Fw: Sharing and Decentralization of Ownership to encourage collaboration in the Community

fwding little late, sorry...! FUEL Hindi Style and Convention Guide reviewed in the meetup. Report is here: On Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:46 AM, Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshkajha(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: expectation. We did some solid concrete hands-on work and promised to continue the conversation. and explained the need and agenda of the meetup. He also discussed about Mozilla products' translation, its  various tools, related linguistic resources etc, necessary for the work of localization in Hindi. Rajesh discussed why he moved the translation from VCS hg to Pootle and how it hugely helped in the growth contributor base. he gave elaborate examples to show how and why translation is an important exercise and how the volunteer open source community are engaged in a very major activity in the age of rapid transitions. A senior lecturer in the university of Delhi, Vibhas Chandra Verma, presented a talk on 'Good Hindi'. He quoted from the great saint poet Kabir to say that language is like free-flowing water, which gathers no mud. He replied about a question between the difference of Hindi and Urdu and said that there is almost no difference between Hindi and Urdu in common parlance, except the their different scripts. It is difficult to distinguish between Hindi and Urdu sentences and grammars. He also cited several examples from Sanskrit, Hindi and Urdu to demonstrate the similarity and difference between Sanskrit on the one hand and Hindi and Urdu on the other. agenda of the meet was to review Computer Translation Style and Convention Guide for Hindi prepared by the larger Hindi community under FUEL Project. The participants discussed the positives and negatives of the guide in detail. After discussing the broad parameters of a good guide, Ravikant and Vibhas Chandra Verma took the responsibility of editing the document. On the basis of the guidelines decided upon, we will soon have it ready to be finally reviewed by the community.And then we will be ready to put it in the public domain. The style guide is written in English so that any Quality Engineer can also access it and work on the quality assessment of the translation. browser in Hindi was reviewed at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi in a review workshop organized by Sarai-CSDS. A review meet of this kind is essential before any major release and the Hindi Mozilla review team felt the that the review process for Fennec was satisfactory. https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/17485 In the meet it was realized that sharing of ownership gives a sense of responsibility in the new person and it helps enlarge the contributor base, and enhances a sense of collaboration among a bigger network. Karunakar took the responsibilty of managing the Hindi keyboard for FirefoxOS. Ravikant and Vibhas happily agreed to mentor the community and help in translating problematic strings whenever in need. And here is the result: https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:hi-IN#Division_of_Labour Name                                    Owner                            Support Fennac                                         Shahid Farooqui                     Rajesh Ranjan SUMO                                           Ashish / Amit                        Meghraj Suthar/ Ramdayal    Suthar                   Umesh / Shahid the need of holding sprints and agreed to use it in future to overcome lags if any.  The etherpad contains several information that came after pooling together of little known links of dictionaries in available in the public domain Hindi community decied that we will try our best to work on those suggestions. Ravikant and Vibhas Chandra Verma told that they will also support the cause in their own little ways. community if and when called upon. Chandan help was very important in training the localizers. Last but not the least, Shahid Farooqi took the responsibility of filing bugs for budget and related affairs, and was key in coordinating the event. Thanks a lot to Shahid for shouldering this additional responsibility. Page: