Thanks Srikant for sharing this, Nice step :) I'd love to know more and help If I can. Srikant request Srujanika to subscribe this mailing list.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Srikant Kedia <[email protected]>wrote: > > FYI > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Srujanika <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM > Subject: Fw: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia. > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], Jitendra Dash < > [email protected]>, Puspashree <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > > ** > Hello, > > FUEL - frequently used entries for localization - is basically a set of > terms used for computer work in any particular language. Efforts are on > among the open source workers to standardise these terms to maintain > uniformity. Results of the work in Odia, carried out mostly at RedHat, is > attached. That for Hindi is available at > https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/wiki/fuel-hindi . > > As far as Odia is concerned different vendors/developers have come out > with their versions of many products. Two major examples are Microsoft's > Windows 7 / Office 2010 and Fedora Linux. Modular's Ankur Indian Laguage > Office Suite also has tried to present Odia interface for all the > applications included. However, the variations are wide and Odia interfaces > are far from being smooth. All these are available with us if anyone wants > to take a look. We are preparing some notes on these. Microsoft's style > guide is at > > http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ori-ind-styleguide&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2FA%2FE%2FF%2FAEF09212-6102-484C-8F7D-39FFFCAACC97%2Fori-ind-StyleGuide.pdf&ei=g-0BT8GEH4nWrQeXvv3-Dw&usg=AFQjCNGvy_hMpuxYcBtUjXc_cQZIYn99QQ&cad=rja > . > > > Personally, I have always felt the need for a dedicated group taking up > this work on a long term and continuous basis. But we have not been able to > devote that time and energy in this direction. Even now we are very short > of manpower and are rather pressed with our work on the digitization of > Odia periodicals. We hope to be in a better position after April 2012. In > the meantime we can use any help available in this direction. > > Manoj, whose mail is appended below, has been planning for a workshop on > the subject as detailed below. We feel that it should be taken up seriously > as a starting point for a concerted effort over a period of at least one > year, rather than achieving definite results during the workshop. We should > also look at some general problems faced in the Odia language computing > activity. Some of these are outlined in the old notes attached with this > mail. Windows issues will also have to be addressed in some way. > > Please consider the matter and air your views as to the best way to go > about this. Also please try to bring this to the notice of others. If > everyone feels that we should get together on January 26-27, we can make > arrangements here at Srujanika or any other suitable place. > > We will make a wider announcement after the event is fixed up. > > Looking forward to hearing from all soon. > > With best wishes, > > Nikhil > > Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik, > "Srujanika", 101 Saraswati Kunja, > Near Jagamara Bazar, PO: Khandagiri, > Bhubaneswar 751030 > Orissa > > Tel: 0674-2350664 / 2350640 > > (Srujanika - A Society for Research and Innovation in Science, Education > and Development) > > PS: Jitendra babu - can we rope in Prafulla babu (Tripathy) for this? > Would you please give a thought to the lucidity of the terms? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Manoj Kumar Giri <[email protected]> > *To:* Srujanika <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, January 02, 2012 2:56 PM > *Subject:* Re: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia. > > Dear Nikhil Sir, > Happy New Year to you and Srujanika team. > > Sending you the fuel Odia .pdf file in attachment. And i'm preparing the > FUEL Style Guide for Odia. I'll send that to you for verification after > completing. > I already spoke to Gora bhai and Arun (working in Microsoft, Hyderabad) > about the event. They will come to bbsr for two days to attend this event. > Only we need one or two Linguist people during the evaluation process. > Please let me know if you have any contacts. > We are planning to have it on January last week, probably on 26 th & 27 th. > Please let me know if it is possible for you on 26 th & 27th. Else let us > know your convenient time. > Also i'm relying on you about the venue where we can sit together for the > discussion. > > Thanks & Regards! > Manoj > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Srikant Kedia > Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community > <http://or.wikipedia.org> > Mail ID - [email protected] > Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki > Tweet @OdiaWiki > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-OR mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or > > -- * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * _______________________________________________ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki *
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