Hello Santhosh,

Le Mon, 25 May 2009 23:20:15 +0530,
Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> 
> 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.


I'm glad you are taking up the job for this group. In addition to the
wiki, the Indic mailing list has just been created:
http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList

Please feel free to subscribe (Santtosh, you are the owner).

Good luck,

Charles.


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