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Meeting Details

Time and location: Wednesday, 9 AM PST, conf bridge 206
irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back-channel

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Previous Action Items

~~axel: etherpad interview questions~~
stas: have the newsgroups set up
~~stas: harvey & verbatim~~
~~stas: set up wiki/l10n/meetings~~
~~chofmann/stas: bug 654152 (all-locales)~~ Axel/oduinn
all: world ready slides review

Meeting Notes

Notetaker: stas
Attendees: kadir, pike, chofmann, milos, pascalc, stas, gandalf
Verbatim's licensing
- Pike has second thoughts on whether we should include Gerv/Mitchell in this discussion
- Chofmann suggested that we compile the list of issues that we're trying to solve internaly, and then ask legal to provide an easy-to-understand answer to each of those
Locale selection for aurora
- Pike met with oduinn and solved bug 654152 (all-locales)
- some follow-ups remain
New contributors:
- stas didn't file bugs to create newsgroups (dev.l10n.new) because he wants to talk to dboswell
- we don't really have a problem with attracting new contributors; instead, we have a problem with helping people who have already spent a couple of weeks translating and now wish
the merge of mozilla.com and mozilla.org will not happen soon
- we will wait for the new platform ("bedrock") to be complete first

Action Items

~~stas & pike: send out the notes from the meeting with legal about verbatim's licensing~~
chofmann: compile the list of issues we're trying to solve for verbatim
~~stas: talk to dboswell about communication channels for people who want to get involved~~
~~stas: have the newsgroups created~~
review axel's interview questions for the comms role
~~gandalf: set up a meeting to discuss the world ready slides~~

Roundtable

tarend

Pike

weekend project on hg graphs
discussion with joduinn on locale selection on channels
more data1.1 work

Talking points: locale selection; licensing/contributor agreement; mentor requests

stas

markup, webhero updates
discussion about Verbatim's licensing
weekly release of elmo
meetings!

gandalf

JS AST/serializer work.
Updates to L20n syntax (support for ".." and [.id|literal])
serbian silme script for accesskey revival
interviews for PCWorld, Gazeta.pl and vbeta.pl

Pascal

launched plugincheck translation for all locales for Firefox 5
fixed a few bugs in Milos mass bug filing script
work on webhero page with Milos
was 2 days at Ubuntu Party Paris manning a mozilla booth
Debetaed Romansh
Working on analysing per locale upgrade to Firefox 4 to better understand where we have people on old versions, found in the process that we have upgraded Serbian users to 4.0 and we shouldn't have. A couple of locales (sk, eu) are not upgrading as fast as others to 4.0
Updated download button on mozilla.com to remove the big version number when 5.0 is released (automatic switch)
kept on working on geoIP on europe.mozilla.org but it will need more work, request caching problems
Lots of updates on many projects
Tomorrow is bank holiday in France and I will be on PTO on Friday

talking point: debetaing, specifically Tamil

Milos

Preparing for de-beta process
- checking the firefox 4 beta locales for status
mozilla.com fixes
webhero campaign
additions to the direct marketing upgrade campaign
mozilla-europe conrtibutors work
regular verbatim projects maintenance
new locale on mozilla-messaging.com - RM - hurray!

Talking points: .com/.org/mozeu merge

Kadir

Tomcat

chofmann

Attended UNESCO conference on language policies. many good discussions on:

methodologies used in lingistic studies to determine what constitutes a language
sources of data about language use, viability and support among governments
how language is closely tied to identity
how the internet is influencing language and vis-versa.

also many new contacts for out reach on building new locale teams.

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 ==Meeting Notes==
+* Notetaker: stas
+* Attendees: kadir, pike, chofmann, milos, pascalc, stas, gandalf
+* Verbatim's licensing
+** Pike has second thoughts on whether we should include Gerv/Mitchell in this discussion
+** Chofmann suggested that we compile the list of issues that we're trying to solve internaly, and then ask legal to provide an easy-to-understand answer to each of those
+* Locale selection for aurora
+** Pike met with oduinn and solved {{bug|654152}} (all-locales)
+** some follow-ups remain
+* New contributors:
+** stas didn't file bugs to create newsgroups (dev.l10n.new) because he wants to talk to dboswell
+** we don't really have a problem with attracting new contributors; instead, we have a problem with helping people who have already spent a couple of weeks translating and now wish
+* the merge of mozilla.com and mozilla.org will not happen soon
+** we will wait for the new platform ("bedrock") to be complete first
-* Notetaker:
+==Action Items==
-* Attendees:
-*
-==Action Items==
 <onlyinclude>
+* <s>stas & pike: send out the notes from the meeting with legal about verbatim's licensing</s>
-*
+* chofmann: compile the list of issues we're trying to solve for verbatim
+* <s>stas: talk to dboswell about communication channels for people who want to get involved</s>
+* <s>stas: have the newsgroups created</s>
+* review axel's interview questions for the comms role
+* <s>gandalf: set up a meeting to discuss the world ready slides</s>
 </onlyinclude>
 ==Roundtable==