- From: r12a <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:21:21 +0000
- To: www International <www-international@w3.org>
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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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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