Design Axes for Indian Language Computing
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4 Road map

	Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
--Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Building compute infrastructure in indian languages requires work on many fronts:

First, computing devices that have low power requirements and that can be powered in innovative ways are needed.
Better input methods for Indian scripts, preferably methods that work well with small devices are needed.
An indian language developer community needs to be bootstrapped. Technical information on Indian languages and scripts relevant to software developers needs to be captured, codified and made widely available. Forums where technical issues about Indian language computing are discussed need to be created.
The standards that cover Indian languages and scripts need to be improved and the use of these standards in software development needs to be encouraged.

4.1 The role of the Indic-Computing project

The Indic-Computing project is an open-source project attempting to address some of these issues.

We are attempting to address the needs of developers by creating a freely distributable Handbook that covers the issues in writing Indian language software. The Handbook will also contain tutorials and introductions to the core technologies in use in the field.
We intend to develop and make available under a liberal open-source license libraries and utilities that would be of use to developers implementing Indian language software.
We provide forums where issues related to indian language computing can be discussed.
Finally, our code, documentation and project infrastructure is open-source. Other linguistic groups in the world desiring to bootstrap their compute infrastructure may be able to save effort by reusing our tools, documentation and code.

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