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

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.