Re: Proposal: Fedora G11N Steering Committee

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On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 13:10, Jean-Baptiste <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Le 22/06/2020 à 08:28, Pravin Satpute a écrit :
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 6:33 AM Zoltan Hoppar <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     I think this is a good start to have a translation steering commitee,
> >     but myself I don't like the "globalization" name, but understand the
> >     purpose. Would be nicer to rename it to Translation Steering commitee
> >     - (TransCom, maybe).
> >     I suggest to have a subdomain, and a portal like site under the fpo,
> >     where every translaton can get an common entrypoint of informations.
> >     Not only wiki links, and translation portal, else I think we should
> >     provide new entries, avallable resources, and deadlines - allowances,
> >     group creation methods, acceptance percentages, changes too.
> >
> >
> > +1
> > The Translation group has made very good progress. Zanata -> Weblate.
> > etc. and very active from the last 6-12 months. Thanks to
> > Jean-Baptiste for driving many things.
> > Need to keep momentum up !!
>
> Very few people attended the last meetings, my feeling is that we have
> no real tasks for newcomers, except translating, which doesn't require
> to attend any kind of meeting.
>
> Fedora docs internationalization and translation platform migrations are
> really complex things to start with. An we already know any
> internationalization related subject is complex because of the related
> technologies that are out of reach of non-dev workers.
>
> Fedora mindset is upstream firsts, which means we don't have much
> end-user applications to translate, which probably is a priority for
> translators.
>
>
>
> I like the idea of having a space for us, what about creating a real
> documentation space? I created a mockup there:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/localization/
>
> It is easy to update, publish and translate.
>
>
> I would also love to see article, about current status of language
> support, but it is difficult to find active people for rare languages.
> Could we run interviews? I'm of course interested in languages with
> small communities (Africa, Asia, Russia, endangered languages, ...).
>
>
> We could organize translations focus? Like: this month, let's fix this
> kind of errors detected by Weblate in our projects.
>
>
> About the name, I like the way LibreOffice calls it "Native language",
> which makes it broader than just translation:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language (note, we once had Fedora
> Language Testing group ;)).
>
>
> This could make a good agenda, what do you think?
>
> * documentation for contributors
> * communication
> * community activities promotion and organization
> * name of the group (which may impact the name of our documentation, but
> that's easy to change)
>

I liked the agenda. I agree we need good documentation for new
contributors. Let me know how I can contribute, I can definitely spend some
time on it in the coming month.
I hope Zoltan and other members can also collaborate in this drive. :)

Regards,
Pravin



>
>
> Jean-Baptiste
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