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Language Maven Program: Meeting Notes 13th April 2013
[edit]Following are the notes from the first meeting of the Language Maven outreach program. The program is currently under the pilot phase of implementation.
Attendees
[edit]- Alolita Sharma
- Amir Aharoni
- Anatoly Mironov
- Bharat Kumar
- Chulki Lee
- Federico Leva
- Runa Bhattacharjee
Agenda and Discussion
[edit]- Introductions
- Why the need for this program (WMF - Language Engineering)
- Not humanly possible for smaller engineering team to fully understand the requirements of >300 languages
- Work together as a larger team to better assess the needs for various languages and provide adequate support features
- Gather localized information pertaining to the language (e.g. prescribed rules from local authorities etc)
- Areas of Collaboration and Benefits (General Discussion on the WMF proposal)
- Feedback/opinion about the language tools and how they are being used
- Seek guidance about requests coming in from the language communities
- Interact with both the engineering team and the user groups about the tools (Chulki)
- Can also provide suggestions about similar languages (Nemo)
- Scope of Interactions - how, when, follow-ups etc (General Discussion on the WMF proposal)
- A monthly meetup will be organised for the Maven+WMF Language Engineering team to catch up. Preferably through hangouts
- mediawiki-i18n mailing list is to be used unless there is a need to have a separate mailing list
- Runa and/or Amir can be pinged if there is anything that needs to be brought to the attention of the Language Engineering team.
- 1 x 1 hangout meetings are welcome if urgent issues need to be discussed
- Team expansion and Onboarding procedure - language coverage, mentoring, sign-up form, checklist etc (General Discussion on the WMF Proposal)
- Anatoly suggested having an inventory of the tools maintained by the Language Engineering team
- Getting started - action items
- (see action items)
- Setting the date for the next meeting
- Sometime in May. The date will be discussed over email
- One of the items for discussion would be a walkthrough on the tools/extensions etc that are managed by the Language Engineering team
- Any Other Business (AOB)
- (Nothing discussed)
Action Items
[edit]- Sign up form to be filled in and any required changes to be suggested by 17th April 2013 (Maven members)
- Work on preparing a checklist of items that can be used for verification of a language's support status (including Language Coverage Matrix information, infrastructure elements, and other relevent information) - Runa will coordinate this, based upon the original suggestion from Nemo.