[minutes] Internationalization telecon 2018-01-25

https://www.w3.org/2018/01/25-i18n-minutes.html


informal summary:

INFOSHARE
- Katy Mawhood joins the WG
- BBC may contribute some insight into issues they have deploying 
multilingual web pages

SITE REORG
- r12a actioned to continue with plans to improve site navigation

Localization of Payment Sheets
- reviewed practical steps for reviewers and provided links to 
documentation of the process

CHARMOD NORM
- plans to make a last push on reviewing so that hopefully next week we 
can publish for wide review

AOB
- r12a to send out information about how to scribe, since Addison is 
looking for some relief in that area





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- DRAFT -

            Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

25 Jan 2018

    [2]Agenda

       [2] 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2018Jan/0005.html

Attendees

    Present
           Peter, Addison, Richard, Katy, David, Bert, JcK

    Regrets
           Steven, Atkin

    Chair
           Addison Phillips

    Scribe
           addison

Contents

      * [3]Topics
          1. [4]Agenda
          2. [5]Info Share
          3. [6]Radar
          4. [7]site reorg
          5. [8]Localization of Payment Sheets
             (https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/650)
          6. [9]Charmod-Norm
          7. [10]AOB?
      * [11]Summary of Action Items
      * [12]Summary of Resolutions
      __________________________________________________________

    trackbot, prepare teleconference

    <scribe> ScribeNick: addison

Agenda

    [13]https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

      [13] https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

    action-669?

    <trackbot> action-669 -- Addison Phillips to Ping various
    chairs or the chairs list for ideas on engaging -- due
    2017-10-26 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [14]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/669

      [14] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/669

    close action-669

    <trackbot> Closed action-669.

    action-692?

    <trackbot> action-692 -- Addison Phillips to Comment on
    csswg-drafts 2138 (emoji locale presentation) in support of
    normative language forbidding the interpretation -- due
    2018-01-25 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [15]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/692

      [15] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/692

    close action-692

    <trackbot> Closed action-692.

    action-693?

    <trackbot> action-693 -- Addison Phillips to Comment on
    csswg-drafts 2125 in support of visual truncation of
    text-overflow -- due 2018-01-25 -- OPEN

    <trackbot>
    [16]http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/693

      [16] http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/693

    close action-693

    <trackbot> Closed action-693.

Info Share

    welcoming Katy

    katy: work at oxford univ. press

    richard: spending time recently trying to support i18n
    sponsorship program
    ... contact people, get involved
    ... visited the BBC and gov't on Monday

    <Katy> Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! :)

    richard: might get some joiners from there
    ... BBC has interesting problems in their websites
    ... make github repo where we can raise issues
    ... see everything through "need to reduce bandwidth"
    ... especially due to low bandwidth
    ... problems with e.g. Sinhala
    ... sounded interesting
    ... HM government not as interested
    ... WCAG has guidelines, lots of folks use to make in-house
    ... tailor it to themselves
    ... nice to have i18n guidelines like that

    <r12a> [17]https://r12a.github.io/scripts/sinhala/

      [17] https://r12a.github.io/scripts/sinhala/

    David: BBC or BBC-WW?

    richard: BBC

    <r12a> [18]https://r12a.github.io/pickers/sinhala/

      [18] https://r12a.github.io/pickers/sinhala/

    addison: not already have a repo?

    richard: need to think it through, maybe i18n-discuss
    ... but don't want to pollute

    <r12a>
    [19]https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html?
    collapse

      [19] 
https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html?collapse

Radar

    [20]https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

      [20] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

    [21]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

      [21] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

site reorg

    richard: because of conversations with BBC, netflix, etc.
    ... site not terribly helpful

    <r12a> [22]https://w3c.github.io/alreq/homepage/

      [22] https://w3c.github.io/alreq/homepage/

    richard: here's an idea

    [23]https://www.w3.org/International/

      [23] https://www.w3.org/International/

    (link for comparison)

    <Bert> ("find" is not "search"?)

    <Bert> (and "search" is not "site search"?)

    (why is our home page title "W3C Internationalization Activity
    Blog"?)

    <r12a> [24]https://www.w3.org/International/groups/

      [24] https://www.w3.org/International/groups/

    <Katy> +q

    addison: any objections?

    David: lot of whitespace

    <scribe> ACTION: richard: update WG pages with new header
    discussed in teleconference

    <trackbot> Created ACTION-694 - Update wg pages with new header
    discussed in teleconference [on Richard Ishida - due
    2018-02-01].

    <r12a> [25]https://www.w3.org/International/layout

      [25] https://www.w3.org/International/layout

    bert: don't like logo further left than body text; align?

    richard: done on purpose

Localization of Payment Sheets
([26]https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/650)

      [26] https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/650)

    peter: active in web payments wg
    ... trying to get to CR
    ... realized that some i18n ones were there
    ... do we have some guidelines/checklist to do good reviews or
    get issues unstuck

    <r12a>
    [27]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/getting-started/wg.en

      [27] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/getting-started/wg.en

    <r12a>
    [28]https://www.w3.org/International/reviews/review-instruction
    s

      [28] https://www.w3.org/International/reviews/review-instructions

    <r12a>
    [29]https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-spec
    s?collapse

      [29] 
https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs?collapse

    [30]https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-spec
    s?collapse

      [30] 
https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs?collapse

    <r12a> [31]https://w3c.github.io/bp-i18n-specdev/

      [31] https://w3c.github.io/bp-i18n-specdev/

    <r12a> note that you can point people to specific parts of the
    checklist, such as
    [32]https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-spec
    s.en?open=locale&open=loc_names

      [32] 
https://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs.en?open=locale&open=loc_names

    <r12a>
    [33]https://www.w3.org/International/reviews/review-instruction
    s

      [33] https://www.w3.org/International/reviews/review-instructions

    [34]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

      [34] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

    <r12a> this is also useful
    [35]http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

      [35] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews/

Charmod-Norm

    [36]http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/

      [36] http://w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/

    <Katy> :)

    [37]https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/

      [37] https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/

    [38]https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/155

      [38] https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/155

    katy: users of legacy encodings can be hard to convince to move
    to unicode
    ... so a couple paragraphs to convince of value
    ... linguistics folks use a lot of proprietary encodings too

    <r12a> [39]https://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

      [39] https://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

    <scribe> ACTION: addison: put charmod-norm on homework list for
    advancing to wide review

    <trackbot> Created ACTION-695 - Put charmod-norm on homework
    list for advancing to wide review [on Addison Phillips - due
    2018-02-01].

    [40]https://w3c.github.io/string-meta/

      [40] https://w3c.github.io/string-meta/

AOB?

    addison: recruiting a scribe

    <r12a> i will send out some info about how to scribe

    <stpeter> r12a: sounds most excellent

Summary of Action Items

    [NEW] ACTION: addison: put charmod-norm on homework list for
    advancing to wide review
    [NEW] ACTION: richard: update WG pages with new header
    discussed in teleconference

Summary of Resolutions

    [End of minutes]

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