On 6 August 2012 16:27, Rajesh Ranjan
<rajesh672@gmail.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
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Regards,
Rajesh Ranjan
www.rajeshranjan.in
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