[Indic-computing-users] Consortium formation meet minutes

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

Hi, 
  Today we had the online meet on consortium formation.
 People present for meet were  myself, Nagarjuna, Tapan Parikh & Venky
joining in later.

 A raw log of it is available at 
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/23NovMeet

 It started with myself presenting following points.
 a) have one voice which can represent l10n community (volunteer
groups)
 b) have formal org. which can help the groups, acting as a channel
point for getting, managing, & distributing funds to do IC activity
 c) the body gives a platform from where interactions with other
groups can happen.
 d) working groups of body can oversee different indic computing
development activities
 e) first it starts small , with all 1l0n groups, nd then expands to
include other groups/bodies.

 shortly after it was felt that we better have a roadmap or activity
plan for next 6-12 months, on what we aim to do with the consortium.
While there will be long term goals for the consortium, a detailed
short term (1yr) plan is needed to keep the pace of work going and not
loose focus in organizational issues, which could happen if roadmap is
put as a post consortium formation activity. 
 So to evolve the roadmap a questionaire was prepared which would be
circulated among Indic meet particpants and Indlinux-group and
Indic-computing lists, for comments.

 To begin with the consortium will be formed to promote Indic
computing activitys based on FOSS, and would involve all the FOSS
localization groups and other groups working in this area. To start
with initial member list could be September Indic meet participants -
 - All language teams ( Indlinux, Ankur, Rebati, Utkarsh, Indictrans,
Punlinux, Tamillinux, Kannada, Malayalam & Telugu teams, new teams
join as they form) , FSF-India , IIT-Chennai, Indic-computing.sf.net,
Sarai.
 - Organizatons - CDAC, TDIL, Red Hat India, Onward Novell
 It could later expand to include other like minded interested groups.


Questionaire
 1) Why do u feel there is need for cosortium? 
 2) What you/your group expects from the consortium (resources, funds,
networking etc)
 3) Who should/could be members of this consortium
 4) Most imp: What is your groups roadmap for next 6-12 months, in
Indic computing area, list what u plan to do roughly, seperately or as
a part of the consortium.
 5) In what ways you/ur group would like to be involved (eg. areas
like - development, admin, advocacy, PR, etc)

Feedback on these questions will form basis of activities and roadmap
of consortium. 
Feedback could either be posted back on list, or sent to  <feedback AT
indlinux.org> 
This will be then collated and further discussed to finalise a
roadmap. Suggestions, criticism welcome, onlist!.

Regards,
Karunakar