Hi,

We  are happy to announce the Regional Language group for Indic
Languages as per the Regional Group plan mentioned here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Regional_Groups

This would be a group for coordinating Openoffice related activities
of many Indian languages. As per the internal discussion we had among
the interested people from various languages, we are listing the
following objectives

1. Language support for Openoffice- a) Resolving Rendering issues
b)Lingua Components-spellcheckers, hyphenation dictionaries c)
Language
specific bugs . Forming a group of people from all languages,
identifying the issues, testing each version in its beta stage,
filing/tracking bugs. And preparing testcases on the above items.

2. User Support part, As the adoption of Open Document format
increasing day by day, we are going to have a big user base. Having a
support mailing list/forum/wiki for per language would be a nice idea
.Thereby we can get inputs for #1 too.

3. Migration : There are lot of documents in proprietory formats,
proprietary/legacy font encoded documents. we have seen many questions
on migrating these documents to ODF in various FSUGs. Developing
extensions/converters , helping the users to resolve the issues in
migration.. etc can be another area that the group can help

4. Contribution: Many Indic related features/issues need contribution
from developers who know the language. Group can identify those areas
and can help the international developer community by linking local
contributors to them.

The group can act as point of contact to reach up the language
communities and gettting the issues/contributions back to Openoffice
projects

I will soon create a wiki page for the group and will be putting
details of the activities.


Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal
http://santhoshtr.livejournal.com

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