Meeting setup

• Date: 13.1.2005
• Time: 15.00 Norw. time
• Participants: BG, MP, SNM, TO, TP, TT

Topics:

1. Opening, discussing and accepting the topics
2. UTF-8 conversion
3. Documentation system
4. Lexicon, linguistics
5. Rescheduled project meetings
   1. suggestion: every Monday 10 AM Norw. time
6. New organisation
   1. reality from May 1st
7. “Personalseminar” (whole of Samediggi):
   1. 28.2., 12.00 - 2.3., 12.00
   2. the whole project group should be there

Starting 15.03

1 - Opening, discussing and accepting the topics

Accepted as is.

2 - UTF-8 conversion

• cochise is ready
• writing instr. now on how to convert to newsgroup
• the conversion scripts for in* and output to our web analyser was modified on the UTF-8 branch (earlier digraphs was in the source and UTF-8 input had to be converted, now it is the other way around)
• we are ready to start using UTF-8 (i.e. merge the UTF-8 branch with the HEAD)
• vislcg works fine

DEADLINE:

• conversion to UTF-8 in HEAD is done Friday 14.1.2005, barring that it is OK for Marit. Check-in deadline is thursday 17.00.

3 - Documentation system

• using Forrest (a project documentation system)
• converting the HTML files to XML (Forrest 1.3 DTD)
• reorganising the old doc files into a set of folders, to reduce the crowdedness; hopefully the folders define clear categories
• trying to set up the menus and tabs for the site

DEADLINE:

• Monday 24.1. documentation up and running

4 - Lexicon, linguistics

• Maaren is working all Mondays and Tuesdays on this project
• adding words
• straightened up the adjectival lexicon
• next week: adverbs
• have identified other linguistic problems:
  • what is a correct Sámi form or generalisation?
  • fixing two-level rules (diphtong simplification, others), and check against data
  • Maaren and Thomas will make linguistic generalisation; these generalisations will be turned into rules (Maaren, Thomas, Trond)
• getting constant and helpful feedback from Marit

5 - Rescheduled project meetings

• suggestion: every Monday 10 AM Norw. time
• OK/better for all

DECISION: accepted.

6 - New organisation

• reality from May 1st

7 - “Personalseminar” (whole of Samediggi):

• 28.2., 12.00 - 2.3., 12.00
• the whole project group should be there
• in Alta

8 - Additional topics:

• Trond: Skuvlalinux
  • Pekka has said that the lexicon files can be open-sourced as far as he is concerned.
  • we should be involved with the discussion on the Skuvlalinux list
• Sjur: Pargas seminar
  • Proofing tools seminar
  • Pargas, Finland, 21-22 of April
  • Sjur to forward the e-mail
• Tomi: Sámi place names in Finland
  • the contact person did not want to give a copy
  • Ilmari Mattus is collecting Inari Sámi place names

Summary

• UTF-8 conversion will be done this Friday
• Document. system ready 24.1
• Project meetings now on Monday, next meeting 24.1
• All project members to participate in Alta seminar

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