Sinhala GP

Working Documents

Meeting Recordings, Notes and Presentations

Date	Recording	Notes
29 November 2018		NBGP-SGP- 20181129.pdf
(Dec 2017-Oct2018) The meetings were held internally
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 SEATED	The panel seated 13 December 2017

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/