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This is the main page for the 2015 Globalization Group FAD, which is a FAD (a mini-conference) focused on working on Fedora 24 development plans, brainstorming on Fedora globalization workflow and deciding strategy for different Fedora products.
Purpose
Fedora Globalization group involves 4 project Internationalization, Localization, Language Testing Group and Zanata. These group has spread across the regions. We are proposing 3 days of FAD and we would like to do following activities/tasks.
Task list:
- Fedora globalization
- synchronize l10n, i18n, Zanata and FLTG.
- Deciding g11n mission in the rise of Fedora.Next products. Workstation, Server and Cloud.
- Fedora 24
- Development plans
- Change proposals
- Test day improvements plan.
- Listing out Fedora language support status. Crosscheck with CLDR or Wikipedia list.
- Deciding on Fedora locale related default fonts selection procedure.
- Working on Glibc locale-archive split into different locales.
- L10n Sprints planning for Fedora releases.
- Fedora language spins - Defining process to get requests.
- What should mentors for G11N do? Reviewing quick start documents.
- Identifying and Filling missing bits of "How to loosely organize a community"
Impact
The completion of these goals will create the following positive change within the project.
- Fedora G11N activities are going very silently, with FAD dedicated on G11N will help to create buzz and help to get more activities and more contribution in this domain.
- Synchronization between 4 groups i18n, Zanata, l10n and FLTG under the globalization initiative.
- Getting mentors and quick start guide will attract new contributors to G11N.
- Test day improvement. Better planning, more relevant test case and more contribution on testday.
- Globalization plans for Fedora products Workstation, Server and Cloud by understanding there requirements.
- Completion of long time pending task from Globalization.
These outcomes connect with the following Fedora Community Objectives by:
- Fedora.Next initiative :- Understanding and planning for globalization requirement of different products.
- Creating a Free (as in Freedom) distribution
- Produce robust time-based releases every six months :- Development plans just after F23 will help to complete change proposals well in F24 release cycle.
- Building open source software communities
- Be on the leading edge of free and open source technology :- Fedora distribution has been remained leading the globalization development. Most of innovations first happens into Fedora and then other distribution adopts it. Example. IBus, Locales, Predictive text input method and Various fonts.
- Getting mentors and quick start guides will motivate and ease contribution from community members.
- Promote a global perspective by supporting as many languages and geographic locales as possible
- We will identify Fedora present situation from language support and will plan to cover more languages.
- Developing the science and practice of building communities
- Use existing models that work, (re)building on them only as needed in each case :- i18n, l10n, zanata and FLTG groups already doing most of the things out of this. Going through this can provide more inputs on how can we build more community around it.
Detailed Work Items & Final Attendees
| Name | Remote/Local/Travel | Sun | Mon | Tue | Core Tasks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pravin Satpute | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Organizer + Documentation + Development |
| Akira TAGOH | Local | yes | yes | yes | Organizer + Development |
| Michelle Kim | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Zanata + G11n Operation |
| Jens Petersen | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Organizer + Development |
| Peng Wu | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Parag Nemade | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Alex Eng | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Zanata + G11n Operation |
| Carlos Munoz | Travel (will be in Tokyo around those dates for OpenStack summit) | yes | yes | yes | Zanata |
| Takao Fujiwara | Local | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Mike Fabian | Travel if possible | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Mohamed Fawzy | Remote | new member, Localization | |||
| anish | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Daiki Ueno | Local | yes | yes | yes | Development |
| Noriko Mizumoto | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Localization |
| Ani Peter | Travel | yes | yes | yes | Zanata & FLTG |
| Sundeep Anand | Remote | yes | yes | yes | new member, Development |
| Tomoyuki Kato | Local | yes | yes | yes | new member, Localization |
Planning Prerequisites
See the How to organize a FAD list; you can keep your to-do list here.
Completed work itemDecide on Dates and LocationWork out budgetArrange Facilities- List Resources
- Be Somewhat Structured
- Arrange Lodging
- Arrange Refreshments
- Arrange a Social Event
Time and Place
- Location: Red Hat office, Ebisu Neonato 5F, 4-1-18 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Japan (map)
(note office will be closed on the public holidays on 1st and 3rd Nov so we will meet outside for access - details will be sent later)
- Date: 1-3th November, 2015
starting 10am and finishing 6pm with lunch around 1pm
Access
From Narita Airport easiest access is probably with the JR (Japan Railway) Narita Express Airport train which runs from the airport stations to various stations in around Tokyo: the nearest station it stops at is JR Shibuya which is one stop from Ebisu Station. They have a 33% [discounted round-trip (return) ticket currently|http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/nex_round.html] available to visitors at the airport train stations, making it the cheapest way to get quickly into the city and back.
Schedule
Day I Sunday Schedule
| Time | Scheduled activity | Session Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Meeting point: JR Ebisu Station East Exit | Akira |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Welcome and Introductions | Jens |
| 10:10 - 10:45 | Fedora G11N discussion and planning | Pravin |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Fedora L10n status and discussion | Ani Peter, Noriko |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Fedora i18n status and discussion | Akira |
| 12:25 - 12:55 | Fedora Zanata status and discussion | Alex Eng |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 18:00 | Hackathon | All |
Day II Monday Schedule
| Time | Scheduled activity | Session Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Fedora Project Leader hangout | Matthew, Pravin |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | G11n Governance discussion | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Hackathon | All |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Hackathon | All |
| 14:45 - 16:15 | Break-room discussion time | All |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Hackathon | All |
Day III Tuesday Schedule
| Time | Scheduled activity | Session Lead |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Meet outside Neonate building on Ground Floor | Akira, Jens |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Hackathon | All |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Hackathon Lightning Presentations | All |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Fedora 24 Planning | All |
| 15:00 | FAD Closing | All |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Fedora 23 Release party | All |
Hackathon Sessions
- GLibc locale sub-packaging prototyping and testing (Mike, Jens, Pravin)
- Automated Testing for L10N and I18N (Tagoh, Jens, Daiki)
- Updating Fedora Language support matrix (Pravin, Parag, Ani)
- Mentoring: how to get more contributors (Parag?),
- Fedora Language Spins (Pravin, Parag)
- L10N of Fedora Magazine (Alex, Carlos, michelle)
- Next generation G11n architecture design (Jens, Carlos)
- Make zanata-python-client compatible with Zanata 3.7 (Anish, Sundeep)
- Hunspell dict infra planning (Anish, Parag)
- Determine important packages (including Gnome for QA test) for localization (noriko, jens, pravin, ani, michelle)
- Fedora Wiki G11N improvements (noriko, ani, pravin)
- Containers i18n - Evaluation and Testing (Anish, Jens, Peng)
- In-app translation (Tagoh, Jens, )
- Web-based input methods (Anish)
- Manpage translation (Mike, Tagoh, Jens)
- ITS for translation (Daiki)
- ibus future development (Fujiwara, Peng)
- Fedora G11n Governance (Jens, Pravin )
- Participants arrive at THIS_TIME_AND_DATE
- PravinS arrive on 29th Oct 2015 date
- ParagN arrive on 29th Oct 2015 date
- Mfabian arrive on 31th Oct 2015 date
- Will add other people who are travelling
- Participants leave at THIS_TIME_AND_DATE
- PravinS leave on 7th Nov 2015 date
- ParagN leave on 4th Nov 2015 date
- Mfabian leave on 11th Nov 2015 date
- Important skills (any of the following)
- Fonts
- IME (IBus, SCIM)
- Encoding (Unicode)
- CLDR.
- Language experts.
- Zanata
- Personnel (people who might fit the bill)
- Name (location, role) Confirmed? (Y/N)
- Name (location, role) Confirmed? (Y/N)
- Name (location, role) Confirmed? (Y/N)
- others?
- Other considerations
- Contributor V can offer a living room for evening social gatherings.
- Contributor W has a car and is willing to do airport pick-ups.
- Contributor X needs as much advance notice as possible.
- Contributor Y has a schedule that is better on Fridays than on Tuesdays, and prefers weekend times after 4:28 AM.
- Contributor Z is allergic to peanuts.
Logistics
Snacks/Beverages: Details go here.
Lunch: Details go here.
Dinner: Details go here.
Budget
If you want funding from Red Hat, ask the OSAS team. If you can find other ways to fund your FAD, that's great too! Ticket for Fedora Council trac
| Attendee | Status | Arrival | Departure | ~Travel cost | Hotel | Notes | Allotted to Individual (US $) |
| 1. Carlos Munoz | NA | TBD | TBD | 0 | 0 | RH | |
| 2. Jens Petersen | NA | TBD | TBD | 0 | 0 | RH | |
| 3. Alex Eng | NA | TBD | TBD | 0 | 0 | RH | |
| 4. Michelle Kim | NA | TBD | TBD | 0 | 0 | RH | |
| 5. Pravin Satpute | NA | TBD | TBD | RH | 265 | 0265 | |
| 6. Peng Wu | NA | TBD | TBD | 450 | 265 | 0715 | |
| 7. Parag Nemade | NA | TBD | TBD | 700 | 265 | 0965 | |
| 8. Mike Fabian | NA | TBD | TBD | 650 | 265 | 0915 | |
| 9. anish | NA | TBD | TBD | 700 | 265 | 0965 | |
| 10. Noriko Mizumoto | NA | TBD | TBD | 770 | 265 | 1035 | |
| 11. Ani Peter | NA | TBD | TBD | 700 | 265 | 0965 | |
| Total | 3970 | 1855 | 5825 |
- Travel: $A $3970 for airfare, bus, train, etc. funding needed to get attendees to the FAD
- Housing: $B $1855 for hotel, etc. needed to have attendees sleep during the FAD.
- RH : 5 Attendees are directly sponsored by Red Hat Globalization group.
- link to hotel room booking website, if applicable
- Space: Red Hat facility in Toyko office.
- address and travel details for the space
- Social Events: $C 2 Working Lunch + 1 Dinner for FAD participants. $500
- Supplies:
- Not presently.
Total budget: $(A+C) = 5825 + 500 = $6325
Hotels
| Name | Cost | TEL | Address | Map |
| Hotel Excellent Ebisu | > 78 USD | +81-3-5458-0087 | 1-9-5 Ebisunishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021 Japan | https://goo.gl/maps/biUUr |
- Recommended: Hotel Excellent Ebisu. (Attendees are not restricted to recommended hotel, but any extra cost needs to be self covered)
- Note that Cost shows the approximate rates for cheaper one. not reflecting to the actual rates during the period nor for sharing room.