From: Erkki I. Kolehmainen (eik@iki.fi)
Date: Mon May 31 2010 - 16:07:40 CDT
Dear Tulasi,
May be I could explain this somewhat. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit
organization,
The purpose of the Unicode Consortium is to produce standards for use by the
ICT industry (where a very large number of individual companies clearly
operate for profit). These standards cover character encoding and related
subjects (e.g., ordering), done in co-operation with the subcommittee SC2 of
the Joint Technical Committee 1 of the international formal standardization
organizations ISO and IEC. The Unicode Consortium has also assumed the
responsibility to develop and maintain the Common Locale Data Repository,
which is used by a very large number of IT companies to localize their
products.
There are several levels of members in the Unicode Consortium (which is
reflected in the size of the membership fees). In addition to the corporate
and organization members there are also individual members, of which I am
one.
Sincerely,
Erkki I. Kolehmainen
Tilkankatu 12 A 3, FI-00300 Helsinki, Finland
Puh. (09) 4368 2643, 0400 825 943; Tel. +358 9 4368 2643, +358 400 825 943
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of Tulasi
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 10:33 PM
To: Unicode Discussion
Subject: Re: Unicode Inc
Thanks Mark for posting the links!
My posting was based on http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html
where in the bottom it said Unicode Inc.
Looks like the elected members from consortium
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
forms Unicode Inc.
Am I correct?
In this link http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
it looks like less than 100 members in the consortium.
How many members currently do you have who can vote to elect?
Link http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
says Unicode consortium is non-profit organization.
Recently I have purchased Windows 7 from Microsoft Corporation This product
has Unicode fonts for number of language.
But Microsoft Corporation is for profit.
So it looks like Unicode Inc is for profit through its elected officials,
but Unicode consortium is non-profit.
Am I correct?
I still do not understand:
What is the role of this Director exactly?
Respectfully,
Tulasi
From: Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:14:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Unicode Inc
To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
Cc: Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
See http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html. The consortium is
constituted according to its bylaws:
http://unicode.org/consortium/unicode-bylaws.html
Roughly, it is constituted by its membership:
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblogo.html, which elects the directors
yearly. The officers report to the directors, and are responsible for the
running of the consortium. The technical work is delegated to the technical
committees, which operate according to their procedures.
The background of the officers and directors can be found on
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html. For a historical view, see
http://www.unicode.org/history/boardmembers.html.
Mark
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 17:32, Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com> wrote:
I am new to this group.
I am browsing
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/directors.html
It looks like Unicode Inc is formed by
Google, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
IBM Corporation
Apple
Have I understood correct?
Also it looks like Unicode Incorporate has one director to represent whole
Asia, while Asia has more languages than any continent.
What is the role of this Director exactly?
Respectfully,
Tulasi
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