L10n:Meetings/2016 Paris hackathon

Logistics

Where: Paris, France. At the Mozilla Paris office, in room "Salles des fêtes" (2nd floor)

When: Nov 4-7 (hackathon days are Sat 5 and Sun 6)
Lodging: Airbnb and hotel (TBD)
Arriving at lodging: coming soon
Location maps: coming soon
Telegram group: https://telegram.me/joinchat/BNisyglc-9k0nbyEzDQ-Rg
Public Transportation: Metro and RER map

Goals

Aragonese

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Asturian

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Acholi

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
Improve Translation quality.
Develop a recruitment strategy for Acholi localizers and other key locales in Uganda.
Review translation suggestions and submit the right ones.
Inputting more effort on the following projects; Firefox health report, Mozilla.org and Terminology. These projects need more translation work to catch up with the others.
Define l10n goals for next year.
Get a clear understanding of Mozilla’s global l10n plans and goals.
Review existing suggestions for translations.
Translate as many untranslated strings as possible for both Firefox for Desktop and Firefox for Android.
Review and resolve outstanding bugs.
Get a clear understanding of Mozilla's recommended l10n process and strategies for l10n.
Strategize on how to revive inactive locales from Uganda.

Afrikaans

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Catalan

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Basque

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Bosnian

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Fulah

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Galician

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Spanish (Spain)

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

French

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
Review process for current regular translations (newsletter, etc.)
Discuss/Create recruitment strategy for MDN translation
Check if the team is still sustainable.
Update documentation for products and websites + Pontoon process.
- Part of that could be writing a message welcoming newcomers to display on https://pontoon.mozilla.org/fr/
- Also we should consider translating this page https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Mozilla/Localization/Localizing_with_Pontoon as a first step guide for Pontoon newcomers
Check if/where we need to improve our recruitment strategy and onboarding for web parts.

Hebrew

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Ligurian

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Portuguese (Portugal)

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

1.What does your l10n community hope to accomplish during the hackathon?

Receive input on methods and tools useful to the implementation of a possible locale, community centralized collection of translation reference guides. Input on the use of a reference glossary and language guide across projects.
Receive input on methods, and tools to increase the number of locale community members. How to establish and implement a recruitment plan or improve already existing ones.
Reevaluate the locale community directives and work plan.
Discussing L10n communities work, experience exchange.
Update on Mozilla's current and future projects.
Find out how valuable and viable would a free educational coding skills development and deployment program be for Mozilla and the L10n community considering the already existing platforms and possibly new ones. Usability of such a program as a recruitment tool across projects.

2.What topics would you like the L10n-drivers to lead a discussion on, either as a breakout session or with the group?

Local/global impact of existing and future Mozilla development plans on the free web.
Impact of localization programs on local access to the free web.
Future of the free web and Mozilla's role in it.

3.Would there be value in holding an open public time during the hackathon? This time could be used to:

Discuss L10n with interested university students.
Recruit new localizers for your locales.

Romansh

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Songhay

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Wolof

Create or update style guide.
Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Agenda

Saturday

Morning - 930AM

Welcome & spectrograms -- Stas, Flod, Delphine
Mozilla mission and org updates applied to your locales -- Stas, Flod, Delphine
- L10n updates from MozLondon
- Discussion about translation quality & locale-specific language resources.
- l20n and Pontoon

Lunch --
Afternoon

Breakouts

Dinner --

Sunday

Morning -- 930AM

Welcome!
Breakouts

Lunch --
Afternoon

Wrap up oustanding translation/testing work.
Update team wiki pages
Take l10n hackathon survey.
Begin plans for next l10n meetup.
Group pictures.

Dinner --

Other

Hashtag for event: #MozL10nParis

Notes: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/paris-l10n-2016
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