Arabic Layout telecon

Status review of action items from previous meeting

<r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/groups/arabic-layout/track/actions/open

<Behnam> close action-10

<trackbot> Closed action-10.

<Behnam> ScribeNick: Behnam

<Shervin> List of references: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/137j59fPt1nkl0h6O72SR50SX3MHk0lWzmqcEaAmo1zM/edit#gid=0

Shervin: I added new references and populate the ID column for all the refs

<Shervin> rssagent, ACTION- 10

<Shervin> Behnam: Going through action items. Other people have issues with Webex.

<Shervin> Richard: Action18, re ellipsis for minute taking. RSSAgent might not take note of this.

<Shervin> Richard: Re: Action 20. We can change when needed.

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/12

close action-26

<trackbot> Closed action-26.

<Shervin> ScribeNick: Shervin

Behnam: Updated list of editors. Adding references.

<Behnam> close action-25

<trackbot> Closed action-25.

Waseem: Will have some update on Action-21 next week.

Mostafa: Hopes to be able to have something for Action-24.

Behnam: Welcoming Khaled.

Khaled: Type designer from Egypt.

Behnam: Khaled has been active in FriBidi and Harfbuzz. He released open source Arabic fonts.
... Khaled released Amiri font.

Khaled: Currently working on Arabic fonts.

Behnam: Recruiting update.

Recruiting status

Shervin: Mahamed Mohie Edin from IBM Egypt. Shervin to get in touch and introduce the task force to see if they can contribute.

<Behnam> ACTION: Shervin to get in touch and introduce the task force to see if they can contribute [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/11/17-alreq-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-27 - Get in touch and introduce the task force to see if they can contribute [on Shervin Afshar - due 2015-11-24].

Glossary progress and plan to finalize it

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nSxYKQm_mKroCmxU4fyJ-g70Eo1_mF89yHZg8YNOuzc/edit

<Behnam> Shervin: We need to finish the glossary work as fast as we can, focusing on level 1 and 2 priorities

Waseem: Will try this weekend to work on glossary.

<Behnam> ACTION: Shervin to give Waseem access to glossary draft [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2015/11/17-alreq-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-28 - Give waseem access to glossary draft [on Shervin Afshar - due 2015-11-24].

Mostaga: Agrees regarding glossary work to be finalized earlier. Did the first round of work on the terms.
... will continue to do this.
... question about glossary? Missing the definition part. .

Richard: It's okay to have draft definition for terms, but it's also good to have good definitions.
... Comment regarding confusion about Arabic numerals.

<Behnam> r12a: Based on my experience, we better avoid using the term "Arabic numerals"

<Behnam> najib: please go ahead

<najib> Hi

<najib> Working on the glossary.

<najib> Will focus on it this week.

<najib> Has updates my action on

<najib> Font and Typographical Considerations

<najib> http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/Font-and-Typographical-considerations.html

<najib> http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/Alreq/Font-and-Typographical-considerations.pdf

<najib> Please see the plan

<najib> Still under writing

<najib> New text.

<najib> Try to talk about General type of style and scripts

<najib> Then on computer fonts and style

<najib> And then on some good practices if any.

<najib> That's it

<Behnam> Thanks Najib

<najib> Really sorry to not beeing on the call

Najib, is it possible to get this draft so others can provide comments on your text?

<najib> It is online

For example either on Github repository or an online document?

<najib> Oh yes! OK.

<najib> Will put it on online document.

Thanks, Najib.

Behnam: Back to glossary.

Drafting status

Mostafa: Scripting the table content from CLDR.
... The section can be improved.

http://w3c.github.io/alreq/

http://w3c.github.io/alreq/#h_characters

Mostafa: Add to topics.

Shervin: Send pull requests to the list of topics.
... work on parallel on Characters section draft.
... Khaled has any questions or comments for us?

Khaled: Can help with glossary.

Richard: Should we add more people to the list of editors?

Behnam: We can add folks as we merge content.

<r12a> https://github.com/orgs/w3c/teams/alreq-editors

Richard: Write access to the repo.

Shervin: We can give them access to the repo if they like.

Richard: Things finally should be in the repo.

Behnam: They can send pull requests.

Mostafa: +1 to Behnam.

+1

<najib> +1 too

Behnam: We haven't had any content pull requests.

<Behnam> Shervin: Contribution history can be preserved with pull requests, as well, regardless of write access to main repo

Richard: Sounds like there is a plan for to send pull requests.