Kannada Software Development "KSD" meeting On FRIDAY July 16th, 2004 at 11:00 AM

Dear Kannadigas ,

This is to inform you about the scheduled meeting in connection with Kannada Software Development "KSD" in Karnataka State and by GoK.

The KSD meeting is at:

DATE: Friday July 16th, 2004
Place: VIJAYANAGARA CLUB, BANGALORE.
Address: 1st Main, 4th Cross, RPC Layout, Bangalore 40.,
TIME: 11:00 AM.
Phone: 23300675, 23386056


As all of you know that there was a meeting on KSD conveyed by C I I L and held at Mysore on May 25th, 2004. Some of you attended the meeting and some of you missed the meeting.

The minutes of MAY 25th, 2004 meeting has been circulated by Dr. Halemane to all of you. If any of you does not have it, you can get a copy of that now in this meeting.

Some of the major items covered on May 25th, 2004 meeting in Mysore are and it is explained in detail in the Minutes of the meeting.

1. Users Interface across Existing Softwares.
2. Original Commands to be continued to be used.
3. Introduce Unicode.
4. Create filters to import files.
5. Key board Drivers.
6. Create custom key board layout.
7. Open Source Initiative and The significance of Open Source is,


After the MAY 25th meeting there are other developments that have taken place in the area of KANNADA SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT "KSD".

EKAVI TRUST a Not-for-Profit organization got involved in this KSD to investigate and started writing letters to people involved with KGP, BARAHA and GoK. EKAVI has obtained several letters from people such as Mr. Sathyanarayana, Mr. S. K. Anand, Dr. U. B. Pavanaja and Sheshadri Vasu. These letters have created lots of doubts in Kannadigas and the work of KSD has come to stand still in GoK.

In continuation of the meeting of MAY 25th 2004, Dr. Lingadevaru Halemane had sent out the following email to some of you. This email is missing some of you and it does not give all the information that has to be covered in July 16th, 2004 meeting at VIJAYANAGARA CLUB, Bangalore.
________________________________________________________________
lingadevaru nil halemane <halemane1@rediffmail.com> wrote:
Date: 14 Jul 2004 11:09:13 -0000
From: "lingadevaru nil halemane" <halemane1@rediffmail.com>
To: ptejasvi@sancharnet.in
CC: bnsrama@sancharnet.in, aparanji@hotmail.com, sastry@ead.cmmacs.ernet.in,
sharada@ciil.stpmy.soft.net, pandita@eth.net, sathya_asn@yahoo.com,
pavanaja@vishvakannada.com
Subject: Kannada Software


Dear all,
This is to inform you that a second meeting on kannada software will be convened on 16th friday at 11 am in vijayanagara club in Bangalore.Unlike the last meeting which was convened at CIIL Mysore,this is an unofficial meeting being convened in the interest of kannada software development.You are requested to attend the meeting.
With regards,
Lingadevaru Halemnae

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The list of the people that are invited for the meeting to be held on July 16th, 2004 are:

1. Sri. Purnachandra Tejaswi – Famous writer, Mudigere

2. Dr. Chandrashekara Kambar - MLC and Writer,

3. Dr. Pavanaja – CEO, Vishwa Kannada.com, Bangalore

4. Dr. Sreenatha Shastry – Karnataka Ganaka Parishat, Bangalore

5. Sri. Satyanarayana – Software Engineer, Bangalore

6. Shivakumar – Editor, Aparanji

7. Dr. Sharada – CIIL, Mysore

8. Dr. Panditharadhya – Karnataka Ganaka Parishat, Mysore

9. Sri. Lingadevaru Halemane – CIIL, Mysore, Convener of the meeting

10. Prof. B.N. Sreeram – Publisher, Mysore

11. Prof. Sri. G. Venkatsubbaiah - Renowned Lexicographer and Critic

12. Mr. Satheesh Gowda - EKAVI Trust

13. Mr. S. K Anand., Managing Director., Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd.

14. Sri. Gyanesh – Software Engineer, Bangalroe,

15. Sri. Rajaram – Nava Karnataka Publications, Bangalore

16. Sri. Prasad – Software Engineer, Bangalore

17. Dr. B. Mallikarjun – CIIL, Mysore

18. Mr. G. N. Narasimha Murthy, KGP Executive


Also Dr. Lingadevaru Halemane has been entrusted to personaly call the following to attend the KCD meeting:

1. Hon. Minister M. P. Prakash.
2. Mr. B. L. Shankar (I talked to him. He will be out of town and will be back on July 17th. He needs the minutes of the July 16th meeting)
3. Hon. DY CM Sri. Siddaramaiah


AGENDA for Friday, JULY 16th, 2004 meeting to be held from 11:00 AM
AT VIJAYANAGARA CLUB , 1st Main, 4th Cross,
RPC Layout, Bangalore 40., 23300675, 23386056

1. Approve the Minutes of May 25th meeting and address by Dr. Halemane.
2. Sri. Purnachandra Tejasvi's comments on all the developments of KSD.
3. Dr. Chandrashekara Kambar's comments on KSD and how he got involved in KSD.
4. If any Minister or others comes let them address

Start Discussions.

The following things have to be discussed and covered in July 16th, 2004 meeting. These are all suggestions to all of you to look into in this meeting.

To make Kannada as widely prevalent as possible on the existing and future base of installed computers in Karnataka as well as its diaspora around the world.

a. Existing base of computers:

Easy convertibility of documents and databases to and from Unicode and Iscii.
Standardization of a bi-lingual font in Kannada for usage on Windows 98 and Linux
Font manager for rendering Unicode on Windows 98 and Linux using Truetype fonts.
A font renderer for Opentype fonts in Windows 98 with Unicode.
Multiple keyboard layout support like Typewriter, Inscript apart from the GOK standard (based on K.P. Rao)
Development of aesthetic Kannada fonts in both Truetype and Opentype in Kannada

b. Encouragement to an "Open Source Group" for Kannada development.

c. Ensure availability of low cost computing devices which are Kannada enabled to the public at large.

d. Allow a level playing field for all entities.

e. A lot of non-kannada people who find it difficult to read the Kannada script can be drawn into reading official and literary works in kannada if the script barrier is overcome.

f. What are the GO's should be changed at GoK level and recomendations to GoK after this meeting and to include the conclusions of May 25th meeting.

There are other things which people can bring in the meeting also. These have to be considered and discussed.

If you have any questions , please contact:

Dr. L. Halemane 98801-39613 and Mr. Satheesh Gowda 98861-28500.

Thanks
Sincerely

V. M. Kumaraswamy , MBA
CEO, NOVA Group,
EKAVI FOUNDER
www.ekavi.org
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