[Indic-computing-users] Re: Indic-computing-users digest, Vol 1 #19 - 14 msgs

[jitendra <jit...@vs...>]

If palce or logistics is a problem, let me know.
Will IIT do.
I could talk to some one. Should I.
Jitendra


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>    1. Possible seminar on OpenType font (Keyur Shroff)
>    2. Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Tapan S. Parikh)
>    3. Re: Possible seminar on OpenType font (Rajkumar S)
>    4. Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible
>        seminar on OpenType font (ve...@vs...)
>    5. Re: Possible seminar on OpenType font (Hema A Murthy)
>    6. Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Keyur Shroff)
>    7. Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Guntupalli Karunakar)
>    8. Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Tapan S. Parikh)
>    9. Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Rajkumar S)
>   10. Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Keyur Shroff)
>   11. [OffTopic] Tiny server (Tapan S. Parikh)
>   12. Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Keyur Shroff)
>   13. Re: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font (Dr. U.B. Pavanaja)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Cc: ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> Hi,
>
> This is to inform all of you that Ms Apurva Joshi, daughter of Prof. R.K.
> Joshi is in India right now. Apurva Joshi is working as the OpenType
> Program Manager at Microsoft. She is responsible for all things OpenType,
> including the OpenType Specification.
>
> Here I see an opprotunity to invite her to deliver a seminar on OpenType
> font, future of the OpenType technology, and possible extension of OpenType
> font format. She is in Mumbai till 14th October. If other friends are ready
> then we can arrange a seminar here at NCST, Juhu.
>
> Looking forward for your comments/suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Keyur
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:46:09 +0530
> From: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...>
> To: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> Cc: ind...@li..., ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> I would definitely like to attend such a seminar.  Anything I can do to
> help set up also.  Only problem is that I am leaving for Tamil Nadu Oct
> 7th or 8th I think...
>
> -- Tapan
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:30 -0700 (PDT)
> Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is to inform all of you that Ms Apurva Joshi, daughter of Prof.
> > R.K. Joshi is in India right now. Apurva Joshi is working as the
> > OpenType Program Manager at Microsoft. She is responsible for all
> > things OpenType, including the OpenType Specification.
> >
> > Here I see an opprotunity to invite her to deliver a seminar on
> > OpenType font, future of the OpenType technology, and possible
> > extension of OpenType font format. She is in Mumbai till 14th October.
> > If other friends are ready then we can arrange a seminar here at NCST,
> > Juhu.
> >
> > Looking forward for your comments/suggestions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keyur
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:19:48 +0530 (IST)
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Possible seminar on OpenType font
> From: "Rajkumar S" <ra...@li...>
> To: <key...@ya...>
> Cc: <ind...@li...>, <ind...@li...>
>
> Keyur Shroff said:
>
> > Here I see an opprotunity to invite her to deliver a seminar on
> > OpenType font, future of the OpenType technology, and possible
> > extension of OpenType font format. She is in Mumbai till 14th October.
> > If other friends are ready then we can arrange a seminar here at NCST,
> > Juhu.
>
> This is cool. How about some thing in B'lore. That is a more central part
> of India, and easy for those from south.
>
> raj
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> Message: 4
> From: ve...@vs...
> To: ta...@ya...
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible
>     seminar on OpenType font
> Cc: ind...@li...,
>         ind...@li...
> Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2002 12:45:43 +0530 (IST)
>
> Dear Keyur,
>
> Absolutely YES! OTF was identified as one of the higest priorities at the Indic Computing workshop and there were a number of questions related to OTF that came up during the discussions. This would be a good opportunity to get them clarified. Please let us know the date for the event.
>
> Also, can someone who knows OTF take notes of the workshop and share them with the rest of the group so that others are also in the loop? This may also be a useful contribution to the Indic Computing handbook.
>
> Venky
> =====
>
> ta...@ya... wrote
>
> I would definitely like to attend such a seminar.  Anything I can do to
> help set up also.  Only problem is that I am leaving for Tamil Nadu Oct
> 7th or 8th I think...
>
> -- Tapan
>
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:30 -0700 (PDT)
> Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is to inform all of you that Ms Apurva Joshi, daughter of Prof.
> > R.K. Joshi is in India right now. Apurva Joshi is working as the
> > OpenType Program Manager at Microsoft. She is responsible for all
> > things OpenType, including the OpenType Specification.
> >
> > Here I see an opprotunity to invite her to deliver a seminar on
> > OpenType font, future of the OpenType technology, and possible
> > extension of OpenType font format. She is in Mumbai till 14th October.
> > If other friends are ready then we can arrange a seminar here at NCST,
> > Juhu.
> >
> > Looking forward for your comments/suggestions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keyur
> >
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:58:47 +0530 (IST)
> From: Hema A Murthy <he...@la...>
> To: Rajkumar S <ra...@li...>
> cc: key...@ya..., <ind...@li...>,
>    <ind...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rajkumar S wrote:
>
> > Keyur Shroff said:
> >
> > > Here I see an opprotunity to invite her to deliver a seminar on
> > > OpenType font, future of the OpenType technology, and possible
> > > extension of OpenType font format. She is in Mumbai till 14th October.
> > > If other friends are ready then we can arrange a seminar here at NCST,
> > > Juhu.
> >
> > This is cool. How about some thing in B'lore. That is a more central part
> > of India, and easy for those from south.
>
> Surely, prefer Bangalore - Centre of the South of Vindhyas!:-)
> -hema
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> To: Hema A Murthy <he...@la...>, Rajkumar S <ra...@li...>
> Cc: ind...@li...,
>   ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> --- Hema A Murthy <he...@la...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rajkumar S wrote:
> >
> > > This is cool. How about some thing in B'lore. That is a more central
> > part
> > > of India, and easy for those from south.
> >
> > Surely, prefer Bangalore - Centre of the South of Vindhyas!:-)
>
> It will be difficult for Apurva. She is here in Mumbai waiting for
> extension of her visa. She may not prefer place other than Mumbai. She is
> coming to NCST on Friday, 4th October. I'll try to arrange the seminar on
> the same day if it is feasible. Otherwise we have to organize it on some
> other day which is convenient to her.
>
> - Keyur
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:28:12 +0530
> From: Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@fr...>
> To: ve...@vs...
> Cc: ta...@ya..., ind...@li..., ind...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
> Reply-To: kar...@fr...
> Organization: Netcore Solutions
>
> On Tue,  1 Oct 2002 12:45:43 +0530 (IST)
> ve...@vs... wrote:
>
> > Dear Keyur,
> >
> > Absolutely YES! OTF was identified as one of the higest priorities
> > at the Indic Computing workshop and there were a number of questions
> > related to OTF that came up during the discussions. This would be a
> > good opportunity to get them clarified. Please let us know the date
> > for the event.
> >
> > Also, can someone who knows OTF take notes of the workshop and share
> > them with the rest of the group so that others are also in the loop?
> > This may also be a useful contribution to the Indic Computing
> > handbook.
> >
>  We could possibly do two things:
>    Those who cannot make it to the seminar post their queries
> beforehand, so they can be taken up in seminar,
>  or If possible have an IRC chat session .
>    the Qs & As will become a FAQ on OTF for the handbook.
>  I can take this up for Devanagari, Telugu, Gurmukhi.
>
> Regards,
> Karunakar
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:15:10 +0530
> From: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...>
> To: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> Cc: ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> I vote for the 4th!!
>
> -- Tapan
>
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 00:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
> Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Hema A Murthy <he...@la...> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Rajkumar S wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is cool. How about some thing in B'lore. That is a more
> > > > central
> > > part
> > > > of India, and easy for those from south.
> > >
> > > Surely, prefer Bangalore - Centre of the South of Vindhyas!:-)
> >
> > It will be difficult for Apurva. She is here in Mumbai waiting for
> > extension of her visa. She may not prefer place other than Mumbai. She
> > is coming to NCST on Friday, 4th October. I'll try to arrange the
> > seminar on the same day if it is feasible. Otherwise we have to
> > organize it on some other day which is convenient to her.
> >
> > - Keyur
> >
> >
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> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:03:21 +0530 (IST)
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
> From: "Rajkumar S" <ra...@li...>
> To: <kar...@fr...>
> Cc: <ind...@li...>, <ind...@li...>
>
> Guntupalli Karunakar said:
>
> > We could possibly do two things:
> >   Those who cannot make it to the seminar post their queries
> > beforehand, so they can be taken up in seminar,
> > or If possible have an IRC chat session .
> >   the Qs & As will become a FAQ on OTF for the handbook.
> > I can take this up for Devanagari, Telugu, Gurmukhi.
>
> An IRC session will be help full. Otherwise we can go in for the QA mode.
>
> raj
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 04:10:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
> To: Rajkumar S <ra...@li...>, kar...@fr...
> Cc: ind...@li...,
>   ind...@li...
>
> > > We could possibly do two things:
> > >   Those who cannot make it to the seminar post their queries
> > > beforehand, so they can be taken up in seminar,
> > > or If possible have an IRC chat session .
> > >   the Qs & As will become a FAQ on OTF for the handbook.
> > > I can take this up for Devanagari, Telugu, Gurmukhi.
> >
> >
> > An IRC session will be help full. Otherwise we can go in for the QA mode.
>
> Today I'll try to contact Apurva and decide upon the day convenient to her.
> We are thinking to shoot this seminar on video so that other people who
> miss it can watch it later on.
>
> - Keyur
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:04:28 +0530
> From: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] [OffTopic] Tiny server
>
> This would be an interesting system for lots of applications....
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:56:21 -0700
> From: Edward Cherlin <ch...@pa...>
> To: si...@ya...
> Subject: [simpdev] Tiny server
>
> Here's a server with a hard drive and good connectivity near the price
> range of the Simputer. Somebody should start a business integrating
> the two.
>
> http://openbrick.org/
>
> OpenBrick is a small, light and silent open platform optimized for
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>
> http://www.national.com/appinfo/solutions/0,2062,396,00.html
>
> I'm always pleased when a piece of my work turns up in something like
> this.
> ====================
> http://www.openbrick.org/Members/jp/7in1U
>
> OpenChassis, allows to host 7 OpenBricks in 1U rack. This should
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> OK, specs.
> X86 compatible processor
> USB
> TV out
> Sound in and out
> VGA connector
> keyboard
> mouse
> Ethernet
> compact flash
> Hard drive
>
> Runs Linux. Mandrake sells one with Mandrake Linux server preinstalled
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> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:48:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Cc: ind...@li...
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just talked to Apurva on phone. She is keen to meet other people,
> talk about OpenType font, and get feedback from them. But as she doesn't
> have access to resources to give seminar, she wants it like informal talk
> and open discussion. People can ask her questions/queries about OpenType
> font and related things.
>
> We can arrange this meeting sometime in next week because it is not
> possible for me to arrange it in this week. She is coming to NCST on
> Friday. I request you all to prepare a list of questions which we can ask
> her. Please send all your questions by Friday morning. I'll discuss more
> with her on Friday and make schedule for this informal meeting.
>
> Regards,
> Keyur
>
> __________________________________________________
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> Message: 13
> From: "Dr. U.B. Pavanaja" <pav...@vi...>
> To: ind...@li...
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:34:01 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Possible seminar on OpenType font
>
> The resources she will need are-
> A PC/laptop with
> -WinXP or Win2K
> -OfficeXP (Optional)
> -VOLT
> -FontLab/FCP/pfaEdit/Fontographer or any other font glyph
> creation/editing tool **
> -FPEditor
> -VTT (optional)
>
> Most of these tools are available on microsoft.com/typography
> site and are free downloads. NCST should have them already. I
> have them, except the tool marked with ** (I do have pfaEdit
> and FCP(eval)). I can burn a CD and courier, if necessary.
>
> Rgds,
> Pavanaja
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just talked to Apurva on phone. She is keen to meet other
> > people, talk about OpenType font, and get feedback from them. But as
> > she doesn't have access to resources to give seminar, she wants it
> > like informal talk and open discussion. People can ask her
> > questions/queries about OpenType font and related things.
> >
> > We can arrange this meeting sometime in next week because it is not
> > possible for me to arrange it in this week. She is coming to NCST on
> > Friday. I request you all to prepare a list of questions which we can
> > ask her. Please send all your questions by Friday morning. I'll
> > discuss more with her on Friday and make schedule for this informal
> > meeting.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keyur
> >
> >
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