meeting_notes_20111216

Attendees: Peter (Kilgray), Gergely (Kilgray), Gábor (Kilgray), Oliver (Ontram), Sven (Ontram), Micah (Medtronic), Chase (Spartan), and Russ (Welocalize)

Action items

• Publish a new version of the xliff:doc spec by Fri. Dec 23 (Micah)
• Send Alan a note that we'll respond to his Linport questions by Fri. Dec 16 (Chase)
• Send a digest of Linport open items and proposed responses for the group to respond to by Fri. Dec 16 (Chase)
• Respond to Alan with Linport feedback by Fri. Dec 23 (Chase)
• Send suggestions on timing for the next major IN! milestone and firm up the goal by Fri. Dec 23 (Everyone)
• Send out a digest of TIPP open items (task types and multilingual package support) including concerns and proposed solutions for everyone to respond to by Fri. Dec 16 (Chase)
• Resolve TIPP open items by Fri. Dec 23 (Chase)
• Email Welocalize and XTM about getting involved by Fri. Dec 23 (Sven)
• Set up a meeting with a technical sub-group (tool support/implementers) by Fri. Dec 23 (Gergely)
• Brief/ramp up Gergely via a skype meeting by Tues. Dec 20 (Sven)
• Re-send a summary of the web site migration to Google code by Fri. Dec 23 (Russ)
• Send out invites for the next IN! meeting by Fri. Dec 23 (Russ)

Discussed

1. xliff:doc

• Micah will post a new version by Fri. Dec 23
• Will embed versioning details
• Incorporate feedback from Andy and XTM, terminology changes

2. New team members

• Gergely Vandor (Kilgray) joined us!
• He is the Lifecycle Manager and will be implementing support in MemoQ
• Responsible for file formats among many other things

3. Linport

• We need to respond some questions
• Chase will be the main contact
• Alan wants to define the operations for accessing a Linport package as an API
  • We don't have the resources and time to do that, he should tackle separately
• Chase will provide a digest to the group, everyone will help with any feedback required
• Chase will send Alan a quick note to let him know that a response is coming

4. Next major milestone

• Micah would like to target something for spring 2012
• Sven agreed
• Chase suggested trying LocWorld Paris or MemoQ Fest
• Everyone will send suggestions
• LocWorld call for papers ends Jan 9

5. TIPP

• Started a discussion, but stalled
  • Hardcoding task types or make more flexible? E.g., IN! set of supported tasks. Sven good with this approach, original concern was complexity.
• Chase will re-send discussion, everyone will try to get feedback by next Fri. Dec 23
• Chase will send out concerns on multilingual package format, Sven will get up to speed on the topic

6. Implementation

• Get the right people talking about the implementation, smaller sub-group
• Gergely, Ontram engineer, Welocalize (pending a contact), XTM, and Chase
• Gergely will set up a call
• Implementers
  • Sven will email Derek and Smith about Welocalize support, Chase can advise for GlobalSight
  • Sven will email XTM

7. Web site move to Google Code

• Russ will re-send out email for feedback on what to migrate and proposed home page contents

8. Need to get back on a regular meeting schedule

• Next meeting: Fri. Jan 6, 7 am pt
• Send invite to Welocalize and XTM by Fri. Dec 23

9. Gergely ramp-up

• Sven will set up a skype call next week with Gergely, shoot for Mon. Dec 19
• Will take notes for new technical team members in the future