Dear Michael, Walter and friends,

Vicaya is definitely a worthwhile project.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vicaya/

On my side, I will have to sort out the wiki project with Clay and
others.

I am more into PHP/mySQL now. I did have brief encounters with Java
and Perl several years back, in Singapore, before I came over to
Brisane (Australia) for studies (electrical engineering) in 2002.
However, I was then working full time and studying part time
(business management), so my knowledge with Java and Perl is limited.

Unfortunately, I just disposed two books on Java and Perl recently.
But, I am always ready to get my feet wet. :-) Programming is a
passion to me. I think I can't play a major role in everything. So,
there got to be people willing to participate with a medium to long-
term commitment and take up important roles.

Walter, your project suggestions are marvellous. I am also concern
that this mailing list may turn out to be more IT than Pali.
Sourceforge is a good place, I can also fine tune the bulletin board
on Tipitaka.net for either a projects section or simply start a
second board.

I have other things at hand at the moment. I would really like to
wrap up these before moving on. Otherwise, it will always be talk and
no show. Pardon me.


metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Michael Olds wrote:

You might try for a start, the source-forge project "Vicaya" for a
UNICODE compliant site/desktop/CD search tool.

This project has gone dormant, but needs to be kept alive. A stop-gap
measure has been adopted (using docsearcher) for the upcoming ATI CD;
butthe real goal is going to need UNICODE compliance. Might as well
use the forum as a meeting place.


> There seems to be quite a level of technical expertise about, how
about starting some sort of group whereby we can club together to
produce some useful pali tools? A lot of the existing stuff seems to
be out of date.
>
> Some potential projects:
> - dictionary frontends
> - encoding-conversion tools (including to/from various non-roman
> scripts)
> - language drill-generators, including those to familiarise
> people with pali written in various scripts
> - a new, electronic pali course with supporting audio snippets