IndicMashup1

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A 1-day Mashup for Fixing Indic issues

A one day session, say starting from 10am to 6pm (or running over).

Participation:
Anyone with sufficient Indic background and requisite skills to work on activities in agenda.

Venue: Red Hat India, Pune office.

Red Hat Software Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
6th Floor, East Wing,
Marisoft-III,
Marigold premises
Kalyani Nagar
Pune - 411 014
Tel : +91 20 4005 7300
Nearby Adlabs Gold in Kalyani Nagar.

Date&Time: 17th Feb 2008, 10am-5pm

Sponsorship: Venue & Food.

Logistics:

• Venue should have conf/lab like setup, accomodating 10-15ppl.
• Internet with wifi.
• Participants bring own laptops (2-3 machines for ones with no laptop).
• Participants can also join from remote, through IRC, voice chat.

Contents 1 BoF at Gnunify 2 Proposed agenda 3 Detailed Tasks 4 Participants

BoF at Gnunify

Saturday 9th Feb - 5:30-6:30 PM

Proposed agenda

• Discuss changes (new code points etc) in Unicode for Indic
• Discuss different rendering behaviour sought out for some new characters or fonts.
• Updating fonts to confirm to new unicode (ofcourse need to keep backward compatibility - with apps that may not use new standard.. so

old version of fonts used)

• Updating keymaps, input etc. to accomodate new characters..
• Fix for once for all the sorting issue which has been long pending
  • take this on per language basis with 1-2 person looking into each language and come up with the proper & acceptable sort order &

implement the same in glibc locale (& CLDR data).

• Discuss & plan further on the areas identified in Indic BoF at FOSS.IN IndicBoF_FOSS.IN

Detailed Tasks

Put here the tasks in detail that would be/have been completed at mashup.

Participants

• G Karunakar : Keymaps, Inputmethod, Sorting
• Runa B : Keymaps
• Rahul Bhalerao: Rendering, Input, Unicode, Fonts, Sorting
• Sayamindu Dasgupta: Rendering, Unicode, Fonts
• Ankit Patel: Rendering, Input, Fonts
• Ravi Pande: Fonts
• Shankar Prasad: Participant
• Sandeep Shedmake: Unicode, Fonts, Collation
• Pravin Satpute: Fonts, Unicode, Collation, Rendering, IME
• Ani Peter
• Krishna Babu: Participant
• Name, activity

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