Intellego/Meetings/Status/2014-02-27
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Meeting Details
- Thursday, February 27, 2014; 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST / 5 PM GMT / 17:00 UTC
- Vidyo Room: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=BTvYSZyJA2lW
- Recording: https://vreplay.mozilla.com/replay/webcastShow.html?key=JRiPFTAH9z94DS0
- Telephone Conference Bridge: +1 800-707-2533 (USA/CAN toll-free); password 369; conference number 99625
- IRC Backchannel: #intellego
- Attendees: Jeff, Kensie, Gordon, Mekki, Axel, Haseeb, Marcus
Talking Points
- Action item follow-up
- GSoC project
- Responses and next steps
- We're on the official list
- At least 5 students coming to IRC and asking to help
- Preliminary assessment period for a month, then we select our student
- Jeff will get an invitation to register as a mentor in Google's systems and go from there
- CRTL/CREDIL
- Mekki stopped by while in Ottawa
- Non-profits supporting language, mandate to develop technology to translate languages esp FR <-> EN
- CIRA - applied for funding to create MT for Inuktitut
- New partner - TIKIWIKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D - they're already working on Inuktitut l10n
- Planted the seed with government executives.
- Identified other open source communities (GRIL in Quebec, GOSLING in Ontario) who will be interested & made preliminary contacts
- National Research Council (NRC - Canadian Government) is a potential partner. They have an "open source committee". NRC has put an Inuktitut Toolbox on github, here: https://github.com/nrc-cnrc/
- Contribution paths
- First draft, good place to start https://intellego.etherpad.mozilla.org/contribution-paths
- Sprints
- MT Research wiki page
- Supporting & leveraging from Firefox
- Community IT
- They've asked if they can help
- Hopefully will have word from Mitcho by the end of the meeting (fingers crossed)
Previous Action Items
- [Mekki] Investigate grants from CIRA & help CRTL/CREDIL with theirs
- Partial draft CIRA application + budget: http://osstrategy.org/cira.zip
- [Marcus] Look into Pontoon and see what happens.
- [Kensie, Mekki] Polish and publish Declaration of Principles (backgrounder)
- Be a bit more clear that we mean written language (for now...)
- [Kensie] Cross-posting on Discourse
- Discourse category created
- [Jeff] Contribution paths for technical and non-technical
- [Gordon] Intellego bugzilla product
- [All] Continue vision discussion
Action Items
- [Mekki, Jeff] Make tracking list of people who have inquired about GSoC project
- [Mekki, Kensie, Gordon] Follow up with Native Languages in NA l10n Mozilla group on Inuktitut project
- [Mekki] Meeting with director of CREDIL to finalize proposal and submit to CIRA (DONE)
- [Mekki] Follow-up with TikiWiki etc (Delayed as contact is out of country).
- [Kensie, Mekki] Polish and publish Declaration of Principles (backgrounder)
- [Kensie] Post meeting minutes to Discourse
- [Kensie] Transcribe flickr photo to etherpad - DONE
- [Gordon] Survey what Native American localizations we already have.
- [Marcus] Investigate auto-language detection (with Pontoon? Something else?)
- [Gordon] Schedule set sprint time.
- [Jeff] Continue to define contribution pathways & frameworks
- [Jeff] Add Community IT contribution pathway
- [Jeff, Gordon] Continue to keep Kevin in the loop.