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Meeting Minutes

Monday, 2013 July 5th, 6:00 pm UTC

Proposed Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • translations
    • recordings
  3. course editor & trainer progress
    • GHNS implementation (ready to merge?)
    • training mode
  4. progress user documentation
  5. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendees: ...

Monday, 2013 July 29th, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • translations
    • recordings
  3. course editor & trainer progress
    • GHNS implementation
  4. progress user documentation
  5. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendees: Andreas, Oindrila, Magda, samikshan

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
    • Oini:
      1. recording problem fixed
      2. outline for user documentation: https://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/Artikulate/Todo#Proposal_for_User_Documentation
      3. created script to get all the phrases from a course and preprocess translation
    • Konki:
      1. was working on GHNS implementation for courses distribution: it works ok, but not perfectly yet
    •  Andreas
      1. the KDE on Windows guys are getting ready to make Artikulate usable on Windows
      2. Dimitris sent a new heap of Greek recordings \o/
    • samikshan says hello!
  2. course data progress
    • this week Bengali will probably get completed
    • Greek makes great progress
    • we will write more calls for "standard foreign learning languages", first is American English (Oindrila will write blog post)
  3. course editor & trainer progress
    • GHNS implementation nearly working: noticed that sometimes deleting/uninstalling the course does not work
    • implementation similar to KLettres
    • we will look into the question how to integrate GHNS better into our interface
  4. progress user documentation
    • Oini presents her plan
    • everybody likes the plan
    • Oini will create the wiki pages and ping us when she needs any help/input/texts/review
  5. miscellaneous
    • nothing misc

Tuesday, 2013 July 23rd, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • Translations
    • Recordings
  3. course editor & trainer progress
  4. progress user documentation
  5. contributor recruiting
  6. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendees: Andreas, Magda, Oindrila, Myriam

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
    • Magda
      • was working on python script that gets files from artikulate-data repository and it is almost finished (some small changes needed)
      • lots of research about GHNS
    • Oindrila:
      • internet problems, working on fixing recording
    • Andreas
      • two BoFs about Personas for Langauge Learning and contributing to Artikulate
      • recruited several helpers: Italian, American English, (probably Spanish, need some more pokes), Greek (though Dimitris appeared by himself!)
      • reimplemented the training mode
      • changed course data loading to loading on demand (resource-manager will be re-factored in the not so far future...)
      • put the course files that Magda's script creates to files.kde.org/edu/artikulate
  2. course data progress
    • same state as last week
    • plus two new units in Greek
  3. course editor & trainer progress
    • everybody: please test!
    • next week, also involve the usability people for trainer UI
  4. progress user documentation
    • will discuss it next week
  5. contributor recruiting
    • we will post blogs and specifically ask for some languages
    • we already heard from several people that they want to help
  6. miscellaneous

Monday, 2013 July 15st, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • Skeleton work
    • Translations
  3. course editor progress
  4. progress contributor documentation
  5. Akademy contributor recruiting
  6. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendees: Andreas, Magda, Oindrila

  1. Reports
    • Oindrila:
      • finished all units
      • created Hindi Course
      • Bengali Course will be done by this week
    • Magda
      • Added recording for female polish speaker for 8 units and for french male speaker for 2 units
      • Translated 8 units into french
      • added screenshots to current contributor manual
    • Andreas
      • created release
  2. course data progress
    • basic course skeleton: done
    • good progress
    • Andreas will add working statistics to course editor (number of missing recordings...)
  3. Course editor progress
    • Andreas has some plans...
      1. allow to change the backend (Qt Multimedia, what is currently used, is not available everywhere)
      2. introduce a backend that can also easily be built in Windows (Simon-lib)
      3. by default change to Simon-lib which has an awesome set of internal tools that make recordings "better" (automatic noise removal, normalization...)
      4. reenable the training mode the next weekend
    • Andreas creates sketch for GHNS implementation, compiles a list of starting points for Magda
  4. Contributor Documentation
    • Contributor documentation: done
    • next week: talk about user documentation
    • Oini drafts structure for user documentation
  5. Contributor Recruiting
    • slides are done
    • let's see how many people will show up
  6. Misc
    • nothing

Monday, 2013 July 8st, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • Skeleton work
    • Translations
  3. course editor progress
  4. progress contributor documentation
  5. Akademy contributor recruiting
  6. miscellaneous

Notes

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
    • Magda:
      • nearly finished translating basic skeleton into Polish (one unit left)
      • added some recording for male polish speaker (Time and Dates, Alphabet, Numbers, Weather, Countries and cultures, Sport and Tourism
      • translated two units into French (Numbers and Alphabet)
      • filled in gaps in the contributor manual and general cleaning
    • Oindrila:
      • skeleton units: only "at a party" remains undone
      • six units translated into Bengali
    • Andreas:
      • several editor fixes
  2. course data progress
    • schedule says, we should be done this week
    • only two units remain
    • adjusted schedules a little bit
    • Andreas will create overview table about current translation state
  3. course editor progress
    • release targetted to Thursday/Friday
    • Andreas will create blog post after release
  4. progress contributor documentation
    • nearly finished \o/
    • put skeleton creation by UI button as Wishlist bug to bugs.k.o and point documenation to it
    • else contributor documentation should be done
    • Magda will add screenshots
    • everybody proof reading please!
  5. Akademy contributor recruiting
    • Andreas prepares slides and sends them around this week
    • everybody blogs :)
  6. miscellaneous
    • Andreas will add "dismiss" button for phrases (skeleton phrases that explicitly are not part of a unit)

Monday, 2013 July 1st, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. course data progress
    • Skeleton work
    • Translations
  3. editor progress
  4. progress contributor documentation
  5. Akademy contributor recruiting
  6. tasks until next meeting
  7. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magda, Mamarok, (Oindrila excused)

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
    • Magda:
      • added Polish phonology and created a Polish and French course
      • translated some units into Polish: Weather, Sport, Countries and Cultures,Toursim and Family
      • worked on the contributor manual: so now almost all subsections have some information
    • Andreas:
      • scheduled some BoFs for Akademy: general KDE Edu meeting, Persona discussion for language learning programs, Artikulate contributor recruiting
      • fixed several small bugs at Artikulate
      • did some small UI cleanup at the course editor
      • figured out that we already can have different phrase types in skeleton and course
    • Oindrila:
      • finished several courses
  2. course data progress
    • Skeleton work
      • slightly ahead of schedule
    • Translations
      • about 5 units already translated into Polish
      • Magda will soon start making recordings
  3. editor progress
    • next meeting: list of remaining blockers for a contributor release
  4. progress contributor documentation
    • a lot of progress
    • everybody: please review the texts
  5. Akademy contributor recruiting
    • BoF scheduled
    • Andreas will discuss with Oindrila how to plan that hour
    • Andreas will prepare release of contributor preview of Artikulate
  6. miscellaneous
    • high priority is contributor manual
    • we need a logo!

Monday, 2013 Juni 24th, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. progress in skeleton work
  3. progress contributor documentation
  4. courses:
    1. translations
    2. gathering recordings strategy
  5. www.flossie.org
  6. Akademy contributor recruiting
  7. Trainer UI
  8. tasks until next meeting
  9. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

  1. Task Review/Reports
    • Magda:
      • added three more units: Entertainment, At the Doctors and At the supermarket
      • edited the techbase to create a manual incorporating the existing instruction into it
    • Andreas:
      • fixed open file handlers bug
      • started work at recording indicator
    • Oindrila:
      • Lydia replied saying that she will let her know more about the Student Programs Presentation
  2. progress in skeleton work
    • Magda finished all her units
    • Oindrila will add her units the next days
  3. progress contributor documentation
    • already quite good
    • discussed minor improvements
  4. courses: translations & gathering recordings strategy
    • Magda started with translating to Polish and French
    • we must respect that if a phrase is a word in one language, in another it can be an expression/sentence: Andreas will make changes to allow different set values
    • we should not aim to make word-by-word translations but try to give each phrase a most similar meaning in the translated language
    • we should translate the skeletons trying to keep similar structure, but if not we are able to change words into phrases, maybe phrases to sentences, etc.
    • try to have same amount of male as of female recordings
    • rule of thumb: speaker records every second sound
  5. www.flossie.org
    • Oindrila will prepare proposal
  6. Akademy contributor recruiting
    • skip, since no BoF call out yet
  7. Trainer UI
    • can we allow the specific choice of speakers for a training? (Andreas checks what would be necessary to implement that)
  8. Misc
    • Andreas will make changes to allow different phrase type in skeleton and course

Monday, 2013 Juni 17th, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. progress in skeleton work
  3. progress contributor documentation
  4. Akademy contributor recruiting
  5. Trainer UI mockups
  6. tasks until next meeting
  7. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
    • Magda:
      • new units added to course skeleton: Weather, Time and Dates and Clothing
      • skeleton for contributor manual created
    • Oindrila: added descriptions to the CourseData wiki
      • Artikulate/Events page created
      • mailed Jeff and Lydia about the Student Programs Presentations and the Bof
      • created Hindi Phonology
    • Andreas: created Trainer UI Mockup
  2. progress in skeleton work
    • progress looks good, everything still as predicted by the schedule :)
  3. progress contributor documentation
    • Magda will start merging existing documentation to the new structure
    • we will talk next week about distributing documentation tasks
  4. Akademy contributor recruiting
    • we want to have a BoF at the Akademy
    • we should get in touch with local KDE communities (Spain, France)
    • discussion point for BoF is how to handle different accents
    • the [Marble/VoiceOfMarble Voice of Marble] project could give interesting ideas
  5. Trainer UI mockups
    • positively received
    • Andreas will sketch implementation plan for this until next meeting
  6. tasks until next meeting
    • only the ones from above
  7. miscellaneous
    • none

Monday, 2013 June 10rd, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. review tasks from last week/reports
  2. progress in skeleton work
  3. discuss structure for contributor documentation
  4. plans for Akademy contributor recruiting
  5. tasks until next meeting
  6. miscellaneous

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

  1. Reports
    • Magda:
      • added blog to planetKDE
      • created developer account
      • added 4 new units: Weather, Sport, Family, and Countries and cultures
      • added recordings for British English
      • drafted plan for contributor handbook
    • Oindrila
      • working on Hindi phonology
      • added blog to planetKDE
    • Course overview has new column
    • work at course editor
  2. Course Skeleton Progress
    • progress is good!
    • Newly finished: Weather, Sport, Family, and Countries
    • we update the course planning page with unit descriptions
  3. Contributor Documentation
    • Magda presents concept (now at wiki)
    • contributor documentation will be at techbase
    • we will start creating stub pages for the main topics
    • major part must be finished until Akademy
  4. Akademy Event
    • Oindrila will ask Jeff about lightning talks for GSoC students
    • we will organize a BoF to talk about how to contribute courses
    • course editor, basic course skeleton and contributor documentation must be finished (and tested) for this
  5. ToDos
    • all: add unit descriptions to planning page
    • Oindrila: add Akademy event concept to wiki
    • Magda: create pages for contributor documenation
    • Andreas: create mockup for new traning screen
  6. Misc
    • nothing

Monday, 2013 June 3rd, 6:00 pm UTC

Agenda

  1. discuss proposed unit list
  2. project responsibilities for OPW/GSoC 2013
  3. milestones for OPW/GSoC 2013
  4. promotion (subscribe to planet.kde.org, etc.)
  5. workflows/technical stuff:
    • usage of reviewboard
    • creating developer accounts
  6. tasks until next meeting

Notes

Attendants: Andreas, Magdalena, Myriam, Oindrila

  1. Units
    • overall look OK
    • "Emergency" unit will cover natural calamity, theft, accident (but not medical)
    • "Proverbs" will not be included in basic course skeleton, but moved to list of "interesting topics" (reason: proverbs differ too much even for simliar languages)
    • Oindrila will add column "Descriptions" to course list and we all will add some details what the units will be about
  2. Coordination Responsibilities
    • Learner UI & Feedback mechanisms: Oindrila
    • Course Distribution & Course Integrity Checks: Magdalena
    • Languages:
      • Bengali (Oindrila)
      • Hindi (Oindrila)
      • French (Magdalena)
      • Polish (Magdalena)
      • American English (Andreas)
    • Documentation
      • Contributor Part: Magdalena
      • End User/Learner: Oindrila
  3. Milestones
    • look OK
    • will discuss again next week and check if time points seem reasonable
  4. Organization
    • Oindrila and Magdalena will register blogs at planet.kde.org
    • Magdalena will request KDE contributor account
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