Development meeting 2023-08-15

[Michael McMahon]

* Grants (Development/Design)
        * NLnet
                - Ongoing.
                - Review of MoU next meeting.
	* Open Technology Fund - ‘Free and Open Source Software’ Sustainability 
Fund
                - Still looking at it.
        * CZ-US Relation
                - Applied.
        * Be on the lookout for other grant opportunities.

- Speaking (Development/Design)
        - Working on interview for FSF bulletin with Greg.
		- Published! 
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2023/spring/freedom-and-privacy-on-the-web-our-interview-with-the-jshelter-team
        - SECRYPT
                - Talk happened. Also talked about NEL.
		- We were recommended to present findings to Privacy Interest Group 
(PING).
                        - https://www.w3.org/Privacy/IG/
                        - https://github.com/w3cping/tracking-issues/issues
                - Was the talk recorded?

* Manifest V3 (Development)
        * Still no date yet.
        * Working on moving stateful items to stateless.
		- This also will allow JShelter to work on Firefox for Android when 
they open up more extensions at the end of this year.
		- Currently, only a select number of extensions are present in the 
list of available extensions. A collection could be assembled to install 
additional extensions.
			* Could we create a collection of one extension in the meantime to 
give Firefox mobile users an easier way to get JShelter?
                                * 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extended-add-support
				* 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/find-and-install-add-ons-firefox-android#w_expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly

* Usability report (Design)
        * New report in inbox.

* Localization or Internationalization (i18n) (Development/Design)
        * Grammar review
                - With Michael
        * Started looking at i18n patch.
                - Reviewing for optimization.
                - Translating to Czech.
        * Look into software that can help manage translations. List follows.
	* 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Internationalization

* Paper
        * Updated usage graphs, service workers, and new version.
        * Updated version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.01392.pdf

* Blog post ideas
        * Internationalization
        * Web Assembly
        * WEI
		- 
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_environment_integrity_is_an_all_out_attack_on_free_internet
                - We should push for degooglification of everything.

* News
        * Merged the wasm improvements.
                - Would love help testing with Chromium-based browsers.

* Next meeting (Development/Design)
        * Development meetings repeating every two weeks from Jan 31st onward.
        * Next meeting: August 29th


Below are potential tools for collaborating on translations for JShelter:

* Weblate
        * https://weblate.org/en/
        * https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate
* OmegaT (offline)
        * https://omegat.org/
	* 
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/translators-and-free-software-a-practical-introduction-to-omegat/
* Tolgee
        * https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform/
	* 
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/software-localization-translation-of-web-based-projects/
* Fluent
        * https://projectfluent.org/
        * https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent
* Pontoon (Mozilla)
        * https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/
        * https://pontoon.mozilla.org/
* Translate Toolkit
        * https://github.com/translate/translate
        * https://toolkit.translatehouse.org/
* Pootle (Unmaintained)
        * Formerly used by the GNU project.
        * https://github.com/translate/pootle/issues/6920
* Transifex
        * Not self-hostable, but would be gratis for our project.
        * https://www.transifex.com/open-source/
        * Used by NoScript.