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

Rajesh Ranjan rajesh672 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 08:02:12 UTC 2012


Hi,

Thanks a lot Nitin, Pravin, Chandan!

Nitin jee, I appreciate your efforts and am having same emotion when
language issues come. Popularizing inscript and using it as a standard is
important for the success. And as far as I know lot of efforts are being
started.

For Marathi, when we will organize some events, hopefully in near future,
we will write about the same on this mailing list as well. Please register
for the event. Thanks for your interest to participate in the such
initiative.

-- 
Regards,
Rajesh
<http://www.rajeshranjan.in/>

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Nitin Nimkar <nvncom at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am glad to know about the initiative. Thank you Mr. Rajesh Ranjan for
> keeping informed about these developments.  I would like to participate in
> future such initiatives.
>
> To inform you about myself, I am a trustee of an NGO active in the field
> of primary education.  I have been helping them to use IT technology in
> their educational initiatives. The NGO's website is bi lingual in Marathi
> and English. We are running an online forum for teachers, particularly
> primary teachers from all over Maharashtra. The Forum is run in Marathi. We
> also offer e-learning to the teacher students all in Marathi. All URLs are
> at the bottom after my signature.
>
> I think in all this process, I have gained some insight in the whole
> process of using IT in Indian languages.
>
> I think the most important and critical skill needed at user end is not of
> IT but is of Typing in Indian languages. Here I would like to point out
> that all of us who are involved in IT and localization are bi lingual in
> English and Marathi or any other Indian language, and therefore are
> comfortable using English QWERTY Keyboard for both English and Indian
> languages. Therefore we think that a transliteration method is just the
> best way of inputting info in Indian languages. However, my experience in
> running above mentioned forum and e learning initiative tells me that
> INSCRIPT is the best method of inputting content in Indian Languages. That
> is the most comfortable solution for those who only speak Indian Language.
> I think this is the single most reason why all efforts to update content in
> Indian Languages fail.
>
> When we are talking about Unicode, standardisation, etc.  we should also
> give equal importance to the standardization of INSCRIPT Typing across the
> state/Nation. Here, I would like to point out that QWERTY keyboard for
> English has a history of 135 years. An attempt by DOVARK key board which
> comes in all Windows edition could not replace QWERTY for English. However,
> this isn't the case for Indian Languages. We have 8 keyboards in Marathi,
> and those are creating havoc.
>
> I am aware about the initiative by C-Dac of offering various keyboard
> drivers in one application for those who resist to change. This is
> something similar  like Indic IME. This could be a temporarily solution,
> but I think we should make determined efforts to standardise INSCRIPT
> keyboard, for which a driver comes along with all flavours of operating
> systems.
>
> We should embark upon a state wide and a Nation Wide Training and
> Certification program  in INSCRIPT for Government Employees, Teachers,
> professors in Universities, students and for all those who
> are involved with Indian Languages.  Let us ignore the present employees
> who are resisting to change from earlier keyboards. But let us not leave
> this as a loose end.  My experience with the students and teachers is very
> much encouraging.  The students, teachers and those who do not have a
> baggage of non INSRIPT keyboard learn the basic typing skills in just 15 to
> 20 days with a practice of 1 hour daily. So it is a question of only 15 to
> 20 hours for a learner.
>
> I have taken initiative at personal level to teach INSCRIPT typing to all
> those who are involved with our websites, e learning initiatives. However,
> if we can reach to other sections of the society with the help of C-Dac or
> Red Hat and Government, we can change the situation. I think I will be of
> some help with this initiative.
>
> On  a lighter note, I would like to inform you all that, I read yesterday
> in a news paper that Kabir Khan, director in Bollywood, told media that
> Katrina Kaif is the only actress who needs Hindi script in
> Devanagari, because she has learned Hindi that way. But to get those script
> typed in Devanagri is a hell of a job for Bollywood, because there are not
> many who can type in Devanagari efficiently. Can we change this situation?
>
> Nitin Nimkar
>
> http://www.quest.org.in
> http://forum.quest.org.in
> http://elearning.quest.org.in
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Rajesh Ranjan <rajesh672 at gmail.com>
> *To:* fuel-discuss at lists.fedorahosted.org
> *Sent:* Monday, August 6, 2012 4:27 PM
>
> *Subject:* FUEL Becomes Integral Part of e-Gov Standard vide CoE Marathi
>
> 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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