Indic Virtual Keyboards Working Group (1908.1)
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Prof. Devendra Jalihal election as the Chair of the WG, succeeding Arjuna Rao Chavala is approved by COMSOC/SDB in their meeting dated Mar 21,2014. (Update dated 24-Mar-2014)
This working group is formed following the approval for PAR P1908.1 titled Virtual keyboard standard for Indic languages by IEEE Standards Association Standards Body on 8 Dec 2011.
Call For Participation published on 10 Jan 2012
1st phone conf held on 25 Jan 2012.
16th phone conf held on 23 Oct 2013.
Draft Layouts for Hindi and their apps published for evaluation and feedback on 12 Nov 2013.
Responses summary of Draft Keyboard layouts for Hindi evaluation and Evaluation form(for reference), Published on website 16 Dec 2013
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Scope:
This standard defines virtual keyboards for Indic language computing, primarily for use on mobile phones and tablets with touch interface. The target languages are the Government of India's official languages and their scripts, as recognized by the Government and Unicode. This standard includes definition for virtual keyboard configurations with a limited set of keys (12), and also for larger set of keys (more than 12). The standard includes prototype reference implementation of device driver and software.
Background Info:
The work carried out by the Study group towards the development of the PAR and formation of Working Group is available at Study group wiki home page.
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Status of enrollment of Applicants to WG
Number of enrollments: Crossed 170 as on 6 Feb 2012 07:00PM IST
23 July 2012: Voting members:29 Non voting members:27
26 Mar 2013: Voting Members:13 Non voting members:6(officers excluded)
Important update
Following the Fifth WG meeting, the WG Roster has been updated and access to WG has been removed for voting members who failed to attend the last two meetings despite alerts and access to mailing list for non voting members who failed to attend both the last meetings. All such people have been put into interested category, which means that they will not have access to Wiki or mailing list.
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