This presentation gives brief information about different parts of G1!N and explains active developments plan for Fedora 24.

1. Fedora Globalization
Pravin Satpute, Mike Fabian
Presenting
Twitter: @prravins, @mfabian1963
Development activities

2. Today's Topics
G11N with Fedora
Quick walk through
Internationalization (I18N)
Localization (L10N)
Zanata
Fedora Language testing group (FLTG)
Development activities for F24 and ahead

3. Globalization
Widely used term
Economic, Markets, Business…
In Fedora terms
Its strategic collaboration of Localization,
Internationalization, Zanata and Fedora
Language Testing group.

4. Need?

5. Core I18N
Encoding standards (Unicode, ISO., SJIS)
Input methods
Fonts & Rendering
Locales, Sorting..

6. Application I18N
Internationalized application
Gettext
PO files
Sometime strings not available for L10N

7. Localization
Translation from English to Target language.
Around 80+ teams in Fedora
GUI
Docs
Websites
Magazine

8. Zanata
Translation management framework.
Emerged as a translation platform of a choice.
Fedora, OpenStack and many more coming.
Many feature and more collaboration with
Fedora.

9. FLTG
Fedora Language Testing group.
Need language knowledge.
Planning and Organizing language testing.

10. Glibc Sub-packaging
Lead: Mike
Who needs it?
Minimal Installation
Two approaches
Sub-dir
locale-archive database
Test packages:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mfabian/glibc/

11. ITS for Gnome
W3C Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)
Allows to translate XML documents using PO
files.
Shaun has developed ITS tool.
Daiki is adding ITS support in gettext.

12. DNF Langpacks
Already in used but need few more api from
DNF.
Creating language spins for languages.
Glibc Packaging.
Anaconda installations.
Change proposal: Langpacks Installation With
RPM Weak Dependencies for F24.
Lead: Parag Nemade

13. Auto Testing
I18N and L10N.
Time and resource constraints.
GTK IMs, missing translations in UI, font
coverage.
Lead: Akira Tagoh

14. String breakage
Package updates after string freeze.
Few strings remains untranslated.
Tracking package builds?
Upstream git repo?
Lead: Jens Petersen, Akira Tagoh

15. Badges for contributors
Zanata is FedBus is not connected yet.
L10N can get badges based on translations.
Even reviewers can get badges.
Lead: Alex Eng

16. Thank You !!
Contact:
Email: pravins@fedoraproject.org
Emai: mfabian@fedoraproject.org
Freenode: pravins, mfabian

17. References
Statsilk graph:
http://www.statsilk.com/maps/language-distribution-interactive-world-map
Why G11N? http://www.slideshare.net/pravinds/pravins-fuelgiltconf2014
Glibc Subpackaging:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Glibc_locale_subpackaging
Langpacka Change proposal:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LangpacksInstallationWithRPMWeakDepend
encies
ITS Tool: http://itstool.org/
String Brekage Monitoring: https://fedorahosted.org/i18n/ticket/59
Funny video link: https://goo.gl/2xpMCj