; 
not just 30-odd attendees per workshop.  One of the focii of the
Indic-Computing project is to help the Indic developer community
bootstrap itself[1].  

If this is not a core goal of the 'consortium' you are talking 
about, could you please explain the value that the consortium adds
to the community?  Perhaps I'm missing something ...

Footnotes:

[1] The "Design Axes" article talks of the issues faced by 
    developers attempting to deploy indic solutions in the field
    today:
    
    Title: Design Axes for the Indian Language Computing Market
    URL:   http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/designaxes/

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Joseph Koshy, FreeBSD Developer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/
Founder/Manager/Programmer/Peon, The Indic-Computing Project
                                 http://indic-computing.sf.net

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