Communications committee/Subcommittees/Translation/meetings/2009-03-08

Date: 2009-03-08

Time: 04:00 UTC to 05:25 UTC

Location: #wikimedia-translation (public, but only announced on transcom and wmfcc-l)

Attending: Casey Brown (chair, minutes), Az1568, Naoko Kizu, Jeromy-Yu Chan, Samuel Klein (joined later)

Regrets: Ted Chien, Cary Bass (there, but not participating)

Object: A meeting about the state of Transcom/what needs to be changed and tidied with an attempt to revive Transcom into a better functioning committee.

Agenda

• First, do we want to do logs or just minutes?
• Opening, Introductions
• Membership (some formal things; addition of new members, removal of those no longer active)
• Better communication (both internal and external)
• Translation system
• ...? :-)
• Next meeting

Minutes

• No logs are necessary, just minutes will be fine.
• The meeting was started by going over the agenda and the object, we skipped "introductions" because we all knew each other.
• Membership
  • jd has left the project, so resolved to remove him/her
  • Sabine has not been around in a while (busy in real life/other ventures), so remove her as a "member" for now but leave her as an "advisor" (but before removing her, to discuss with her/Jay in case it would complicate comcom membership)
  • the same with Ted, but it was also noted that he responded to the list (active) and that he might bring something to Comcom by himself
  • new members: britty is re-added (after her resignation), Az1568 is added officially after all the help he's given, Jeromy was added as well
• Communication
  • we need to use our internal lists better: post there and respond
  • transcom's meta pages (comcom/trans) could use a bit of work; Alex will work on that before next meeting
  • newsletters: what's open, what's closed, short/simple (hard to keep up, language levels)
    • also, periodic reviews of translation requests
  • also, each transcom member should send notes like "what I did this week" for the newsletter and better coordination
  • list of translators to be moved to private location and expanded/updated; also a public version in a more "official" place
  • spam Translation more. :-) sj suggested a box/section on the Main Page because it is such a large part of Meta.
  • make babylon more active and try to get more people to subscribe to translators-l; of course skype needs more participants too ;-)
  • OTRS: review responses; report of who contacts us; review of access (Alex is the only one missing it)
• Translation system
  • update all to new translation2 system
  • coordinators/teams are useful (list of people to contact/dictionaries of terms), but are inactive or didn't catch on — need to contact coordinators to see if interested in continuing
• Future meetings
  • we should have meetings quarterly (every 3 months), but more can be called if needed
  • in the future, we could also have more casual meetings (non-"business" ones)
  • more information will be discussed on the list