L10n:Meetings/Celtic language hackathon

Logistics

Canolfan Bedwyr wing (within The Management Centre)

Bangor University

Bangor, Wales

when: 8-9 March
travel: Travel days are 7 & 10 March
arriving at hotel: The Management Centre is within walking distance from the Bangor train station.

The Management Centre

Bangor Business School

College Road

Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG

Mozilla mission and org updates applied to Celtic locales
- Introduction to Mozilla & the mission, for anyone unfamiliar with it.
- Organization changes introduced in Portland.
- The role of Celtic & minority language localization within Mozilla's mission.
Tools, resources, and translation workflows at Mozilla
- Dashboards overview -- flod
- Pootle, hg, & SVN tutorials -- Dwayne & flod
- Kevin's quality evaluation script tutorials
Review Prod roadmaps, schedules and priorities to better understand and plan upcoming localization work
- iOS in the UK
- Seasonal Firefox releases -- Firefox 38
- Communication of timelines -- what's working, what isn't, how do l10n-drivers support Celtic locales more?
- Firefox OS -- will it be coming to the UK?

Dashboard review & translation catchup work where localization work has not been completed
- Discussion lead by l10n teams to share common practices between Celtic languages & how they might be relevant to other small languages.
- Produce first language packs for Manx and Scots.

Dinner -- The Prys home - Within 5 minutes walking distance from the Management Centre. The address is Teg Annedd, 63 Ffordd Garth Uchaf/Upper Garth Road – nice big house name on wall to help pizza delivery men ;).

L10n community stability in Celtic locales
- Project priorities
  - How does each l10n team prioritize their active projects?
- Leadership & succession
  - How does each l10n team structure locale/project leadership?
  - Does the team have a plan of succession? If so, what is it, where is it strong and where is it weak?
- Recruitment
  - Does the l10n team need more localizers?
  - If so, what has the team done to recruit and mentor new localizers?
  - What can be improved?
  - What has been successful in other l10n teams?
- Sustainability
  - Does the l10n team have linguistic resources (e.g., Firefox glossary, style guide, etc.) to sustain the project?
  - If yes, how did they create them? Would they be willing to mentor other teams to create their own?
- Localizer recognition
  - Does the l10n team feel like they receive enough recognition from Mozilla for their efforts?
    - What form of recognition is most appreciated?
  - Does the l10n team provide recognition to outstanding members of the team?
Discuss localized product use in the UK.
- Use of localized software in education in UK.
  - How, where, and why?
- Brainstorm possible initiatives to increase locale usage and market share in UK.

Dashboard review, and translation catchup work where localization work has not been completed
- Share common practices between Celtic languages and how they might be relevant to other small languages.
- Ship first Manx & Scots language packs on addons.mozilla.org.
Update team wiki pages
Group pictures