FUEL Becomes Integral Part of e-Gov Standard vide CoE Marathi

Rajesh Ranjan rajesh672 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 10:57:07 UTC 2012


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
www.rajeshranjan.in
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