[Fsf-friends] Indic localisers' meet, Sept 18-19
Frederick Noronha (FN)
fred@bytesforall.org
Wed Sep 15 02:55:16 IST 2004
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Indic Localizers Meet
Date 18th-19th September, 2004
Venue - Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, TIFR,
Mankhurd, Mumbai, directions
http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/Objects/contact
Planning for Indic L10n teams meet.
Online meet on next Monday, 13th September, from 3pm - 9pm IST ,
at #indlinux on irc.freenode.net .
Agenda: Discuss Agenda points and schedule
IRC Logs (RAW)
* IndicMeetLog <http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicMeetLog>
- 3pm-9pm (16th August)
Minutes of meetings
* IndicOnlineMeetMinutes
<http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicOnlineMeetMinutes> (
16th August )
Meeting Agenda
Get all Indic L10n teams to meet and
* discuss current status
* share individual roadmaps
* discuss interaction and collaboration protocols with international
bodies/maintainers
* share experiences
* chalk out a common roadmap based on consensus decision
* work on l10n guide, status document
* discuss and put in place Usability Metrics for L10n Projects
* discuss the methodology of creating Test Cases for L10n Usability
* discuss vertical domains where L10n customisation could be coming
in handy
* discuss and brainstorm and implementation aspects of L10n Projects
* identify areas where implementation could be immediately visible
* discuss and arrive at a consensus on formation of a common
platform (see next bullet)
* get onto forming a legal body , aka Indic computing consortium
(something like that) along with charter and mandate for the same
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Meeting Schedule
17th September
Evening - Outstation participants arrive in Mumbai - Dinner
Day 1 - 18th September
* 8AM - 9 AM - Breakfast
Session I
* 9 AM - 9:30 AM - Workshop starts, introductions, Initial address
and objectives of workshop.
*
9:30 AM - 11:15 AM - Presentation / Talk by Language teams ( 15
mins each )
o Teams to present: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Marathi, Malayalam
* 11:15 - 11:30 - Tea/Coffee Break
*
11:30 - 1 PM - Team presentations/Talks continue
o Teams to present: Punjabi, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, CDAC
/ TDIL
* 1 PM - 2 PM - Lunch
Session II
* 2 PM - 5 PM*
*
2PM - 2:45 PM Pending Issues
o Locale definitions, Collation
o Text rendering issues/bugs
o Indic Unicode Issues
o Input Methods
o Fonts
*
2:45pm - 3:30pm Prospective Issues
o Spellchecker
o Dictionary / Lexicon
o Translation management tools
* 3:30 - 3:45 - Tea/Coffee Break
*
3:45 - 4:15pm Testing
o Why and what need testing
o Indic test framework
*
4:15 - 5:00pm Usability
o Usability studies
o Workshops
* 5:00 - 5:30 - Open discussion
* 5:30 break for the day
* 8:00 pm - Dinner
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Day 2 - 19th September
* 8 AM - 9 AM - Breakfast
Session III
*
9 AM - 9:30 AM - Documentation
o Indic Handbook docs - Language/Script info, Font docs
o Howtos - for different tasks
*
9:30 - 10:15 AM - Packaging and Distribution Issues
o Packaging Indic stuff
o Building an Indic distro - GRIND
o Live CDs
*
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Deployment
o Having Indic widely available and used.
o Activities to increase awareness and usage.
o Discussion
* 11:00 - 11:15 AM - Tea/Coffee Break
*
11:15 - 1 PM - Theme talks (15 mins each)
o participants please propose if you want to talk on
something, and which has not been covered in prev sessions
* 1 PM - 2 PM - Lunch
Session IV
* 2 PM - 3 PM - Future Roadmap for GNULinux Localization
* Task list / TODO list
* Timelines for above
*
3 PM - 3:30 PM - Consortium Meeting
o The need and objectives of forming a consortium
* 3:30 - 3:45 - Tea/Coffee Break
* 3:45 - 4:45 - Consortium Discussion
* 4:45 - 5:00 PM - Meet closing
* Participants depart
* 8:00 PM - Dinner
20th Morning - participants depart.
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Participants (confirmed)
Language wise list
* Bengali - Ankur group - Sayamindu Dasgupta, Sankarshan
Mukhopadhyay/Runa Bhattacharjee, Indranil Das Gupta
* Gujarati - Utkarsh - Nirav Mehta, Ankur Patel
* Hindi - IndLinux <http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndLinux>
- G Karunakar, Ravishankar Shrivastava
* Kannada - Pramod Raghavendra, Hari Prasad Nadig
* Marathi - Indictrans - Jitendra Shah, Swapnil Hajare
* Malayalam - SMC group - Mahesh T Pai , Arun M
* Punjabi - Punlinux, Amampreet Singh Alam
* Oriya - oriya.sarovar.org - Gora Mohanty
* Telugu - ?
* Tamil - Tamillinux team - R Hariram Aatreya, N Jayaradha
* Urdu - Ravikant Sharma
Others
* Nagarjuna G - FSF India, TIFR
* Prakash Advani - Onward Novell India
* Venky Hariharan - Red Hat India
* Abhijit Dutta - IBM India
* Dr Om Vikas - TDIL, MIT, GOI
* Hema Murthy - ?
<http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/TeNet?action=create>_TeNet_,
IIT Chennai
* Alka Irani - CDAC
* M Sasikumar - CDAC
* Michael Sauntak - Burmese Localization
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