By Service | 21 August, 2020
A list of some of the first working / project groups is below.
Some already have their own separate overview pages further down on this page.
If you are interested in being a lead for a project, working in one of the teams, or you can give valuable input, please send us an email.
There are also interesting sponsoring chances, as each project will also have its own sponsors.
1. Products for end users
1.1 Booklets - Style Guides
Description
Development of generic styleguides which can be used by exporters, documentation and website authors.
1.2 Book - “Colish. Everything you wanted to know”
Description
A compendium with background information about Colish.
1.3 eDict - Downloadable
Description
Development of the service so that users can download the dictionary for the software of their choice.
2. Colish Core Product Development
2.1 Long Term Support Roadmap
Description
Define a long term roadmap based on social, scientific evidence which can be used to enable future generations to use an optimised English spelling.
2.2 Colish Word Database Framework
Description
Define a framework which can be used programmatically to create the Colish Word Database (CWD). Includes rules, psychological acceptance, behaviour.
2.3 Colish Vocabulary Version 1 (Stable)
Description
Create the Colish vocabulary for Version 1.
2.4 Establishing Colish Core PLM
Description
Establishing the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process for the Colish Core so that the needs of stakeholders (children, students, adults, natural language speakers, psychologists, policy makers, educational organisations, media) can flow into it.
3. Interfaces
3.1 Dictionary Hub
Description
Development of the Dictionary Hub as a service, with API development, release management, devops practices. The Hub will be used to roll out the dictionary to partners and systems,
4. Community and admin services
4.1 Community support
Description
Development of resources and services to support the community i.e. for:
- Affiliates
- Ambasssadors
- Corporate partners
- Friends
- Investors
- National policy makers
- HLT development focused organisations
- Publishers
- Sponsors
- Teachers and educational organisations
4.2 Services for Administration
Description
Development of resources and services to support the admin including:
- Acccounting
- CRM
- ERP
- User management
- Team spaces
5. Standards
5.1 Dictionary APIs
Description
Coordination of the Dict Hub APIs to be standardised.
Rollout
Rollout is an umbrella term being used within the Colish Initiative for everything which has to be developed and be distributed. For example one of the main ‘rollout’ items in the future will be the dictionary which we hope to deploy to a large number of mobiles via partners.