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Re: [Latingp] Update on outreach in Africa for membership of Latin GP
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017

From: <latingp-bounces(a)icann.org> on behalf of Sarmad Hussain <sarmad.hussain(a)icann.org> Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 7:13 AM To: Latin GP <latingp(a)icann.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Latingp] Update on outreach in Africa for membership of Latin GP Dear All, During the Africa Internet Summit<https://internetsummitafrica.org/>, ICANN organized a day-long IDN Workshop in Nairobi this Sunday to reach out to the African community to explain them the work on Root Zone LGR and to invite the community to participate in the Latin GP work. In the first half of the workshop, we gave an overview of the Root Zone LGR project. Meikal Mumin gave an excellent presentation on the use of Latin script for African languages (and I would suggest that we request him to repeat the presentation during our face to face meeting as it raises some very interested points). > Concur. If slides are available, it would be great to review them ahead of time. In the second part of the workshop, we undertook a hands-on exercise for participants to make the XML based LGR for their own languages using the LGRTool online. We received a lot of interest from the community. The workshop was attended by about 25 participants from varied backgrounds and a quick round of introductions indicated that they spoke 30 different languages. As an upshot we have received interest of a few more volunteers from Africa to actively contribute to the Latin GP. In addition, we have contacts of participants whom we can reach out to in case we have language specific queries. Finally, AFTLD has also indicated that they can help by reaching out to their members. Ousmane, who is a member of Latin GP and attended the workshop, could add more details. Regards, Sarmad

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Latin Variant WG - Session 2
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017

Bill, Michael, Meikal Please answer this doddle poll to schedule the second session next week. I kept the options narrow based on your past preferences. If you need that I expand the date/time slots, please let me know. https://doodle.com/poll/d2h9fa2wynhxqeuh Others are welcome to join but please note that Variant WG members will take precedence when choosing the meeting time. -Best, Dennis

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Agenda for face to face meeting - initial template
by Sarmad Hussain May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017

Dear All, I have developed a template for the agenda and listed some topics for possible discussion. The agenda is available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myKxtzvvdgdK3Va4SvB5TjVG3rL6nJJRgp1… for you to comment on. Regards, Sarmad

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Update on outreach in Africa for membership of Latin GP
by Sarmad Hussain May 30, 2017

May 30, 2017

Dear All, During the Africa Internet Summit<https://internetsummitafrica.org/>, ICANN organized a day-long IDN Workshop in Nairobi this Sunday to reach out to the African community to explain them the work on Root Zone LGR and to invite the community to participate in the Latin GP work. In the first half of the workshop, we gave an overview of the Root Zone LGR project. Meikal Mumin gave an excellent presentation on the use of Latin script for African languages (and I would suggest that we request him to repeat the presentation during our face to face meeting as it raises some very interested points). In the second part of the workshop, we undertook a hands-on exercise for participants to make the XML based LGR for their own languages using the LGRTool online. We received a lot of interest from the community. The workshop was attended by about 25 participants from varied backgrounds and a quick round of introductions indicated that they spoke 30 different languages. As an upshot we have received interest of a few more volunteers from Africa to actively contribute to the Latin GP. In addition, we have contacts of participants whom we can reach out to in case we have language specific queries. Finally, AFTLD has also indicated that they can help by reaching out to their members. Ousmane, who is a member of Latin GP and attended the workshop, could add more details. Regards, Sarmad

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Variant Working Group - Notes 26 May 2017
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 30, 2017

May 30, 2017

Attendees: Dennis, Bill Regrets: Michael, Meikal NOTES: * Reviewed summary of body of knowledge of Latin Variants (for TLDs) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w76ObHKBuhlMh4ajX07M1x9eNSUiCuhHTq9sNza… * Discussed criteria for variants in the Latin script): * IP’s expectation clearly limits the scope of variants for the Latin script. Their views are supported by other past work products (e.g. Considerations in the Use of the Latin Script in Variant Internationalized Top-Level Domains) * Latin GP may recommend that strong similarity review mechanisms are in place when processing gTLD applications in future rounds to minimize delegation of confusable TLDs. * Draft principle 1: Variants in Latin script will be limited to homoglyphs (i.e. code points designed by Unicode to look identical) * Variant WG will be looking at in-script and cross-script variants. * We need to review code point sequences that involve more than one diacritic. * For cross-script variants we will be looking at Cyrillic, Armenian and Greek work. As well as Unicode’s intentional and confusable character lists. Bill will also share a work of his own. Work plan is posted here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UM1WdyMC5HIM3jyu3V75yVFQ0ZndguGV3pAMkeD… END OF NOTES

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Latin GP meetings - 1200 noon UTC Tuesdays - fortnightly
by Sarmad Hussain May 30, 2017

May 30, 2017

How to connect: Link to Adobe Connect: https://participate.icann.org/idn/ *Upon logging into Adobe Connect, a pop up window will provide you the option to Dial Out to your Phone. Enter your Phone Number* (Remember to change the Country Code if needed). After joining the call, as a courtesy to others and the presenters, please MUTE your phone. This can be done by selecting *6 on your keypad. To UNMUTE select *6 again. If you are Unable to log into Adobe Connect and can only join via phone: https://www.myrcplus.com/cnums.asp?bwebid=8369444&ppc=1064158692&num=1-719-… Participant Passcode: 1064158692

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Meeting today? Can't attend
by Meikal Mumin May 30, 2017

May 30, 2017

Dear colleagues, I assume we should have a meeting today, though it is not on my calendar, however if so I can't attend it unfortunately. Could we circulate a new calendar invitation anyhow, so I know when the next one will be? Thanks, Meikal

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Latin Variants working docs
by Tan Tanaka, Dennis May 25, 2017

May 25, 2017

I have updated the work plan for variant group: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UM1WdyMC5HIM3jyu3V75yVFQ0ZndguGV3pAMkeD… and created this summary document with available body of knowledge to facilitate our work https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w76ObHKBuhlMh4ajX07M1x9eNSUiCuhHTq9sNza… -Dennis

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Corrected Minutes - Phone call on May the 16, 2017.
by Mirjana Tasić May 24, 2017

May 24, 2017

Dear colleagues, I did not noted that Hazem Hezzah attended the meeting. Thank you, Hazem, for helping me with attendance. Regards Mirjana --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda 1. Roll call 2. Organization of Repertoire and Variant Group 3. AOB Notes: 1. Roll call: Following GP members were present on the call: Bill Jouris Dennis Tan Fiammetta Caccavale Hazem Hezzah Michael Bauland Nebiye Petek Kurtböke Sarmad Hussain Dennis Tan Meikal Mumin Mats Dufberg Mirjana Tasić 1. Organization of Repertoire and Variant Group After some discussion Variant and Repertoire group were organized: Repertoire group members: * Nebiye Petek Kurtböke(chair) * Ahmed * Fiammetta * Hazem * Meikal * Mats * Mirjana * Ousmane * Tran Canh * Violet Variant group members: * Bill * Denis * Michael * Meikal One week the Group call will be organized, and the other week will be the Panel call. Sarmad will issue doodle poll in order to decide the dates and time for phone calls of the Repertoire group. Also, Panel phone call schedule should be adjusted if necessary. Variant group will agree on their calls schedule by themselves. Variant group will also decide who will lead the group. 1. AOB Sarmad and Mirjana will try to provide draft agenda for Istanbul face to face meeting. [https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png]<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Latingp mailing list Latingp(a)icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/latingp

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Preliminary list of Languages using Latin script with EGIDS=1-4
by Mirjana Tasić May 24, 2017

May 24, 2017

Dear GP members Here we have two links: 1. Preliminary list of Languages using Latin script sorted by EGIDS (only 1-4) and then by ISO 639-3 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YBb7wsy_hjBex6JXSIeJNOeK1KMIjU70pQRqLFR… I have granted access to this table for all GP members 2. Procedure which has been used in measuring the time necessary for processing all letters for one language https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRYCtrgYqcK1USIE4AQ-oc5ypWGGq9Th6i9sHCA… This is the information for people who are new to the group, so they can see how we processed languages in one of the previous steps. Regards Mirjana

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