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Indic BoF Notes
Goals
@ To prioritise the tasks for the next 1 year based upon distros
@ To ensure that Applications work well with Indian contents - Type, View and Print
Distros:
@ Fedora
@ Debian
@ Ubuntu
Tasks:
@ Minimum set of packages for each distro
@ For each distro the applications are to be packaged correctly
@ Documentation
@ Testing
@ Content (corpora) and tools to handle them
@ compliance with standards
Minimum set of packages for each distro
- One font for each language (proper license)
- Application independent Keymaps - One phonetic, one inscript (language maps discretion to include more than 2)
- locale and sorting
- Editor + Spellchecker
- Word processor
- Browser - Firefox
- E-mail client - Thunderbird
- Conversion tool
- Extras: DTP, TTS, STT, OCR
Documentation
- OS installation
- What indic packages
- System / Application config
- Basic Desktop User Guide
- FAQs for troubleshooting
- Content Guide
- Unresolved issue list
Testing
- Rendering
- Printing
- Localisation
- Input Methods
- Sorting and locale
Standards Compliance
- Unicode (UTF-8)
- Linux Standard Base for Indic
Localisation:
- Upstream compliance
- Translation consistency
- Translation Management Framework
- Database
- Online
- Management
- Database
- Minimum set of applications localised
Contents and Tools
- Corpora
- Tools to handle Indic content
Task Members
1. Minimal Set and packaging for the three distros [including testing]
@ Gora
@ Praveen A
@ Rahul Bhalerao
2. Documentation
@ Runa
@ Vivek Cherian
@ Anivar
@ Ramkrishna
@ Gora
3. Localisation (Tools for Testing)
@ Ramkrishna
@ Karunakar
@ Manas
4. Standards
@ Prasad
@ Anivar Aravind
@ Rahul Bhalerao
To Do
16/12/07
- Write up on the wiki
- Announce on the mailing list
- Call for volunteers
9/01/07
- Task list and timeline [projects.indlinux.net]
