Post date: Jun 24, 2010 5:04:27 PM
Attendees:
Wahid Saleh, Pallav Saikia, Amitav Chakravartty, Satyajit Nath, Ankur Bora, Suresh Goduka
Meeting minutes:
1. We need specific goals: two tracks
- technical preparedness
- content generation
2. Action item - database of actions and owners (owner: Wahid da)
Everyone to send their items to Wahid da
3. Identify the tools we need
Basic tools to read and write in Assamese: Fonts, editors, etc. for translation (Rasika is preparing)
Basic steps to create a blog (Manjit's instructions -- translate to English)
Xobdo already has a keyboard layout and other information ... this needs to be publicized
4. Pallav - investigate initial subsite under xobdo.org - e-jonaki-jug
5. e-jonaki-jug from Australia - Wahid-da to get contact
6. Satyajit to follow-up with Debayan on accuracy of tesseractindic for recognizing Bengali, and enhancing to Assamese
7. New idea - investigate Assamese speech recognition (Pallav). Already Assamese text-to-speech capability exists
8. Ankur will investigate further BookBox projects building on his first one (he will contact Altaf Majid for follow up). Suresh will work with Ankur as well.
9. Putting the content of Jeevan on the internet -- suggestion from Wahid da. Suresh uses Ramdhenu software (very popular among publishers) - looking for suggestions on how to get the published content to internet
Pallav -- Ascii to Unicode converter capability is available. However, it needs an ASCII to Unicode mapping for Assamese. Pallav will create and help Suresh.
10. Amitav - making the content searchable, getting the content indexed. Pallav's tool will be a great resource for this. But they need to understand how to monetize the searchable content (AdCents, etc.). Requested help from Suresh. Suresh will help connect to press club in Amitav's upcoming trip to India (June/July)
11. Follow-up with AXX -- Wahid-da with Suresh ... something to investigate