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Techical Roadmap
Solve the pending technical issues over next 2-3 months 

Extending Inscript to cover Unicode ranges -  Oct'05 - C-DAC
Inscript was defined in early days of ISCII, with ISCII revised (ISCII-91) and Unicode coming in,
many characters defined in Unicode are not available on inscript keymap. this activity is to 
identify the characters to include and the keys to allot them to based on usage and frequency.
A log of missing characters is at InscriptBugs



Test Suite (Indic testing Framework), L10n using LTDP - Nov'05 - IndLinux
Indic testing framework outlined at IndicTesting
Linux Desktop testing project

Indic IMs (SCIM/IIIMF) - all by Oct'05
Input methods defined in IIIMF need to be tested thoroughly and enhanced.
Inscript,phonetic & other forms of input could be added to SCIM.
IndicInputMethods

Font bugs fixing - Amish, Monica  Nov'05
Gargi, Padma etc were fixed

Firefox & OpenOffice Indic builds - Ankur,IndLinux,Utkarsh,Punlinux by Nov'05


Localized GIS toolkit  - Indictrans



Spellchecker using Affix rules  - Ankur/Swecha by Nov'05



Translation Framework  - HBCSE/Khader/IndLinux  Dec'05
Worked upon as [1]

Broad roadmap
Action items proposed during discussions - which would be taken up over next few months. Each needs to be elaborated upon.

  • GNOWARE CD for office/school - HBCSE
  • Translation Portal - HBCSE
  • ICU / Eclipse - Abhijit
  • Description of Indic glyphs - Abhijit
  • Maintainence of Unicode CLDR - Abhijit
  • Howto for new language l10n - Abhijit
  • Basic Tools & Distro - Gora
  • Massive Usage - Jitendra Shah
  • Translation tools/automation - Khader/TCS
  • Doc standards & lobbying - FSF
  • Video Howto - Navin
  • Mentoring Community - Satish
  • Accounting Software - Nirav
  • OpenOffice Hindi - Ravishankar
  • Nepali fonts in all distros - Subir
  • OpenOffice Urdu , C-DAC - Mar'06
  • Multibyte Unicode based TTF fonts - Janabharati
  • Marathi OpenOffice - Janabharati/C-DAC
  • GRIND release - Sayamindu
  • Defining Use cases - Abhijit/Satish
  • WSFII - HBCSE /end'06

Future events

  • Next Devel meet (1/2 days) at FOSS.in - 29th Nov - 2nd Dec.
  • Next Indic workshop proposed to be held in March'06
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