5 Acknowledgments

The Indic-Computing Project uses the facilities offered by SourceForge. We are indebted to them for their support.

This document arose out of the discussions, over many cups of coffee, that I had with friends and colleagues interested in the field of Indian language computing. I would like to thank the following people for sharing their thoughts and for helping increase the information content of this article:

• Abraham Mathen brought up the issue of Social Structure, something particularly relevant to the Indian context.

• Brij Sethi, for highlighting the importance of Value Addition for the end-user.

• K. Mamata Krishna of PRADAN facilitated a number of trips to rural India and introduced me to the issues underlying the communities I visited.

• Niyam Bhushan shed light on some of the issues in designing fonts for Indian scripts and gracefully shared several useful suggestions about the article's content.

• Shekhar Borgaonkar of HP Labs India provided input that went into the section on Power.

• Sudha Varadarajan of Skava Inc. clarified some of the technical aspects of mobile phones.

I would also like to thank Alok Kumar, K. Nagarajan, Sudha K. V. and Tapan Parikh, for having spent time reviewing the early drafts of this document. SourceForge community member brewthatistrue suggested many improvements to the article's language.

The responsibility for errors and omissions, of course, falls on me.