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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
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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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