Hi
Delighted to hear this update. Best wishes to Marathi FUEL team. A major
push will be needed to update the current localization with the
standardized terminology.
Regards
Arjuna
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshka...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to share with you that Government of Maharashtra has decided
> to go with FUEL [1] as one of the linguistic standard(s) for e-Governance.
> On Saturday August 4, 2012; CoE (Center of Excellence) Marathi [2] workshop
> was organized by C-DAC GIST at Mantralaya, Mumbai, Maharashtra State. Mr.
> Rajesh Aggarwal, Principal Secretary Department of IT, Govt. of Maharashtra
> and Mr. Mahesh Kulkarni, Programme Co-ordinator, GIST, C-DAC along with
> representatives from various IT companies were present at the workshop.
> Agenda for the workshop is here [3].
>
> Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal discussed in detail about the significance of
> standardization and importance of all government website(s) to be in native
> (as primary language) and English (as secondary language). He emphasized
> that linguistic content of public use need to be licensed under Copyleft
> [4].
>
> Mr Mahesh Kulkarni elaborated on "Standards - importance, issues,
> challenges & solution". During his presentation, he focused on Unicode,
> INSCRIPT, Open Font format, searching, sorting, database, issues in Marathi
> localization, FUEL, CLDR, Script Grammar, etc. Speaking about FUEL, he
> highlighted FUEL terminology, Style Guide, Assessment Method(s), FUEL
> project road-map, etc.The FUEL terminology for Marathi is available for
> download [5] on CoE website.
>
> Later a team of language experts discussed about FUEL-mobile and FUEL-web
> terminology (Marathi). Team decided to meet at the earliest and finalize
> them. Towards the end of the workshop, the outcome of discussion with
> language experts regarding FUEL mobile and web module(s) was delivered to
> the audience by Mr. Chandrakant D (GIST, C-DAC) and myself.
>
> The workshop concluded with Mr Rajesh Aggarwal and Mr Mahesh Kulkarni
> providing an action plan to make the Centre of Excellence for Marathi
> successful.
>
> Centre of Excellence for Marathi is setup to boost e-governance initiative
> of govt of Maharashtra[6].
>
> I am thankful to Mr Rajesh Aggarwal and Mr Mahesh Kulkarni for supporting
> FUEL. Thanks a lot to Prof Anil Gore, Chandrakant D, Sandeep Shedmake,
> Damodar Magdum along with representatives of mahaonline and all the
> language group presents there to make the language related discussion
> vibrant.
>
> [1]. http://www.fuelproject.org ; https://fedorahosted.org/fuel
> [2].
> http://coe.maharashtra.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47
> [3].
> https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/raw-attachment/wiki/fuel-marathi/coe-workshop-agenda-marathi.pdf
> [4]. www.gnu.org/copyleft
> [5].
> http://coe.maharashtra.gov.in/material/FrequentlyusedentriesforLocalization.pdf
> [6]. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/article3639047.ece
>
>
> regards,
> --------------
> Rajesh Ranjan
> Kramashah <http://kramashah.blogspot.com/>
>
>
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