Language tools/Language Team Plan/Language Maven Meeting Notes 20130413

Language Maven Program: Meeting Notes 13th April 2013

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

• Alolita Sharma
• Amir Aharoni
• Anatoly Mironov
• Bharat Kumar
• Chulki Lee
• Federico Leva
• Runa Bhattacharjee

Agenda and Discussion

• 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

1. Sign up form to be filled in and any required changes to be suggested by 17th April 2013 (Maven members)
2. 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.