Natty Community Work Items - Translations

Ubuntu Translations Portal https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-translations-portal https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridge/Rejuvenate Work items for natty-alpha-1: [dpm] Investigate hosting options for a staging site for the portal: DONE [dpm] Investigate existing CMS solutions for a portal, their internationalization support, and write a brief report with the findings: TODO [dpm] Create and set up an ubuntu-translations-portal project in Launchpad for development of the site: TODO [dpm] Create and set up an open ubuntu-translations-portal-discuss group with a mailing list for community discussion purposes: TODO [dpm] Create and set up a moderated ubuntu-translations-portal-drivers group for community participation in the development of the Ubuntu Translations Portal: TODO [dpm] Create and set up a moderated ubuntu-translations-portal-editors team in Launchpad for the core Ubuntu Translations Portal editorial team: TODO [dpm] Create a mockup for the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: TODO [dpm] Deploy a staging site for the Ubuntu Translations Portal from a cloud instance: INPROGRESS [daker] Assist dpm with setting up the Ubuntu Translations Portal infrastructure: TODO Work Items for natty-alpha-2: [dpm] Organize the structure and content of the Ubuntu Translations Portal staging site according to the previously created mockup: TODO [dpm] Aggregate news content in the Ubuntu Translations Portal from translations-related feeds (team coordinators, Fridge, Planet Ubuntu, etc.): TODO [dpm] Apply an Ubuntu-Light-based theme to the Ubuntu Translations Portal staging site: TODO [milo] Create a list of the core translations docs that would need to go on the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: TODO [kelemengabor] Create a set of core docs to be hosted on the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: TODO [knitzsche] Create a document with submission guidelines for: a) user-submitted content and b) site editors: TODO [michael_k] Assist with the Ubuntu Translations Portal content editing of docs, proofreading, life of translator: TODO [dpm] Publish core translations documentation in the Ubuntu Translations Portal: TODO Work Items for natty-alpha-3: [dpm] File a request ticket (RT) for the Canonical IS team to deploy the Ubuntu Translations Portal site: TODO [dpm] Create a list of top-level Ubuntu websites where we should add a link to the Ubuntu Translations Portal: TODO [dpm] Announce the creation of the portal when it is deployed: TODO Language Pack Updates Schedule https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-translations-language-pack-updates-schedule https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/LanguagePackUpdatesSchedule https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/RequestLanguagePackUpdate Work items for natty-alpha-1: [dpm] Schedule a call with ara to discuss the creation of some scripts to explore semi-automating language pack tests: TODO [k-nielsen81] Set up a wiki page template with the agreed language pack schedule (Option C on the spec): TODO [dpm] Contact kate.stewart to see whether we should use the main release schedule calendar or set up a separate one for language pack updates: TODO [dpm] Send an e-mail to kate.stewart with a summary of the points that need to improve during the development release cycle for translations: TODO [k-nielsen81] Set up a calendar feed for the Maverick language pack updates: TODO [k-nielsen81] Create a wiki page for the Maverick language pack updates, with a calendar link: TODO Work items for natty-alpha-2: [dpm] Provide a proof-of-concept mago script to test translations for a given package: TODO [k-nielsen81] Set up a calendar feed for the Lucid language pack updates: TODO [k-nielsen81] Create a wiki page for the Maverick language pack updates, with a calendar link: TODO [k-nielsen81] Set up a calendar feed for the Natty language pack updates: TODO [k-nielsen81] Create a wiki page for the Natty language pack updates, with a calendar link: TODO Work items for natty-alpha-3: [pitti] Update the descriptive text in https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-langpack/+archive/ppa to point to the language pack release schedule: TODO [dpm] Write a document on the wiki describing the procedure for on-demand updates, based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/RequestLanguagePackUpdate: TODO Translations Stories https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-translations-stories Work items for natty-alpha-1: [milo] Create a wiki page with guidelines on how to write a translation story. This should include: suggestions for getting content, links to resources with inspirational content and general guidelines (such as e.g. "include a picture in your article if you can"): TODO [milo] Create a wiki page to keep track of the teams response and published Translations Stories: TODO [dpm] Write an inspirational blog post explaining the Translations Stories effort, and how people can get started writing their Translations Stories, encouraging them to participate: TODO [dpm] E-mail the ubuntu-translators list explaining the Translation Translations Stories effort and encouraging them to participate: TODO [dpm] E-mail local team coordinators directly encouraging them to participate and forward the info to their teams, so that anyone can write an article: TODO Work Items for ubuntu-11.04: [dpm] Publish the Translations Stories on The Fridge until the Ubuntu Translations Portal is up and running: TODO Translations Training Sessions https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-translations-training-sessions Work items for natty-alpha-1: [dpm] Write a blog post post asking the community to - provide feedback on topics they would like to see covered in the translations training sessions, participate in running the sessions: TODO [luis.lopez] Translate the translations training blog post from dpm into Spanish and publish it: TODO [luis.lopez] Translate the translations training blog post from dpm into French and publish it: TODO [yantrashilpi] Translate the translations training blog post from dpm into Kannada and publish it: TODO [mk73628] Translate the translations training blog post from dpm into Greek and publish it: TODO [milo] Create a w.u.c/Translations/Training namespace for all information related to the training sessions: TODO [mk73628] Write a document in the Ubuntu wiki with a list of topics we'd like to cover in the translations sessions: TODO [dpm] Write a document in the Ubuntu wiki with the proposed schedule of the translations training sessions - use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training as a guide: TODO [dpm] Choose a few of the topics for translations training sessions and prepare an outline to run a session for each one of them: TODO [dpm] Create a Launchpad project as a translation playground for translations training sessions: TODO Work Items for ubuntu-11.04: [dpm] Run translations training sessions according to the decided schedule: TODO Translations Introductory Video https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-translations-introductory-video Work items: [dpm] Familiarize with the toolset to create the Ubuntu Translations introductory video: TODO [dpm] Define a set of premises to limit the complexity of the Ubuntu Translations introductory video and record them in the spec: TODO [dpm] Create a high-level storyboard for the Ubuntu Translations introductory video, with section names and length: TODO [dpm] Create detailed storyboard for each one of the sections of the Ubuntu Translations introductory video: TODO [knitzsche] Provide a soundtrack to match the storyboard of the Ubuntu Translations introductory video, provided by dpm: TODO [dpm] Send a call for submission of media content (pictures, videos, etc.) to the community, which shows how and where Ubuntu in native languages is used, or how the community translates Ubuntu (e.g. translation jams): TODO [dpm] Create the intro section of the Ubuntu Translations Introductory video: TODO [dpm] Create the "Who uses Ubuntu in their native language" section of the Ubuntu Translations Introductory video: TODO [dpm] Create the "Community" section of the Ubuntu Translations Introductory video, showing how the community translates Ubuntu: TODO [dpm] Mix all media content to produce the Ubuntu Translations introductory video: TODO