[Indic-computing-users] Model to build up on...

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

What is the kind of organisation we have in mind while building up
IndicComputing? Any names that could help us build a mental picture of
what we would like to be like?

Could the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative be a
suitable model? 

The thing with Indic Computing is that it perhaps needs to be loose
enough, so that anyone doing promising work in the field could be made to
feel part of the network (that is the only way it could grow and remain
relevant). 

It perhaps needs to be decentralised, to work effectively, and to avoid
giving the impression that this is *yet another* factional group, trying
to work out its own solutions, out-of-sync from what everyone else is
doing.

On the other hand, it should very clearly be a consortium. Some of the
consortia that run particular aspects of the Internet seem to be an
interesting model. 

If one understood right, the main problem is that nobody will support
(financially) an entity that doesn't have any legal standing, or is not
incorporated/acccuntable at least in some way. Does anyone have ideas of
how this need can be taken care of, without breaking the commonness of
purpose that comes from being open-minded and all-inclusive? FN

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