Minutes: I18n GEO teleconference 030108

MINUTES 

W3C I18n GEO Phone Conference
8 Jan 2003

Present: Richard, Tex, Martin, Steve (scribe) 
Regrets: Andrew, Suzanne, Russ


New Actions
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Richard: update web pages with new teleconference time.

All: register for Tech Plenary (see below)

Richard: start organizing what we've generated so far using the WCAG
techniques document format, so we can play with it and assess whether or
not it's meeting our needs

All: Look at Richard's TOC and send in comments.



Prior Action Items
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All: read through HTML 4.0 spec and send notes to the list about
possible guidelines. [pending]

Andrew: roughly synthesise notes from previous action [Richard to merge
notes available to date into his stuff]

Richard: Merge discussion doc and decisions into a framework doc (reqts
doc) & also review and respond to WAI requirements doc  [pending]

All: send in pointers to existing guidelines [pending]

Suzanne: put together a list of short term vs. long term goals related
to education and outreach - send it to us for discussion [pending]

Russ: contact the following people/orgs in search of additional
participants: john jenkins (Apple), andrea vine (Sun), nuray aykin
(Siemens), trados, boeing 
Tex: contact the following people/orgs in search of additional
participants: mark davis, lisa moore (IBM), hideki hiura (Sun) 
Richard: craig cummings (Oracle), yves savourel (RWS), christian lieske
(SAP), frank tang (Netscape), hakon lee (Opera) 
[was decided to do this next week to allow people to get over the
holiday backlog]


Dependencies
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None.


Today's key discussion points
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Meetings
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Action Item: Richard will update web pages with new teleconference time.
Request from WAI for meeting at Tech Plenary
Decision: Yes, we will meet with WAI at Tech Plenary in March.
Send in your registrations for the Tech Plenary
Action Item: All: register for Tech Plenary:
Registration:
http://cgi.w3.org/Register/selectUser.pl?_w3c_meetingName=TPMar03 
Information: http://www.w3.org/2002/10/allgroupoverview.html. 
Guidelines: Review of work done and next steps

Richard's ideas for moving forward:
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Richard put together a draft TOC, to start a top down approach and serve
as a roadmap of sorts.
Use WAI TOC as a starting point 
Start writing up what we have using WAI's format for Techiques to help
concretise our thoughts about content and format.
Experiment with creating overlays: Something like Richard's expanding /
drill-down documents. Organize a set of information in multiple ways for
multiple audiences and link into the techniques document for detail.
Overlays are like a 'skin' and provide a user interface to the available
data.  One overlay could group HTML and CSS information together (while
pointing to separate documents).  Another could group WAI and I18N info
together.

Discussion
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Possible approaches:
Automated: Database of pieces of information, accessed by queries which
included just what applied to a given audience. May result in duplicated
information. Or XML file with XSLT to access the right information. 
Hand-crafted ("pedestrian") route: Flags in the document indicating what
audience it's appropriate for. 
We can start w/ WAI's style for the Techniques document and build on top
of that. 
Decision: We'll start using the hand-crafted approach (not the automated
approach).
Action Item: Richard will start organizing what we've generated so far
using the WCAG techniques document format, so we can play with it and
assess whether or not it's meeting our needs. Richard may also produce
an overlay for it. WCAG headings model HTML spec headings. Overlay would
provide a different view.
Decision: We agreed to start by concentrating on a single audience: HTML
authors.
Action Item: All: Look at Richard's TOC and send in comments.
Decision: CSS / HTML: Single document or separate documents? We agreed
they should be separate with an overlay to merge them together.


Next meeting:
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Same time, same bridge, next week.

Received on Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:11:53 UTC