[Indic-computing-users] Recent Meetings

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

Two recent meetings were held on the subject of Indic Computing.

1) On 28th May, 2003, a group of Indiccers met informally at Delhi at the
India Habitat Centre to discuss Indic Computing issues. As a result of this
meeting, we expect closer coordination on developing OTF fonts. Osama and
Sanjay of 4Cplus said that they would release OTF fonts under GPL within the
next two months and Niyam has agreed to help them. Vijay will send a
synopsis of this meeting across.

2) On 24th May, Prof. Jitendra Shah and I organized a meeting at Prof.
Shah's residence in Mumbai. The meet titled "The Future of Marathi in the
Information Age" attracted a very good response. Despite the short notice,
12 people from different disciplines (Marathi cultural organizations,
linguists, technologists, and free/open source software activists) attended
the meeting organized by Prof. Jitendra Shah and Venkatesh Hariharan. Prof.
Jitendra Shah's excellent contacts in the world of Marathi literature and
information technology were a priceless help in bringing this eclectic,
diverse bunch together. In addition the Shah family (Jitendra Shah, his wife
and two sons) were excellent hosts for the meeting which was held at their
residence. A big thanks is in order from the group to Mr. Shah and family
for the warm atmosphere in which the meeting was held.

The attendees at the meeting were:

Name & Affiliation

1) Ashok Datar, Granthali (A very well-known Marathi literary organization)
and Marathi Vidyapeeth
2) Deepak Pawar, Granthali
3) G Nagarjuna, Free Software Foundation
4) Shashank Ashtikar, Free Software Foundation
5) Veena Dixit, Project Linguist, Centre for Indian Language Technologies,
IIT-Bombay
6) Mandar Walawalkar, V-Soft, a language computing company based in Mumbai
and Delhi
7) Neeraj Gupta, V-Soft
8) Anil Shaligram, One Village, One Computer project, based in Maharashtra
9) Shivanand Nadkarni, Open Door Technologies
10) Jitendra Shah, Professor, VJTI
11) Prakash Advani, IndLinux.org
12) G Karunakar, IndLinux.org
13) Venkatesh Hariharan, IndLinux.org

I'll send more details of this meet later.

Regards,

Venky