Discussion group (mailing list) for the emoji4unicode open-source project: http://code.google.com/p/emoji4unicode/ 

Members of the Unicode Consortium are encouraged join the symbols subcommittee mailing list in addition to this one.

The UTC Subcommittee on Encoding of Symbols is working on a proposal for the encoding of emoji symbols in the Unicode Standard and in ISO 10646, with active participation by Google, Apple, Microsoft and others.

See the invitation for a public review.