Re: [Indic-computing-users] Working Groups

[Venky H. <ve...@vs...>]

My comments below:

> * Languages Working Group - Organize different linguistic resource
> groups to take a lead in localisation, translation, standards, etc.
> Would also be working very closely on linguistic handbook.
> Members: Karunakar, Nagarjuna, Ravi Kant, KGP, Durgesh Rao, Vijay, Koshy
> (for handbook publishing)

Malayalam, Bengali, Tamil and Hindi groups were represented at the workshop
but we need to cast our net wider and identify who (if at all) is working on
languages like Gujarati, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Kannada, Telugu and other
languages. This needs a concerted effort to reach out to lingusitic groups.
Perhaps Fred, Karunakar and I could work on this? Karunakar, did you prepare
a list in the past with who's working on what language?

> * OpenType Font Development Group - Work towards the development of
> freely available, quality Indic Language Open Type Fonts in all
> languages.
> Members: Karunakar, KGP, Nagarjuna, Arun M, Rajkumar, Dr. Pavanaja

> * Users Working Group - Document the needs of the various User
> Communities.  Present clear specifications, bugs and requirements to the
> rest of the indic-computing community.
> Members: Sunil, Vijay, Ashish, Ravi Kant

If any of this stuff needs editing or rewriting, let me know. After all, I
am a journalist!

> * Linguistics Group - Look at various deeper issues that arise out of
> the Languages Working Group, to identify better and more appropriate
> translations, encodings, representations etc.
> Members: Kalika (Kalika - We need more linguists!  Where does one find
> them?)

Kalika, to add to Tapan's suggestion, perhaps you could write to the Central
Language Research Institute at Mysore and find out if they are interested?
Would they be able to help us with all the Indian languages? This could be
followed up by myself or one of the organizers meeting them the next time we
are in Bangalore.

Venky