[Indic-computing-users] Online meet summary

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

Hi all,
 the report & logs of yesterdays IRC meet is available at
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IrcMeet_17June05

Summary of meet

Objective of meet was to discuss current activities & what more needs
to be done. Team updates were presented.
    * Team updates from Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Mayalayam, Kannada,
Gujarati, Bengali, Oriya, Hindi
    * An outline doc for making a status report will be posted (20th
June) - All teams could fill in details to bring out a more detailed
status report.
    * Next meet fixed for 24th June - 3pm - 6pm - Agenda - consortium
& tdil draft proposals + status report - detailed agenda will come on
list 

Team updates:
Punjabi by Amanpreet Singh Alam

Gnome 2.10|2.12, KDE, XFCE is fully supported
Punjabi Firefox may release
OpenOffice 2.0, Punjabi is included
Input method and Keyboard layout for Punjabi
An org named Punjabi Open Source Lab formed
plans to collect funds to do further work.

Malayalam by Mahesh T Pai

Not much progress
divergence even among free fonts, released fonts having ambiguous
implementation of the chillus & other conjuncts problem lies with
P249 (IIRC) of the unicode standards, the ones about which characters
should form chillus, that is interpreted and implemented differently
fix the standards, fix fonts, rendering engines etc.

Kannada by Pramod

pretty dormant for about a year after Openoffice 1.1.3. translation.
xfce4 is done, kde is started
font design copyright issues raised with Malige, Kedage - so these
fonts not being used. Sampige (which was released by IISc RC) has
'all rights reserved' in font fields though released under GPL, IISc
been requested to change it, but no response. Some plans to do a font
from scratch. A lot of work has been done on Kannada wikipedia
( http://kn.wikipedia.org ) Some organizations and schools interested
in using Kannada localization work.
http://kannada.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Work on a
live CD like thing, but more for distributing the localization stuff.

Tamil by R Hariram Aatreya

GNOME supports Tamil now, Thanks to Jayaradha & RedHat. Firefox also
in Tamil. CD with OOo & Mozilla in Tamil was released by CDAC recently
FC3 has typewriter layout for Tamil 
www.zhakanini.org

Telugu by Sunil Mohan

Swecha team working on telugu localization
GNOME localization for several applications are done, PO files to be
checked into Gnome CVS. A new font Srujana being developed, will be
released soon Apple keyboard layout required by DTP operators is done.
Inscript, RTS (phonetic), Apple, WX layouts for IIIMF available, SCIM
to be worked on. Convertors for major font families in Telugu
publishing industry have been written - include Eenadu encoding, Anu
fonts and incompletely for sreelipi fonts Testing Telugu support in
OO.org 2.0 betas and Qt 4.0 RC. http://telugu.sarovar.org/ ispell
word list being built, even though a morphological analyser could be
better approach. Group at TCS working on telugu TTS, Web input
methods and online translation tool

Oriya by Gora Mohanty

60% of GNOME and some part of XFCE translated.
Rendering is still a minor problem with QT (5-10 conjuncts incorrect) 
Rendering with Pango is a moderate problem (30-40 conjuncts bad) 
OpenOffice rendering is terrible. Hardly anything comes out right.
An exhaustive list of Oriya conjuncts, approved by local linguists
available. Inscript, ITRANS keymaps available for yudit and for xkb
Issues could be resolved in [ICU |
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp] Need to
get technical team to fix things.

Bangla by Sayamindu/Sankarshan/Soumyadip

OO.o UI translations (1500 strings) done
XFCE 4.2.x has been translated
Firefox xpi available for download
GRIND test2 to be built

Hindi by Karunakar

Translation review workshop held recently 1st - 5th may - parts of
GNOME  & KDE were reviewed & along with another revision of glossary
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/HindiReviewWorkshop work on
for Hindi support in aspell & for openoffice spell checker working on
making a translation database for hindi.

Gujarati by Ankit Patel and Kartik Mistry

Translations:
Gnome/XFCE - 100%, KDE - Next Target
Fedora - 77%
Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla - 100%
OpenOffice 2.0 (w/o help) - 100%
CMS - Drupal (WIP) and Xoops, Plan for Plone
Ankit is working to include Gujarati in mozilla officialy while
Kartik is doing for OpenOffice 2.0 OpenOffice 1.9.104 is now in
Gujarati (Testing In Progress) Sites: http://www.utkarsh.org and
http://indianoss.sf.net/ 

Marathi

Not represented in meet. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MarathiOpenSource ,
http://www.indictrans.org

Assamese

Not represented in meet
http://luit.sourceforge.net