Hi Rafal
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> Rafal, Pravin and Silvia
> I am thinking that it would be nice if we can meet people from other
> teams, such as i18n, dev team, web, hub, docs, Zanata, etc.
> This will help them to understand Localization team, in same time we
> will be able to obtain help and direct answers for questions we have.
This is even a bigger dream to gather all people which should be involved.
This sounds like a bigger event for me, like whole Flock. :-)
L10N FAD should be mainly the place to contribute l10n as well the place
receive support about l10n. A translator may want to have questions,
such as I want to understand the mechanism of an i18n process better, or
I want to know the reason why my effort is not reflected in particular
release, or I have the experience being asked to create a patch what to
do, or I filed the bug but never be solved, and more. Some of senior
translators may know the fact or have the answer, but it would be best
to have an answer from a developer so that he/she notice our issue and
take them back their team to share.
In this aspect, it is different from flock and a developer has no time
to showcase their piece of art. This is best place for them to advertise
their software in order to boost the localization percentage and quality
for their software (community of practice).
Besides, Internationalization and Localization are totally different.
Without i18n process, a software is not localizable. Besides, if no one
from l10n team work for a software, it is no point that software to be
i18n.
I feel some or more developers misunderstand that Localization will
automatically happen once they give internationalization process, aka
all translators magically find their repo and give a translation
whenever they want. Actually we sometime have been doing this, cz we are
so smart.
I hope my feeling is totally wrong.
> Could you kindly invite the other teams you are working closer?
I will try to pass the message although the teams I am working with
are sometimes beyond Fedora.
Thanks!
> .....after I created the page......I noticed that I should have named it
> g11n fad?!......while fltg seems stop working......please advise what is
> the best naming....
I think that L10n FAD is a good and correct name. We had G11n FAD last
year [1] hm... actually I18N FAD, and I was told many times that this was
not the same thing as L10n FAD. We were not talking about translations,
or if we were then not about particular languages but about translations
in general.
Thank you, Rafal, for sharing your experience.
True, let's leave it as l10n fad for now. I still like the idea to call
it g11n fad, if more variety of topics come up.
I18n team focuses on i18n, so that one of closest team to us, and they
can help l10n team in the i18n aspect. I learned a lot and received help
from Akira, Parag, Jens, Pravin and many of i18n team. They are usually
not translators. This can be said same with fltg and zanata teams. We
work closely, and as the unity, we call g11n. I hope I do not
misunderstand the concept.
noriko