Re: [Indic-computing-users] Incorporating Indic Computing

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

I would like the inputs of the members of this list on the following
thoughts:

For a long while, some of us (including myself, of course) have felt the
need for an organization that can take the mission of Indian language
computing forward. When Prakash Advani and I started IndLinux in 2000, we
hoped that a lot of volunteers would step forward and help us localize
Linux, but two years later we find that whatever we have done, it is because
we have one person (Karunakar) working full-time on localization.

I would dearly love to see tons and tons of Indian language software out in
the market. I would dearly love to see my fellow Indians compute in Indian
languages with the same fleuncy that we, in the English-speaking world do.
But, my personal opinion (and correct me if I am wrong) is that this is not
going to happen through the volunteer-driven route. Maybe our approach to
attracting volunteers has been wrong and it would be good to know how this
can be set right. Setting up an organization to take Indian language
computing forward is a more expensive route all other options should be
explored before we go down this road.

Venky




> Maybe the incorporation thing(apart from the sf.net) should have been
discussed
> on the list a bit more? For example, why staffing?
> Alok
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