The Script Encoding Initiative was established at UC Berkeley as a means to centralize the effort to cover the 90+ remaining unencoded scripts and to track their progress, as well as provide a means to help pay graduate students, encoding experts, and specialists. Producing freely available fonts is also a goal. The response to the initial announcement of the Script Encoding Initiative in April 2002 was positive. This paper will discuss the problems encountered (finding funds, locating reliable and knowledgeable experts, getting the word out) and report on the scripts foreseeable on the horizon. A side-benefit of the project has been that the university has been brought into the Unicode fold, a potential and important source of proposal experts, font-testers, consumers, and future software developers and implementers. In a final count, the number of scripts will diminish by a few notches.