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The Indic-Computing project is a volunteer driven project, striving to improve the state of Indian-language computing, with special emphasis on open-source operating systems. Participation in the project is open to all, with the only criteria for joining being merit.
Every project has an underlying philosophy thats guides its operations. Here are some of our values:
We endeavour to write high-quality software and documentation. In the event of a conflict between quality and schedules, quality wins (most of the time, at least).
Our work is intended to be re-useable by other linguistic groups interested in bootstrapping their language infrastructure. To this end we will provide code and documentation in a form that makes our work easy to duplicate in other contexts.
As wide as possible---for example, we endeavour to keep our code portable so that our work can be used in many contexts. We strive to be as interoperable and standards-compliant as possible for the same reason.
We choose technologies and implementation strategies that preserve the longevity of our work. For example, we may in some cases, prefer mature, but likely to be long-lived technologies over newer, but uncertain alternatives.
Transparency is an important value to us. In addition to our finished work, the workings of the project are also open to all. For example, our project forums and discussion lists are open to all who wish to constructively participate.
It is important to us that we involve the indian-language community in our work. We provide many ways for people to give us feedback on our work and to participate in the project, ranging from submitting a patch or bug-report, to becoming a volunteer developer.
As of 2003, our main goals are:
Our projects page has more information about our projects, past and present. The project status page lists ways you can track our work, and contains links to previous status reports issued by the project.
People who have contributed to the project in any significant way are listed in our additional contributors page.
Staff roles are listed in the who is responsible for what page.
The list of people with commit rights to our source tree can be found at the Indic-Computing developers page.
A few of the significant milestones in this project's life.
The first Indic-Computing workshop is held in Bangalore.
The first meeting at Hewlett Packard ISO Bangalore, in which it is decided that one of the needs of the hour is an open forum where the gaps in indian-language computing could be discussed and addressed.
The Indic-Computing Project is started on SourceForge.Net.
The original concept for the logo was contributed by Niyam Bhushan. Niyam's original design was tweaked and re-specified in Postscript by Joseph Koshy (thus even our logo is "open-source"). A description of the logo is available.
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