Open Source Language Summit - Work Sprints and Presentation Schedules

This section lists work sessions and projects we plan to work on November 18-19, 2013
Sessions listed below are confirmed for each focus area.
Names of people or teams leading the confirmed sessions are listed below.

Language Support and Internationalization enhancements:

Session 1: Cross project coverage for basic language support components - e.g. Wikimedia, Fedora, Debian - 1 hour
WMF Initiative : Language Coverage Dashboard

Demo, feature walkthrough and enhancements discussion
GAP assessment for languages features and assets
Discussion on future enhancements

Session Participants:

Pravin Satpute
Harsh Kothari
David Chan
Sucheta Ghoshal
Runa Bhattacharjee

Fonts

Session 2: Walkthrough of WMF’s Autonym font - 30 mins

Considering use of web fonts on the desktop for language list (e.g. dropdowns)
Session Participants:

Santhosh Thottingal

Session 3: Font Packaging Work Session - 1 hour

AnjaliOldLipi , Meera Tamil and SakalMarathi for Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu
Identify more fonts that can be packaged into distros. Eg: Google Noto family, and fonts already present in WMF repo for less prominent languages
Report detailed bugs for fonts that need to be packaged
Walkthrough process to integrate freely licensed fonts to Wikimedia font repository
Session Participants:

Pravin Satpute,
Parag Nemade,
Vasudev Kamath,
Kartik Mistry,
Runa Bhattacharjee,

Session 4: Updating Lohit2 fonts to conform with the new Open Type spec for Indic scripts - 1 hour

Hacking and Testing for Kannada and Telugu
Test and Release for Devanagari and Gujarati
Session Participants:

Pravin Satpute
David Chan

Session 5: 'Lohit-ising' Open type fonts - 30 mins

Lohit2 is an attempt to rewrite OpenType tables for Lohit font family. This session will provide how-to reuse Lohit2 OpenType tables and from a design perspective implementing the concept on Samyak fonts as example.
Feature Presentation
How to reuse Lohit2 Open Type tables and concentrate more on Designing side

Implementing it on Samyak fonts

Session Participants:

Pravin Satpute
Kartik Mistry

Session 6: Font Specification document and discussion - 1 hour

Work done so far and the next steps
Demo: SMC GSoC project for automated font rendering test application (Santhosh T)
Demo: Ankur GSoC Project for Font comparison tool to check aesthetic quality of fonts of Indic scripts (Mayank Jha - video call)
Session Participants:

Pravin Satpute
Parag Nemade
Sneha Kore
Mayank Jha (remote)
Santhosh Thottingal
Kartik Mistry
Alolita Sharma
David Chan
Runa Bhattacharjee

Session 7: Rendering of fonts on mobile apps - 30 mins

Session Participants:

Juliusz Gonera
Santhosh Thottingal
Amir Aharoni

Input Methods

Session 8: Onscreen keyboards - 1 hour

Walkthrough of WMF UX designs for OSK and discussions with references from iok
Designs (visual and behavior) for OSKs including 1:1 and advanced mappings, and how they integrate with input fields. Special focus: Improving the jQuery.ime OSK and UX (Example)
Session Participants:

Praveen Singh
Pau Giner
Amir Aharoni

Session 9: Input methods for VisualEditor (includes jQuery.ime integration) - 2 hours

Work session for ongoing development
Session Participants:

Santhosh Thottingal
David Chan
Ed Sanders
James Forrester

Session 10: Indic-typing-booster - predictive text typing system in Fedora - 1.5 hours

Design enhancements for better prediction. Reference
Porting to fcitx
Improvements to libyokan library
Evaluation for adoption as a cloud based service for web based use.
Testing and Packaging
Session Participants:

Anish Patil
Parag Nemade
Pravin Satpute
Santhosh Thottingal
David Chan
Amir Aharoni

Session 11: Keyboard layout Images for documentation of input methods

Porting the mapper script (to capture the images) for Inscript2 layouts
Generate newer versions of the Input Method images.
Identifying documents needing updates in Fedora IM documentation and Wikimedia IM documentation.
Session Participants:

Parag Nemade
Anish Patil
Praveen Singh
Harsh Kothari
Santhosh Thottingal
Runa Bhattacharjee

Session 12: Mobile input methods - next generation

Evaluating user experience for onscreen input leveraging mobile features such as touch, ocr, smart writing layouts (e.g. stroke-based, kalq) instead of standard hardware layouts (e.g. qwerty), bilingual input methods
Session Participants:

Santhosh Thottingal
David Chan
Juliusz Gonera
Yuvi Panda
Alolita Sharma
Amir Aharoni

Session 13: Q & A with Behdad Esfahbod: State of the Union: Harfbuzz - Font rendering for Chrome, Android

Session Participants:

Rob Moen
Juliusz Gonera
Santhosh Thottingal
David Chan
Yuvi Panda

Internationalization Testing

Session 14: Testing Internationalized Applications - 2 hours
Walkthrough on the WMF testing process for i18n features of web-based applications
Optimizing the i18n testing process (creating test plans, process optimization and test maintenance) with open source testing tools such as Nitrate, Selenium, Sikuli, Cucumber
VisualEditor IME testing with EventLogger/EventSequencer

Discussion on writing integration tests for Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (L10n) tools
Session Participants:

Anisha Narang

Amir Aharoni
Sucheta Ghoshal
Kartik Mistry
Niklas Laxström
Juliusz Gonera
Pau Giner
David Chan
Runa Bhattacharjee
Manoj Kumar Giri

Content Translation infrastructure, machine translation

Session 15: Brainstorming about the workflow for digital content creation using translation tools, translation aids and character recognition - 1 hour
- Technical and data considerations
- Sociolinguistic considerations (use between lesser-resourced/dominant language pairs, acceptability testing etc)

Session Participants:

Jared Zimmerman
David Chan
WMF LE Team

Session 16: Identify and document the sources of free licensed bilingual dictionaries

Session Participants:

Anish Patil
Parag Nemade
Kartik Mistry
Runa Bhattacharjee

Session 17: Content Translation UI prototype testing

Collect feedback on our current design ideas i.e. if usability testing is possible with users for the available prototype language and making recordings of the sessions: (Special focus: Marathi)
Session Participants:

Pau Giner
Amir Aharoni

Translatewiki.net

Session 18: translatewiki.net Mobile App - testing session

Testing the twn mobile app with users - 30 mins
Session Participants:

Siebrand Mazeland
Yuvi Panda
Praveen Singh
Sucheta Ghoshal
Harsh Kothari

Session 19: jQuery.i18n in Practice, with Mifos (Siebrand M, Gurpreet, Nayan, Santhosh)

Explore the features of jQuery.i18n in the light of an actual product, Mifos X, a solution for financial inclusion of the poor.
Session Participants:

Gurpreet Luthra (Mifos)
Nayan Ambali (Mifos)
Siebrand Mazeland
Santhosh Thottingal

FUEL Project Sessions

Overview and progress on new modules

Session 20: Fuel Color Modules Review and Release
Session 21: Fuel Number Modules Review and Release
Session 22: Fuel Datetime Modules Review and Release

FUEL Connotation Analysis Guide
Session 23: FUEL Project Terminologies Integration with translatewiki.net

Bug 53460

Session 24 - Demo: Translation Quality Assessment Matrix
Session Participants:

Rajesh Ranjan
Ankit Patel
Siebrand Mazeland
Niklas Laxström

Localization Sessions

Session 25: Fedora SIG - UI Source Message Contextualization

Presentation about the process around contextualization & identifying best practices(SSCG Member)

Session Participants:

Nilamdyuti Goswami
Ani Peter
Shankar Prasad
Siebrand Mazeland

Session 26: Spellchecker enhancement

Discussion: Spellchecker enhancement and discuss about issues that need to be addressed
- Data
- Algorithms
Session Participants:

Ankit Patel
Rajesh Ranjan
David Chan
Amir Aharoni

Lightning Talks

TBD

Session Schedule

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Schedule

Monday, 18 November 2013

0930 - 1015: Introductions, Agenda for Day 1
1015 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1230: Work Sprints (parallel sessions)
Projects:

Session 1: Cross project coverage for basic language support components
Session 9: Input methods for VisualEditor (includes jQuery.ime integration)
Session 11: Keyboard layout Images for documentation of input methods
Session 20: Fuel Evaluations and Documents

1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1600: Work Sprints (parallel sessions) Projects:

Session 3: Font Packaging Work Session
Session 4: Updating Lohit2 fonts to conform with the new Open Type spec for Indic scripts
Session 14: Testing Internationalized Applications
Session 16: Identify and document the sources of free licensed bilingual dictionaries
Session 22: Spellchecker enhancement

1600 - 1615: Break
1615 - 1730: Session Retrospectives
1730 - 1900:

Session 13: Q & A with Behdad Esfahbod: State of the Union: Harfbuzz - Font rendering for Chrome, Android

1900 onwards Dinner/Networking (by invitation)

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

0930 - 1015: Introductions, Agenda for Day 2
1015 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1230: Work Sprints (parallel sessions)
Projects:

Session 2: Walkthrough of WMF’s [https://github.com/santhoshtr/AutonymFont

Autonym font]

Session 6: Font Specification document and discussion
Session 17: Content Translation UI prototype testing
Session 19: jQuery.i18n in Practice, with Mifos

1230 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1600: Work Sprints (parallel sessions)
Projects:

Session 5: 'Lohit-ising' Open type fonts
Session 7: Rendering of fonts on mobile apps
Session 8: Onscreen keyboards
Session 10: Indic-typing-booster - predictive text typing system in Fedora'
Session 12: Mobile input methods - next generation
Session 18: translatewiki.net Mobile App - testing session
Session 21: Fedora SIG - UI Source Message Contextualization

1600 - 1615: Break
1615 - 1730:

Session 15: Brainstorming about the workflow for digital content creation using translation tools, translation aids and character recognition

1730 - 1900: Session Retrospectives

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