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 SEATED
The panel seated 13 December 2017
Panel membership ( tentative )
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