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"The Open Source Language Summit aims to bring in top open source language software contributors to collaborate, strategize and work together on world-class open source language technologies, tools and fonts. The language tools developed help improve language support for non-Latin language families such as Indic languages on key websites like Wikipedia, open web browsers like Firefox, Chrome and open source operating systems including Linux. These will be two full days of exciting, intense and productive sessions with lots of open source thinking and doing!"
"You have a right to a proper user interface in your native tongue."
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Open Source Language Summit in Pune
Wikimedia Foundation and Red Hat are organizing the second open source language developers summit in Pune on February 12-13, 2013. This summit is focused on language tools and technology development to support 285 languages on Wikipedia, the Web, open source mobile operating systems and Linux.
This developers summit is participation by invitation only.
Core language developers, open source contributors, and technology evangelists will participate in sessions on internationalization and localization features supporting the web and Linux, font support, input method tools, language search, and web standards. Other key participants include Google, KDE, GNOME, translatewiki.net and other open source projects contributing to improving open source language support.
Developers who are active open source contributors from key projects as well as Indic language communities are welcome to participate. Translators with a linguistic background who can help improve language support for Wikimedia technology projects are also welcome to participate.
If you're an open source language software contributor and want to present your work or work with us on language engineering projects, please contact Alolita Sharma (asharma at wikimedia dot org).
Language Summit Topics
Open Source Language Summit Program At-A-Glance
Tuesday, 12 February 2013 0800 - 0900: Breakfast
0900 - 1000: Registration
1000 - 1015: Introductions
1015 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1230: Work Sprint: Input Methods (IMEs) 1030 - 1230: Work Sprint: Translation Tools 1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1600: Work Sprint: Input Methods (IMEs) continued 1330 - 1600: Work Sprint: Translation Tools continued 1600 - 1615: Break
1615 - 1730: Work Sprint: Language Coverage Matrix 1730 - 1900: Lightning Talks
1900 onwards Dinner/Networking
Wednesday, 13 February 2013 0800 - 0900: Breakfast
0900 - 1000: Registration
1000 - 1015: Recap of Day 1, Agenda of Day 2
1015 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1230: Work Sprint: Fonts, Web Fonts, More About Fonts 1030 - 1230: Work Sprint: Testing Internationalization (i18n) tools 1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1600: Work Sprint: Fonts, Web Fonts, More About Fonts continued 1330 - 1600: Work Sprint: Testing Internationalization (i18n) tools continued 1600 - 1615: Break
1615 - 1900: Demos and Presentations
1900 onwards Dinner/Networking (Make your own plans)
Work sprints will include:
Input Methods
Fonts, Web Fonts, Rendering Fonts, Typography
Language Selection for multi-lingual websites
Translation tools, translation memory, improving user experience
Localization best practices, crowdsourcing
Building Translation Aids - Terminology glossaries, Spell checkers, Dictionaries
