Dear Tulasi, May be I could explain this somewhat. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization, The purpose of the Unicode Consortium is to produce standards for use by the ICT industry (where a very large number of individual companies clearly operate for profit). These standards cover character encoding and related subjects (e.g., ordering), done in co-operation with the subcommittee SC2 of the Joint Technical Committee 1 of the international formal standardization organizations ISO and IEC. The Unicode Consortium has also assumed the responsibility to develop and maintain the Common Locale Data Repository, which is used by a very large number of IT companies to localize their products.
There are several levels of members in the Unicode Consortium (which is reflected in the size of the membership fees). In addition to the corporate and organization members there are also individual members, of which I am one. Sincerely, Erkki I. Kolehmainen Tilkankatu 12 A 3, FI-00300 Helsinki, Finland Puh. (09) 4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Tel. +358 9 4368 2643, +358 400 825 943 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tulasi Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 10:33 PM To: Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Unicode Inc Thanks Mark for posting the links! My posting was based on http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html where in the bottom it said Unicode Inc. Looks like the elected members from consortium http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html forms Unicode Inc. Am I correct? In this link http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html it looks like less than 100 members in the consortium. How many members currently do you have who can vote to elect? Link http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html says Unicode consortium is non-profit organization. Recently I have purchased Windows 7 from Microsoft Corporation This product has Unicode fonts for number of language. But Microsoft Corporation is for profit. So it looks like Unicode Inc is for profit through its elected officials, but Unicode consortium is non-profit. Am I correct? I still do not understand: What is the role of this Director exactly? Respectfully, Tulasi From: Mark Davis <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:14:00 -0700 Subject: Re: Unicode Inc To: Tulasi <[email protected]> Cc: Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> See http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html. The consortium is constituted according to its bylaws: http://unicode.org/consortium/unicode-bylaws.html Roughly, it is constituted by its membership: http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html, which elects the directors yearly. The officers report to the directors, and are responsible for the running of the consortium. The technical work is delegated to the technical committees, which operate according to their procedures. The background of the officers and directors can be found on http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html. For a historical view, see http://www.unicode.org/history/boardmembers.html. Mark On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 17:32, Tulasi <[email protected]> wrote: I am new to this group. I am browsing http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html It looks like Unicode Inc is formed by Google, Inc. Microsoft Corporation IBM Corporation Apple Have I understood correct? Also it looks like Unicode Incorporate has one director to represent whole Asia, while Asia has more languages than any continent. What is the role of this Director exactly? Respectfully, Tulasi
