Intellego/Meetings/Status/2014-02-27

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

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
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=973271&hide_resolved=1
Community IT
- They've asked if they can help
Hopefully will have word from Mitcho by the end of the meeting (fingers crossed)

[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
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/guerojeff/12817171933/
- https://intellego.etherpad.mozilla.org/contribution-paths
[Gordon] Intellego bugzilla product
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=977761
[All] Continue vision discussion

[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.
- http://whenisgood.net/intellego/weeklysprints
[Jeff] Continue to define contribution pathways & frameworks
[Jeff] Add Community IT contribution pathway
[Jeff, Gordon] Continue to keep Kevin in the loop.