Re: L10n FAD?

Le 30/04/2018 à 13:29, Jona Azizaj a écrit :
>
> I think is better to think why we need this FAD, why is important for 
> our team etc rather than budget. Before thinking about money and cost, 
> I would focus on content and ideas first.
>
good advice!

here is one proposal


statement: there is no lack of translators, but lack of goals and 
objectives for localization so we can give our best


I'll be happy to have localization existing not only as one of the many 
ways to contribute Fedora and open source software, but as one of the 
key objectives of Fedora.

Quoting our mission [1] « At the operating system level, we don’t just 
integrate. We do new things — we build a /platform/, not just a 
distribution. The /Features/ and /First/ foundations drive us to 
innovate. We do all of this as a transparent, collaborative community of 
/Friends/, and entirely as open source and free software — /Freedom/. »

When we read our values, we have a technological view of what means 
"Features" and "First". But we don't have anything related to end-user 
languages and consequently user experience. Our friends from 
internationalization does a great job including the technical 
foundations into the distribution, and I feel like we should go further 
and lead the way for localization too. It doesn't really makes much 
sense to be able to type and read in your language but only read English 
UI, English websites, English documentation.


Innovation is not only bringing new technologies, it's also bringing it 
to the user. Language is the most important thing in our lives, it is 
the carrier of our culture. The Linux community as a whole should offer 
a good (non-english) user experience, and we can also have "Features" 
and "First" here.


A great objective to me for this FAD would be to define a Localization 
objective for Fedora

Note: fedora objectives[2] are 12-18 Month Community Objectives

This means a lot: from agreeing on what we want to do, to identify what 
we need to do. Then we'll have to drive it and find people to make it real.

You can have a look to Modularization objective [3] or CI/CD for Fedora 
Atomic Host [4]


We don't have to change the Fedora Mission to improve the situation (yet 
😉), but I'm sure we can do something interesting.

While I'm not a member of the Free Software Foundation, I find 
interesting that this subject is one of the priority projects[5].


[1] 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-project/project/fedora-overview.html#our-mission

[2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/fedora-project/project/objectives.html

[3] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Fedora_Modularization_%E2%80%94_The_Release

[4] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives/Continuous_Integration_and_Delivery_of_Fedora_Atomic_Host

[5] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/internationalization

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Jean-Baptiste Holcroft
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