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Who are we and what we do?

LISA describes globalisation as "the global product development cyc le, where internationalisation includes the planning and preparation stages for a product and localisation the actual adaptation of the product for a specific market.

From Fedora point of view G11n is collaboration effort from different operating groups in Fedora. The main focus is to coordinate and support community in #Internationalization (i18n), #Localization (l10n) and Zanata area to provide effective workflow on Globalisation for Fedora project.

The group members consists of representatives from #Internationalization-i18n, #Localization-l10n and #Zanata. We welcome anyone who are interested as well.

Fedora G11N Committee Proposal

Presentation (Visual Summary)

Contact

Activity

Announcement / News

Upcoming event

Developer Conference 2016

Get involve

Software Globalization is huge domain. Each domain include its peculiarity and jargon's. We have sub-divided each domain as following and more information available in respective wiki pages.

If still doubts?

  • Subscribe to G11N mailing list
  • Introduce yourself in brief and ask your question to g11n@lists.fedoraproject.org.
  • Go through FAQ - TBD

Contributing roles

  • Translator
  • Language lead
  • Mentor
  • Developer/Engineer
    • Base OS i18n, Application level i18n, Zanata
  • Quality Assurance
  • Event Manager

Localization

Localization is more suitable for contributors having any regional language knowledge. It is recommended way to start contributing to Fedora as a translator. Since new contributor know about his language and he just need to learn process in Fedora project. Once he is more familiar with Fedora he can start looking in other opportunities. Link to PraveenA presentation.

For more information, please visit Localization.

Internationalization

Internationalization includes Fonts, Encoding, Locales, CLDR and Input methods. We have number of improvements on the way and its your chance to become part of it.

For more information, please visit Internationalization

Zanata

Open source translation platform used by Fedora and other projects to translate packages and documents. http://fedora.zanata.org/

For more information on Zanata project, please visit http://zanata.org

G11n Forum

- TODO

Offline Meetings

TODO

Top Contributor Board

This list is generated based on active contributors on Bugzilla, mailing list and in meeting.