W3C

Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

09 Apr 2015

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Addison, Richard, Leandro, Xiaoqian
Regrets
Dennis, David, Steve, JcK
Chair
Addison
Scribe
Addison Phillips

Contents


Agenda

Action Items

close action-377

<trackbot> Closed action-377.

close action-396

<trackbot> Closed action-396.

action-419?

<trackbot> action-419 -- Addison Phillips to Remind working group to review the bp draft and supply comments on existing materials, volunteer to add materials, or provide other comments -- due 2015-03-26 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/419

close action-423

<trackbot> Closed action-423.

close action-428

<trackbot> Closed action-428.

Info Share

RADAR and Active Work Review

https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Review_radar

https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Project_radar

chinese layout requirements

xiaoqian: released to chinese community last week
... have a few comments
... working on english translation
... fpwd released to this group and non-chinese speakers by end of this month we hope!

general test development

richard: did pull request for large set of new tests and they were merged!

predefined counter styles

richard: need to find a name for our document

general article development

richard: getting started material was updated so we can get translated

Character encodings for beginners

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-what-is-encoding

richard: was going to prep for translation
... but it's out of date
... we updated our materials to strongly suggest "use UTF-8"
... and downplay all legacy encodings
... and while fixing that...
... make other editorial changes
... above link is result
... don't think needs wide review

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2015/04/09/updated-article-character-encodings-for-beginners/

addison: if you see something you don't like, send a note to richard

Korean layout status

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/track/products/42

richard: about a year ago one contributor suggested fixes in tracker
... so yesterday spent time working on implementing those while porting to github

<scribe> ... closed the related tracker issues

UNKNOWN_SPEAKER: but can still see open issues unreplied
... try to contact authors to reactivate?
... chinese experience with github has been good so far
... FPWD we published is now out of date
... can we approve a new version?

<r12a> http://w3c.github.io/klreq/

richard: only small changes (a few pictures corrected, section removed, small edit changes)

addison: please indicate support (+1) or non support (-1) of publishing new WD of Korean Layout Requirements

<r12a> +1

<addison>+1

<Leandro> +1

<xiaoqian> +1

<scribe> chair: so resolved

<scribe> ACTION: richard: publish new WD of Korean Layout Requirements [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-429 - Publish new wd of korean layout requirements [on Richard Ishida - due 2015-04-16].

<scribe> ACTION: richard: contact editors of KLReq for comments and seeking additional support [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-430 - Contact editors of klreq for comments and seeking additional support [on Richard Ishida - due 2015-04-16].

find a name for predefined counter styles note

<r12a> Ready-made Counter Style Templates

<r12a> International Counter Style Code

leandro: Counter Style Templates

richard: don't really cover Latin
... er Latin script
... not really templates?
... recipes?

Ready-to-use counter styles

<scribe> ACTION: richard: send new message to www-international looking for a name for our counter styles note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-431 - Send new message to www-international looking for a name for our counter styles note [on Richard Ishida - due 2015-04-16].

richard: snippets?

TPAC logistics

richard: TPAC organizers want to know about rooms or not wanting room asap
... probably don't want one? but chatted with xiaoqian and would maybe be good to have one for clreq
... a couple more folks may come
... small room?

xiaoqian: might be about five people to talk about clreq?
... if possible, good to have similar session to tpac 2014

richard: is there a plan to have a meeting separately?

xiaoqian: depends
... no request for a separate room
... (name) working on chinese ruby in mozilla and may attend

<scribe> ACTION: addison: amend our tpac WBS to request a room for TPAC [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-432 - Amend our tpac wbs to request a room for tpac [on Addison Phillips - due 2015-04-16].

Publish WD of Language Tags and Locale Identifiers (LTLI)

http://www.inter-locale.com/w3c/ltli/LTLI-20150211.html

http://www.inter-locale.com/w3c/ltli/LTLI-20150226.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/ltli/

<scribe> ACTION: addison: send LTLI to richard for adding to github [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action05]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-433 - Send ltli to richard for adding to github [on Addison Phillips - due 2015-04-16].

richard: send an email when I've posted to github

addison: okay

Best practices with the W3C process

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2015Apr/0000.html

addison: (summarizes)

<Leandro> Sorry folks, I have to leave now - talk to you next week

richard: how long is a document likely to take to get to CR? that would be quite useful (6 months or 6 years?)

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: addison: amend our tpac WBS to request a room for TPAC [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: addison: send LTLI to richard for adding to github [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action05]
[NEW] ACTION: richard: contact editors of KLReq for comments and seeking additional support [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: richard: publish new WD of Korean Layout Requirements [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: richard: send new message to www-international looking for a name for our counter styles note [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/04/09-i18n-minutes.html#action03]
 
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