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Internationalization Working Group Teleconference

06 Jul 2017

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Bert, Addison, Richard, JcK, David
Regrets
Steven
Chair
Addison Phillips
Scribe
Addison Phillips

Contents


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<scribe> Scribe: Addison Phillips

Agenda

Action Items

https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/open

close action-620

<trackbot> Closed action-620.

action-622?

<trackbot> action-622 -- Richard Ishida to Forward poe/ordl comments on behalf of bert -- due 2017-06-08 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/622

richard: fully occupies so didn't get to it.

bert: assign to me

action-626?

<trackbot> action-626 -- Addison Phillips to Notify semantic sensor network ontology folks that review is complete -- due 2017-06-22 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/626

close action-626

<trackbot> Closed action-626.

action-627?

<trackbot> action-627 -- Addison Phillips to Pull together "requirements for language and direction information in data formats" draft -- due 2017-06-22 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/627

close action-627

<trackbot> Closed action-627.

action-629?

<trackbot> action-629 -- Richard Ishida to Set up notifications for push-api -- due 2017-07-06 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/629

close action-629

<trackbot> Closed action-629.

action-630?

<trackbot> action-630 -- Steven Atkin to Raise push-api comments after r12a sets up notifications -- due 2017-07-06 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/630

close action-630

<trackbot> Closed action-630.

Info Share

jck: second version of precis documents about to be approved
... revision fixes problems with first version
... create additional set of recommendations about how to handle things
... not consistent with our or maybe unicode's

addison: do anything about it?

jck: difficulty is everyone is doing right thing in their own context

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/writing-modes-bidi

richard: something just came up
... a while back said "doing pretty well with bidi properties"
... safari passes that are not isolated
... now webkit passes isolated
... the nightly, so hopefully safari main soon
... now work on edge

Radar

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/projects/1

richard: perhaps Bert could take up data-related stuff, perhaps microdata?
... also chaals and company were willing to come on call to explain if interested

<scribe> ACTION: addison: invite chaals to teleconference in two weeks to discuss microdata [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-631 - Invite chaals to teleconference in two weeks to discuss microdata [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-07-13].

http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

Publishing UXML

richard: took a look at ed draft and latest tr version
... there is a big panel in the tr that is not in editor's drarft
... better to have a larger, clearer banner

https://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/

https://aphillips.github.io/unicode-xml/

addison: happy to add the big change in status block

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/NOTE-geolocation-API-v2-20170706/

richard: to mark as obsolete

<scribe> ACTION: addison: update unicode-xml to include change in status banner [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-632 - Update unicode-xml to include change in status banner [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-07-13].

addison: I will style the banner box something hideous so it is notable

Requirements for language/direction metadata document

https://aphillips.github.io/bidi-lang-req/

<scribe> ACTION: richard: create github repo for new document (call it string-metadata) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-633 - Create github repo for new document (call it string-metadata) [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-07-13].

Requirements for Language and Direction Metadata in Data Formats

(addison invites folks to send pull requests)

review of qa-floating-times

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/articles/definitions-time/index

<r12a> ACTION: Richard to check John's comment on floating times article [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action04]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-634 - Check john's comment on floating times article [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-07-13].

increasing review visibility

richard: always been a worry that we don't announce clearly that there's a new spec that needs attention
... may also help making I18N more visible
... raise profile of I18N

addison: status report to chairs?

richard: publishing lists?
... ivan/dave cramer/tsviya ?
... assign folks to think about it more

<scribe> ACTION: addison: remind all to think about ways and venues for reaching out to larger audience for reviews [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action05]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-635 - Remind all to think about ways and venues for reaching out to larger audience for reviews [on Addison Phillips - due 2017-07-13].

richard: lreq folks (not layout requirements)
... maybe classify types of spec in terms of potential users in some way

david: what about gov't orgs

AOB?

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: addison: invite chaals to teleconference in two weeks to discuss microdata [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: addison: remind all to think about ways and venues for reaching out to larger audience for reviews [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action05]
[NEW] ACTION: addison: update unicode-xml to include change in status banner [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: Richard to check John's comment on floating times article [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: richard: create github repo for new document (call it string-metadata) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2017/07/06-i18n-minutes.html#action03]
 

Summary of Resolutions

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