Language tools/Language Team Plan/Language Maven Meeting Notes 20130413

Language Maven Program: Meeting Notes 13th April 2013
Following are the notes from the first meeting of the Language Maven outreach program. The program is currently under the pilot phase of implementation.

Attendees

 * Alolita Sharma
 * Amir Aharoni
 * Anatoly Mironov
 * Bharat Kumar
 * Chulki Lee
 * Federico Leva
 * Runa Bhattacharjee

Agenda and Discussion

 * Introductions
 * Why the need for this program (WMF - Language Engineering)
 * Not humanly possible for smaller engineering team to fully understand the requirements of >300 languages
 * Work together as a larger team to better assess the needs for various languages and provide adequate support features
 * Gather localized information pertaining to the language (e.g. prescribed rules from local authorities etc)


 * Areas of Collaboration and Benefits (General Discussion on the WMF proposal)
 * Feedback/opinion about the language tools and how they are being used
 * Seek guidance about requests coming in from the language communities
 * Interact with both the engineering team and the user groups about the tools (Chulki)
 * Can also provide suggestions about similar languages (Nemo)


 * Scope of Interactions - how, when, follow-ups etc (General Discussion on the WMF proposal)
 * A monthly meetup will be organised for the Maven+WMF Language Engineering team to catch up. Preferably through hangouts
 * mediawiki-i18n mailing list is to be used unless there is a need to have a separate mailing list
 * Runa and/or Amir can be pinged if there is anything that needs to be brought to the attention of the Language Engineering team.
 * 1 x 1 hangout meetings are welcome if urgent issues need to be discussed


 * Team expansion and Onboarding procedure - language coverage, mentoring, sign-up form, checklist etc (General Discussion on the WMF Proposal)
 * Anatoly suggested having an inventory of the tools maintained by the Language Engineering team


 * Getting started - action items
 * (see action items)


 * Setting the date for the next meeting
 * Sometime in May. The date will be discussed over email
 * One of the items for discussion would be a walkthrough on the tools/extensions etc that are managed by the Language Engineering team


 * Any Other Business (AOB)
 * (Nothing discussed)

Action Items

 * 1) Sign up form to be filled in and any required changes to be suggested by 17th April 2013 (Maven members)
 * 2) Work on preparing a checklist of items that can be used for verification of a language's support status (including Language Coverage Matrix information, infrastructure elements, and other relevent information) - Runa will coordinate this, based upon the original suggestion from Nemo.