FYI
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Srujanika srujanika@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM Subject: Fw: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia. To: subhransupanda@yahoo.co.in, ajitnayak2000@gmail.com, gora@mimirtech.com, lalitpatel@gmail.com, Jitendra Dash dashbenhur@yahoo.com, Puspashree < puspashree@gmail.com>, dhanadam@gmail.com, wikiodisha1@gmail.com, odiawiki@gmail.com, giri.manojkr@gmail.com
** Hello,
FUEL - frequently used entries for localization - is basically a set of terms used for computer work in any particular language. Efforts are on among the open source workers to standardise these terms to maintain uniformity. Results of the work in Odia, carried out mostly at RedHat, is attached. That for Hindi is available at https://fedorahosted.org/fuel/wiki/fuel-hindi .
As far as Odia is concerned different vendors/developers have come out with their versions of many products. Two major examples are Microsoft's Windows 7 / Office 2010 and Fedora Linux. Modular's Ankur Indian Laguage Office Suite also has tried to present Odia interface for all the applications included. However, the variations are wide and Odia interfaces are far from being smooth. All these are available with us if anyone wants to take a look. We are preparing some notes on these. Microsoft's style guide is at http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=ori-ind-styleguide&sour... .
Personally, I have always felt the need for a dedicated group taking up this work on a long term and continuous basis. But we have not been able to devote that time and energy in this direction. Even now we are very short of manpower and are rather pressed with our work on the digitization of Odia periodicals. We hope to be in a better position after April 2012. In the meantime we can use any help available in this direction.
Manoj, whose mail is appended below, has been planning for a workshop on the subject as detailed below. We feel that it should be taken up seriously as a starting point for a concerted effort over a period of at least one year, rather than achieving definite results during the workshop. We should also look at some general problems faced in the Odia language computing activity. Some of these are outlined in the old notes attached with this mail. Windows issues will also have to be addressed in some way.
Please consider the matter and air your views as to the best way to go about this. Also please try to bring this to the notice of others. If everyone feels that we should get together on January 26-27, we can make arrangements here at Srujanika or any other suitable place.
We will make a wider announcement after the event is fixed up.
Looking forward to hearing from all soon.
With best wishes,
Nikhil
Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik, "Srujanika", 101 Saraswati Kunja, Near Jagamara Bazar, PO: Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar 751030 Orissa
Tel: 0674-2350664 / 2350640
(Srujanika - A Society for Research and Innovation in Science, Education and Development)
PS: Jitendra babu - can we rope in Prafulla babu (Tripathy) for this? Would you please give a thought to the lucidity of the terms?
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Manoj Kumar Giri giri.manojkr@gmail.com *To:* Srujanika srujanika@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, January 02, 2012 2:56 PM *Subject:* Re: FUEL & Style Guide for Odia.
Dear Nikhil Sir, Happy New Year to you and Srujanika team.
Sending you the fuel Odia .pdf file in attachment. And i'm preparing the FUEL Style Guide for Odia. I'll send that to you for verification after completing. I already spoke to Gora bhai and Arun (working in Microsoft, Hyderabad) about the event. They will come to bbsr for two days to attend this event. Only we need one or two Linguist people during the evaluation process. Please let me know if you have any contacts. We are planning to have it on January last week, probably on 26 th & 27 th. Please let me know if it is possible for you on 26 th & 27th. Else let us know your convenient time. Also i'm relying on you about the venue where we can sit together for the discussion.
Thanks & Regards! Manoj