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Status Report: January 2002--December 2002

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January 2002 -- December 2002

Status of the Indic-Computing Project
31 December 2002
-- Joseph Koshy <jkoshy(@)users.sourceforge.net>

Executive Summary

The project's progress in the past year has been mixed. While most of our software sub-projects are still in the planning and early execution stages, the response of the indian-language computing community to the first Indic-Computing workshop has been extremely heartening. We present the status of the Indic-Computing project and present some of the next steps planned.

Retrospective

The lessons from the past year seem to be:

We hope to address some of these concerns in the coming year by the following means:

Events

Infrastructure

The Indic-Computing Handbook

While we did manage to locate a number of resources on indian languages, the task of incorporating the knowledge from these has not progressed very far. The Handbook has however undergone some degree of expansion and restructuring based on the feedback from its early reviewers.

We hope that the coming year (2003) will be a more fruitful one for the Handbook.

Software Projects

Most of the software development projects planned have remained in the planning stage.

The current projects in-progress are:

Indic OS (a.k.a the Bootable CD)

Developing infrastructure to enable implementors to build custom OS images that support indian language ``out of the box''.

Status: requirements specification is done. Design is in progress.

Translation Manager

A cross-platform tool to help documentation translators manage translations to indian languages lacking character set standards or having flawed character set definitions.

Status: requirements have been specified. Design is in progress. This project has graph-theoretical problems at its heart so getting help from academic institutions would be easy (we hope).

Technology Map

The design and implementation of a survey mechanism for indian language computing technologies.

Status: requirements specification has been completed. Prototypes are in progress.

Documentation Tool-chain

Design and implement a documentation processing tool-chain capable of handling indian scripts lacking the backing of character set standards.

Status: partially implemented. This tool-chain is in use today for generating the Indic-Computing Handbook. Print side support (PDF generation) needs to be strengthened.

The following projects were canceled:

A Portable Input Method Framework for Indian Languages
The volunteer who signed up for this work expressed his inability to find time for the work.

People and Roles

Tapan S. Parikh <tap2k(@)yahoo.com> has graciously consented to be be a co-administrator of the project on SourceForge.

About these project status reports

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