fuel marathi meet

fuel marathi meet

A two days workshop on the standardization of Marathi computing terminologies was organized on July 31st -August 01st 2009 at: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune under the FUEL project. This FUEL Marathi workshop aimed at the community review and standardization of frequently encountered computing terminologies in Marathi. FUEL Marathi Evaluation meet aimed at solving the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translations in Marathi language. This workshop was hosted and sponsered by C-DAC, Pune.

At this occasion Mr. Mahesh Kulkarni, Programme Coordinator, GIST, C-DAC has given inaugral speech for this FUEL Marathi Meet. He emphasnized on the need of selecting those types of words that can give end user a smooth feeling of a computer in their native language. He added that with this type of community review what under the FUEL is being organized is the need of the time. An this occassion, By quoting Sant Tukaram FUEL coordinator Mr. Rajesh Ranjan told that worlds are the only wealth FUEL really aims for. Mr. Sandeep S has presented on the Marathi effort related to FUEL project. In this meet, linguists, translators, technical persons, and users were invited to participate. In this Meet, Harshad Gune of Symbiosis, Sudhanwa Joglekar of PLUG, Karunakar of Indlinux, Chandrakant D of CDAC, Madhura of CDAC, Parag Nemade, Ankit P, Fliex I, Parvin S of Red Hat, Dr Mukund Joglekar, Shirsh Bhagwat were among the more than 20 participants.

This workshop discussed on 578 commonly appearing entries people use. FUEL Marathi Evaluation meet was a concrete move towards solving the problem and after the meet, FUEL Marathi came with the standard translation of entries in Marathi language for the first time that are frequently being used by a normal user.

Localization is the process of transforming a product into different languages and adapting it for a specific locale. As the localization process becomes more complex and involves more players and tools, problems related to consistency of translations and terminology are faced. Heceforth, in this context the need of such type of meet is significant and important. Accept few languages, this type effort is generally the first effort for most of Indic languages for computing terminologies.

FUEL tries to provide a standardized and consistent computer interface for users. Before Marathi language FUEL already completed evaluation phase for Hindi and Maithili languages though there are currently eight languages working on it. So one by one, FUEL will try to come with this type of review for all Indic language.