L10n:Meetings/2016 Asian hackathon

Logistics

Where

iTrain Malaysia

Unit E-9-2, Block E, Megan Avenue 1, 189 Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Phone: +60 3-2166 1879

When

27-28 August

Lodging

Please check the map below for the lodging list, as well as your email with the PDF of lodging assignments.

Transportation between KLIA Airport and lodging

For ground transportation in KL, please use the public bus or train during the day, GrabCar or taxi by night.

• Arriving at KLIA (Main Airport)

Arrival Information

• From KLIA (main airport) -> KLIA Express (train)

KLIA Express Information

• KLIA Airport -> KL Sentral (transportation hub at city center)

• Arriving at the AirBNBs

1. After going through the custom and picking up your luggage, head down to level 1 to get to the KLIA Express train station.
   1. . By train: The non-stop service from KLIA Airport to KL Sentral station that travels for about 28 minutes. It departs every 15 minutes. It costs MYR 55/person one way.
   2. . By bus: there will be four stops between the airport and KL sentral. It runs departs hourly. It costs MYR 13/person one way.
2. Upon arrival at the KL Sentral Station,
   1. . By train: find Putra LRT where the RapidKL Train is, next to the Burger King.
   2. . By bus: take the escalator up to level 1. Find Putra LRT which is the RapidKL Train Station, next to the Burger King.
3. Board the Kelana Jaya Line heading to Gombak direction
4. Get off at the Dang Wangi station (MYR 2.00/person/ride). This should be the 3rd stop from KL Sentral.
5. Walk to AirBNB or take GrabCab or Uber.

• Arriving at the Hostel

1. After going through the custom and picking up your luggage, head down to level 1 to get to the KLIA Express train station.
   1. . By train: The non-stop service from KLIA Airport to KL Sentral station that travels for about 28 minutes. It departs every 15 minutes. It costs MYR 55/person one way.
   2. . By bus: there will be four stops between the airport and KL sentral. It runs departs hourly. It costs MYR 13/person one way.
2. Upon arrival at the KL Sentral Station,
   1. . By train: find Putra LRT where the RapidKL Train is, next to the Burger King.
   2. . By bus: take the escalator up to level 1. Find Putra LRT which is the RapidKL Train Station, next to the Burger King.
3. Board the Kelana Jaya Line heading to Gombak direction
4. Get off at the Masjid Jamek Station (MYR 1.60/person/ride). This should be the 2nd stop from KL Sentral.
5. Backhome KL is less than 3 minutes away by foot. Head southeast on Jalan Tun Perak toward Jalan Melaka. Turn left onto Jalan Tun H S Lee. The hostel is on your left side.

If you arrive after 1900, please use GrabCar or Taxi to travel between the airport and your lodging. Grabcar offers a flat rate of RM65 but requires download of the app, wifi or local SIM card. We will reimburse the local transportation expenses. If you are arriving at the same time as others and decide to take a GrabCar or taxi, please do your best to share rides.

Location maps

See this Google Map. Stars are restaurants we're visiting for dinners, diamonds are lodging.

Reimbursements

We will be able to reimburse any KL ground transportation expense you have to cover. Please keep your receipts and turn them in to Jeff, or Pei by Sunday afternoon. We will reimburse in local currency.

General Information for Kuala Lumpur

• Tropical Weather: Bring an umbrella/raincoat. When it's rainy, it pours and soaks in 5 ~ 10 minutes; When it isn't, it can be hot and humid.

• Money:

1. Cash is preferred;
2. Credit cards without chip are not accepted;
3. ATM: be mindful of scams;
4. No tipping!

• Power:

1. Voltage: 240 V;
2. Frequency: 50 Hz;
3. Power sockets: type G

Goals

Japanese

• Update style guide based on the current Microsoft style guide and trends.
• Update relevant l10n docs.
• Update translations based on the updated style guide.
• Refine and complete translations on Pontoon.
• Develop a plan to recruit more contributors.

Korean

• Create or update style guide.
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
• Finish Firefox Account, Firefox Hello, Firefox Input, MDN, SUMO localizations

Simplified Chinese

• Create or update style guide.
• Update translation glossaries.
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision/Pontoon tools.

Traditional Chinese

• Update style guide.
• Update translation glossaries.
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Malay

• Create or update style guide.
• Update relevant documentation of L10n for future reference of newcomers.
• Review and approve nor reject pending suggestions.
• Engage with external parties to review quality of translations.
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Vietnamese

• Discover & fix critical errors.
• Review all pending suggestions.
• Finish Mozilla.org localizations.
• Create or update style guide.
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.

Indonesian

• Create Indonesian style guide
• Find a new SUMO l10n coordinator for Indonesia

Khmer

• Create Pootle Guideline and Translation Style Guide
• Improve translation quality with new Transvision tools.
• Define roles and responsibilities.
• Complete not-translated strings by deadline.
• Improve the existing translations, including simplify wording, transliteration, glossary, structure and styles.
• Make plan on conducting Khmer Mozilla L10N events twice a year.
• Promote Mozilla products and mission through social events and social media.

Thai

• Create assets or language resources for new localizer
  • Add translation guideline and revise existing glossary
  • Create tool list
• Report bug and create test case for Servo
• Discuss and check status of localization about Web dev tools
• Move to other Mozilla service's projects like mozilla.org,

addons.mozilla.org, Input, SUMO, AMO, Sync

• Evaluate possibility for transition to Pontoon
• Finish translating Sync
• Reorganize Mozilla Thailand Page in Facebook

Tagalog

• To establish an on-boarding process for new localizers (looking at the possibility of utilizing a MOODLE server for this purpose).
• To create a Style Guide for translating to Filipino.
• To create a Filipino Glossary for translating Firefox for Desktop, Android and iOS.
• To establish a Termbase/s in Filipino.
• More details in this blog post.

Laos

• Exchange experience with other localizers.
• Find bug and finish Firefox for Android localization.
• Learn how to make style guide.
• DevTools in Firefox.
• Consider move to new project web or desktop.

Myanmar

• Finish www.mozilla.org in this dashboard: https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/webdashboard/?locale=my.
• Plan to recruit new localizers.
• Improve translation quality.
• Try to start using Pontoon.

Agenda

Friday

Welcome Dinner at 1930 at LOKL Coffee

Saturday

Breakfast at 900AM at the venue

Morning - 1000AM

• Welcome & spectrograms -- Jeff & Pei
• Mozilla mission and org updates applied to your locales -- Jeff & Pei
  • L10n updates from MozLondon
  • Discussion about translation quality & locale-specific language resources.

Lunch at the venue

Afternoon

• Breakouts

Dinner at 1930 at Songket Restaurant

Sunday

Breakfast at 900AM at the venue

Morning -- 1000AM

• Welcome!
• Breakouts

Lunch at the venue

Afternoon

• Wrap up outstanding translation/testing work.
• Update team wiki pages
• Take l10n hackathon survey.
• Begin plans for next l10n meetup.
• Group pictures.

Dinner at 1930 at Precious Old China

Other

• Hashtag for event:

Notes

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/asian-2016

Resources

• Mozilla l10n home page
• Telegram Group
• Pootle translation tool
• Firefox language pack add-ons
• Mozilla l10n mailing list (please subscribe)
• @mozilla_l10n Twitter account