GEO telecon -- 14 Jun 2006

<scribe> Scribe: Richard Ishida, then John O'Connor

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RI was at SSML Internatoinalization Workshop in Crete last week

RI presented tutorial at WWW2006 conference on internatoinalization

http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/www2006-ri.html

<scribe> New material:

[1] introduction to practical & cultural issues

http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/www2006-ri-practical/slides.pdf

[2] understanding the new language tags

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/bcp47/

Misc

Future of the WG

<scribe> ACTION: RI, change the IRC channel in the agenda [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/06/14-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action01]

<joconner> john now taking notes as scribe

<joconner> future of working group...proposed restructuring of group

<joconner> restructuring will go ahead. GEO absorbed into core working group

<joconner> questions?

<joconner> no substantive reservations have come up

<joconner> A character model working group will be formed.

<joconner> May have a core mtg every two weeks

New WG members

Roberto Scano & Pasquale Popolizio from Italy

<pasquale> hi all

hi pasquale

<pasquale> I'm sorry, Richard, but my phone carrier, in this period, makes me unable to use Voip :-(

pasquale, will roberto attend these meetings or just you ?

<pasquale> just me

International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers

> Guild (IWA-HWG)

<pasquale> do you want a little presentation?

yes, please

<pasquale> I'm Pasquale Popolizio, IWA/HWG International Webmaster Association Member.

<pasquale> I'm from Naples, Italy, EU.

<pasquale> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=it&q=napoli,+italia&ie=UTF8&ll=40.856409,14.26918&spn=14.616547,42.93457&t=k&om=1

<pasquale> I'm a Web accessibility consultant and a Semantic Web researcher; I participate in W3C WAI Education & Outreach and W3C XG Multimedia Semantics Incubator Groups.

<pasquale> I created and maintain the Italian resource about Sem Web, Websemantico.org, where you can find articles and Italian translation about Sem Web

<pasquale> http://www.websemantico.org

<pasquale> I also translated "Tutorial: Using language information in XHTML, HTML and CSS"

<pasquale> ( http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-lang/Overview.it.html into Italian

<pasquale> My desire: an accessible Web more Semantic, and a Semantic Web more accessible.

<pasquale> I think GEO work is also about Web accessibility, so I really think that I could help in this project.

<pasquale> I'm just reading and studying all the I18n documents ;-)

<pasquale> So in a couple of week I think I'm ready to help in a better way ;-)

welcome aboard, Pasquale

thanks

<pasquale> my page: http://www.websemantico.org/personali/popolizio_en.php

<pasquale> thank you

Outreach

<joconner> Molly will be speaking on internationalization at @Media on Friday.

<joconner> She will give out quick tip cards

Translation Support

http://www.w3.org/International/2004/06/translation-text.html

<joconner> Changes made to this page this morning.

<joconner> Translators asked to translate this page first.

http://www.w3.org/International/2004/06/translation-text-fr.html

is French equivalent

http://www.w3.org/International/2004/06/translation-text-it.html

<joconner> Some translations are now out of date, need to be updated.

<joconner> Any volunteers to help the update?

<pasquale> me, for italian

Pasquale, would you be interested in helping get the other pages up to date, beside italian, by contacting translators and getting them to translate the page for their language?

<pasquale> ok

thankyou

very much !

<pasquale> ;-)

I can talk to you offline about who to contact

<pasquale> ok

GEO Work Items

http://www.w3.org/International/2003/plan.html

<joconner> Richard has been working on language tags doc.

<joconner> Should we send out for review for an additional week? Agreed.

XHTML for Arabic & Hebrew is now finished and published

What should I consider wrt moving to UTF-8?

<joconner> There have been comments on the "What should I consider wrt moving to UTF-8"

<scribe> ACTION: RI, send Andrew comments [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/06/14-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action02]

<scribe> ACTION: Andrew, Work on comments for What should I consider wrt moving to UTF-8? [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/06/14-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action03]

<joconner> Working draft tutorials

Tutorial, CSS3 and international text

<joconner> has been rewritten, still in draft form.

<joconner> Should send this out for wide review and publish. Agree?

http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/css3-text/

Agreed

<joconner> ACTION: RI, send CSS3 and International Text for wider review [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/06/14-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action04]

<joconner> Script characteristics

http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/tutorial/

<joconner> should make available from i18n site.

<joconner> provide links only?

<joconner> Will link to this material rather than copy to i18n site.

<joconner> This material has already had wide review.

<joconner> Reviewed by Unicode Technical Committe.

<joconner> Will just publish links.

<joconner> "What is encoding and why should I care " in draft

What is encoding, and why should I care?

http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoEncoding

<joconner> ACTION: Andrew will draft this document and return in 2 weeks. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/06/14-i18ngeo-minutes.html#action05]

XSLT for multilingual output

http://esw.w3.org/topic/xsltFaqMar05

<joconner> http://esw.w3.org/topic/xsltFaqMar05

<joconner> May drop this document...

http://www.w3.org/International/2003/plan.html

<joconner> Will move further down the pipeline.

Usability testing and modification

<joconner> move down pipeline as well.