L10n:Meetings/2016 Asian hackathon
Logistics
- Where
- iTrain Malaysia
Unit E-9-2, Block E, Megan Avenue 1, 189 Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Phone: +60 3-2166 1879
- When
- 27-28 August
- Lodging
Please check the map below for the lodging list, as well as your email with the PDF of lodging assignments.
- Transportation between KLIA/KLIA2 and lodging
For ground transportation in KL, please use the public bus during the day, GrabCar or taxi by night.
- Arriving KLIA (Main Airport)
- Getting KLIA Express from KLIA
- Arrival KLIA2 (Low Cost Carrier Terminal)
- Getting KLIA Express from KLIA2
- Getting Airport Bus (Aerobus) from KLIA 2
- Arriving KL Sentral
- For those using airport bus need take escalator up to level 1 and find Putra LRT which is RapidKL Train Station beside Burger King.
- For those using KLIA Express, you arrive at KLIA Express Arrival and find Putra LRT which is RapidKL Train Station beside Burger King.
- Arriving at AirBNB lodging
- Airport Bus (only available in KLIA2, cost about MYR10) or Take KLIA Express train from KLIA to KL Sentral station (cost MYR 55 per adult single way)
- Get RapidKL Train from KL Sentral Station to Dang Wangi station (MYR 2.00 per single way). Please onboard on Kelana Jaya Line. There only 2 station before Dang Wangi Station.
- Walk to AirBNB or take GrabCab or Uber.
- Arriving at Hostel
- Airport Bus (only available in KLIA2, cost about MYR10) or Take KLIA Express train from KLIA to KL Sentral station. (cost MYR 55 per adult single way)
- Get RapidKL Train from KL Sentral to Masjid Jamek Station. (MYR 1.60 per single way). Please onboard on Kelana Jaya Line. There only 1 station before Dang Wangi Station.
- Walk less then 3min to Backhome KL
If you arrive after 1900, please use GrabCar to travel between the airport and you're lodging. It is a flat rate of RM65. We will reimburse the expense. If you are arriving at the same time as others, please do your best to share rides.
- Location maps
See this Google Map. Stars are restaurants we're visiting for dinners, diamonds are lodging.
- Reimbursements
We will be able to reimburse any KL ground transportation expense you have to cover. Please keep your receipts and turn them in to Jeff, flod, Pei, or Gary by Sunday afternoon. We will reimburse in local currency.
- General Information for Kuala Lumpur
- Tropical Weather: Bring an umbrella/raincoat. When it's rainy, it pours and soaks in 5 ~ 10 minutes; When it isn't, it can be hot and humid.
- Money:
- Cash is preferred;
- Credit cards without chip are not accepted;
- ATM: be mindful of scams;
- No tipping!
- Power:
- Voltage: 240 V;
- Frequency: 50 Hz;
- Power sockets: type G
Goals
- Japanese
- Update style guide based on the current Microsoft style guide and trends.
- Update relevant l10n docs.
- Update translations based on the updated style guide.
- Refine and complete translations on Pontoon.
- Develop a plan to recruit more contributors.
- Korean
- Create or update style guide.
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
- Finish Firefox Account, Firefox Hello, Firefox Input, MDN, SUMO localizations
- Simplified Chinese
- Create or update style guide.
- Update translation glossaries.
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision/Pontoon tools.
- Traditional Chinese
- Update style guide.
- Update translation glossaries.
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
- Malay
- Create or update style guide.
- Update relevant documentation of L10n for future reference of newcomers.
- Review and approve nor reject pending suggestions.
- Engage with external parties to review quality of translations.
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
- Vietnamese
- Discover & fix critical errors.
- Review all pending suggestions.
- Finish Mozilla.org localizations.
- Create or update style guide.
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
- Indonesian
- Create Indonesian style guide
- Find a new SUMO l10n coordinator for Indonesia
- Khmer
- Create Pootle Guideline and Translation Style Guide
- Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
- Define roles and responsibilities.
- Complete not-translated strings by deadline.
- Improve the existing translations, including simplify wording, transliteration, glossary, structure and styles.
- Make plan on conducting Khmer Mozilla L10N events twice a year.
- Promote Mozilla products and mission through social events and social media.
- Thai
- Create assets or language resources for new localizer
- Add translation guideline and revise existing glossary
- Create tool list
- Report bug and create test case for Servo
- Discuss and check status of localization about Web dev tools
- Move to other Mozilla service's projects like mozilla.org,
addons.mozilla.org, Input, SUMO, AMO, Sync
- Evaluate possibility for transition to Pontoon
- Finish translating Sync
- Reorganize Mozilla Thailand Page in Facebook
- Tagalog
- To establish an on-boarding process for new localizers (looking at the possibility of utilizing a MOODLE server for this purpose).
- To create a Style Guide for translating to Filipino.
- To create a Filipino Glossary for translating Firefox for Desktop, Android and iOS.
- To establish a Termbase/s in Filipino.
- More details in this blog post.
- Laos
- Exchange experience with other localizers.
- Find bug and finish Firefox for Android localization.
- Learn how to make style guide.
- DevTools in Firefox.
- Consider move to new project web or desktop.
- Myanmar
- Finish www.mozilla.org in this dashboard: https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/webdashboard/?locale=my.
- Plan to recruit new localizers.
- Improve translation quality.
- Try to start using Pontoon.
Agenda
Friday
- Welcome Dinner at 1930 at LOKL Coffee
Saturday
- Breakfast at 900AM at the venue
- Morning - 1000AM
- Welcome & spectrograms -- Jeff & Pei
- Mozilla mission and org updates applied to your locales -- Jeff & Pei
- L10n updates from MozLondon
- Discussion about translation quality & locale-specific language resources.
- Lunch at the venue
- Afternoon
- Breakouts
- Dinner at 1930 at Songket Restaurant
Sunday
- Breakfast at 900AM at the venue
- Morning -- 100AM
- Welcome!
- Breakouts
- Lunch at the venue
- Afternoon
- Wrap up outstanding translation/testing work.
- Update team wiki pages
- Take l10n hackathon survey.
- Begin plans for next l10n meetup.
- Group pictures.
- Dinner at 1930 at Precious Old China
Other
- Hashtag for event:
- Notes
- https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/asian-2016
- Resources