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Meeting Recordings, Notes and Presentations
| Date | Recording | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 November 2017 | Sinhala GP |
Work Status Information
Suggested Timeline with Significant Milestones:
the Generation Panel intends to divide the work on LGR for the Root zone in four stages. These are organized as follows:
| Task | Status | Report |
|---|---|---|
| Preparation for establishment of Sinhala GP | Done | |
Application for establishment of Sinhala GP | Done | |
| Developing the Proposal | ||
| Finalizing the Proposal |
Panel Status Information
| Script/Generation Panel | Status |
|---|---|
Sinhala GP |
|
Panel Membership
Position | Name | Organization | Country | Relevant Experience | Language / Expertise |
Co-chair | Ruvan Weerasinghe | University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) | Sri Lanka | Involved in Standardization of SLS1134, Sinhala Unicode Implementation, and NLP research in Sinhala | Unicode /Policy Technical |
Co-chair | Harsha Wijayawardhana | Theekshana | Sri Lanka | Involved in Standardization of Sinhala SLS1134, Standardization of Sinhala Numerals in Unicode, Sinhala font creation and Sinhala Unicode implementation work | Unicode /Standardization Technical |
Member | Rajeewa Abegunarathna | Lanka Education and Research Network | Sri Lanka | Network Operations, Community Engagements, Internet Development, and Event Coordination | Community Member |
Member | Champika Wijayatunga | ICANN | Sri Lanka | Internet Identifier Systems, DNS Operations and Management, Cybersecurity, Internet Policy Development and ICANN Community Engagement | DNS/Cyber Security |
Member | Pathum Egodawatta | Textual | Sri Lanka | Type designer and font engineer, Researcher on Sinhala typography, Consultant on typography of South Asian scripts, and Contributor to free software typography and font development tools | Community/Unicode |
Member | Viraj Welgama | UCSC | Sri Lanka | Computational linguist, with over 10 years of experience in local language processing | Unicode/Technical |
Member | Chamila Liyanage | UCSC | Sri Lanka | Linguist and involved in NLP Research | Linguist |
Member | Prof. J.B. Disanayaka | Professor Emeritus, University of Colombo | Sri Lanka | Involved in encoding of Sinhala in Unicode and expert in Sinhala Language | Linguist |
Member | Sagarika Wickramasekera | ISOC | Sri Lanka | Network specialist | Community |
Member | Nimasha Dilshani | University of Moratuwa | Sri Lanka | Works as a language expert at SiTa, Sinhala Tamil translation project at university of Moratuwa. Worked as an interpreter at Indian high commission (2016 & 2017) Completed one month training of natural language processing at IIIT - Hyderabad, India (in 2017) | Linguist |
Member | Rev. Mettavihari | Dhammavahini Foundation | Sri Lanka |
| Unicode /Community |
Member | Chamara Disanayake | LK Domain Registry | Sri Lanka | Worked at LK Domain Registry and involved .lk equivalent Sinhala and Tamil labels (IDN) | DNS/Registry Operations |
Member | Aruni Goonetilleke | ICT Agency | Sri Lanka | Coordinated localization efforts of Sinhala and Tamil in Sri Lanka | Policy |
Contact and Additional Information
- Contact the Sinhala Generation Panel at: SinhalaGP@icann.org. Email recipients are panel members as listed in above. Public archive of exchanges taking place on this mailing list are available at: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/sinhalagp/.
- Integration, existing and prospective Generation Panel members will be subscribed to the following mailing list LGR@icann.org to facilitate communications on matters related to LGR work and submissions of LGR proposals. Public archive of exchanges taking place on this mailing list are available at: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/lgr/
How to submit LGR proposals?
- Submit proposals to the public mailing list: LGR@icann.org or to the ICANN staff email address: IDNProgram@icann.org
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