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Fedora Kernel and i18n Test Day: PICT College

March 28, 2019 / suprith4989 / Comments Off

Planning

We met for 2 meeting instances to plan this college meetup, once on 30th August 2018 and then again on 3rd September 2018 in Red Hat office. This event was planned as an alternative to the September Fedora Pune Meetup. We decided to do something different this time by executing a recent Fedora 29 test day with a room full of students of Computer department in the PICT college of Pune. Professor Mayur was our point of contact in the college and we had shared the Fedora 29 image under test with him. He ensured students have it installed on their respective systems before the actual test day. Pravin Satpute from Red hat helped us with coordination with the college. Kaushik Banerjee arranged for few Fedora and Red Hat badges to distribute among the attending students. The event took place on Friday, 7th September 2018.

Random contributors of Fedora 25 Translation sprint

Few Contributors of Fedora 25 Translation sprint

Participate in Fedora 26 translation sprint

April 10, 2017 / pravins / 5 Comments

Badge for Fedora 26 Translation sprint

With the great success of our collaboration during Fedora 24 and Fedora 25 to improve localization, this is the time to make it even better for Fedora 26. Since this is the third consecutive sprint, I am sure what more formal introduction is required. Let’s see the details on how to participate.

Details about the Fedora 26 sprint

Date: 11th April to 17th April.
List of priority packages: Translation sprint packages.
IRC: #fedora-g11n

Internationalization test day report for Fedora 25

November 2, 2016 / pnemade / 1 Comment

Like every Fedora release, in preparation for Fedora 25 release, the Globalization Team organized an Internationalization (i18n) Test Day on September 28. It was nice to see that people came from all over the world to participate in this test day event. Since the early morning, internationalization engineers were present in #fedora-test-day and #fedora-g11n channel to help people testing on this day.
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Test Day: Internationalization (i18n) features of Fedora 25

September 28, 2016 / pravins / Comments Off

Internationalization Test Day

Test Day: Internationalization (i18n) features of Fedora 25

We do have a badge for participating!

We have new, interesting i18n features (changes) introduced in Fedora 25. Those are as follows:

Emoji typing – In the computing world, it’s rare to have person not know about emoji. Before, it was difficult to type emoji in Fedora. Now, we have an emoji typing feature in Fedora 25.
Unicode 9.0 – With each release, Unicode introduces new characters and scripts to its encoding standard. We have a good number of additions in Unicode 9.0. Important libraries are updated to get the new additions into Fedora.
IBus typing booster Multilingual support – IBus typing booster started providing multilingual support (typing more than one language using single IME – no need to switch) from Fedora 24, but the UI setup was not ready. Fedora 25 has this ready.

Other than this, we also need to make sure all other languages works well specifically input, output, storage and printing.

How to participate

Most of the information is available on the Test Day wiki page. In case of doubts, feel free to send an email to the testing team mailing list.

Though it is a test day, we normally keep it on for the whole week. If you don’t have time tomorrow, feel free to complete it in the coming few days and upload your test results.

Let’s test and make sure this works well for our users!

Globalization improvements in Fedora 24

August 30, 2016 / pravins / Comments Off

Fedora 24 remained a happening release from the Globalization contributors’ side. There were a number of events including Test Days, translation sprints, bug triaging, and many result-oriented meetings. This post provides outcomes and results from this dedicated efforts from over 50 contributors.

Localization

User Interface

Translated Fedora user interfaces available for the following languages with percentage of translations in brackets.

You’re invited: FOSCo Brainstorm Meeting, 2016-07-18, 13:00 UTC

July 13, 2016 / cwickert / Comments Off

For some time now, Fedora has discussed the idea of the Fedora Outreach Steering Committee (FOSCo), a body to coordinate all our outreach efforts. Now it’s time to make it happen!

FOSCo brainstorming: you’re invited!

On behalf of FAmSCo and the Fedora Council, we would like to invite the Fedora community to an all-hands.

What: FOSCo brainstorm meeting
When: Monday, August 18th at 13:00 UTC
Where: #fedora-council on freenode

Roll call

So far, the following participants have confirmed attendance.

Ambassadors: cwickert, giannisk, gnokii, mailga, potty, tuanta
Council: mattdm
Design: gnokii
Marketing: jflory7
CommOps: jflory7
Websites: mailga
Docs: zoglesby
G11n: noriko

The fact that we already have a good team of volunteers should not stop you from attending. In fact, we would like to hear more voices from all stakeholders. The more, the better! To get an idea what FAmSCo has been working on so far, please have a look at the wiki page and current status.

None of this is set in stone yet, and we feel we need your input before we go any further. We are looking forward to your comments and to meet you next Monday!

Fedora G11n Translation Sprint for Fedora 24

Fedora translation sprint – 5 days, 50 members and 20+ thousand words

April 21, 2016 / pravins / 9 Comments

Starting on April 1st, the Fedora Globalization group ran a 5-day virtual translation sprint to focus on the translation of important GUI packages. During the 5 day sprint, 53 contributors translated 22,723 words over 18 different languages.

Join the G11n team this week to help translate Fedora

Golden chance to translate Fedora 24 in your language

March 31, 2016 / pravins / 4 Comments

Out of the six billion people in the world, only 339 million have English as a first language. The importance of English in global business increases the number of English speakers, but the people learning are taking English on as a second language. A notable number of users prefer products in their own language. Japan is a common example of this.

In the Fedora Globalization (G11n) group, we are making this happen. The efforts are huge, and kudos to all our contributors.If you are a non-English user in Fedora and want to help improve translations in your native language, this is your time to contribute! A virtual Fedora translation sprint is coming up soon for Fedora 24 GUI applications.

Fedora Globalization (G11n) Activity Day – November 2015

December 28, 2015 / pravins / Comments Off

Tokyo view from 40th floor of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office

We already had a number of blog posts regarding how Globalization (G11n) Fedora Activity Days (FADs) went. After all of these reports, it makes sense to have one post discussing the achievements from our Activity Days.

G11n team ends Fedora Activity Day on high note

November 19, 2015 / Justin W. Flory / 3 Comments

Team picture of the Fedora G11n team. Source: pravin-s.blogspot.com.au

On November 1st – 3rd, 2015, the Fedora Globalization (G11n) team held their Fedora Activity Day (FAD) in the Red Hat office in Tokyo, Japan. A Fedora Activity Day is a mini-conference where contributors get together to work on major tasks related to Fedora. The G11n team met with objectives of working on Fedora 24 development plans, brainstorming on a Fedora globalization workflow, and deciding strategy for different Fedora products.

Fedora contributor and member of the G11n team, Pravin Satpute, wrote detailed reports of the happenings over the course of the FAD. You can read his Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 write-ups on his blog.