Development meeting 20230829

[Michael McMahon]

* Grants (Development/Design)
    * NLnet
        - Ongoing.
        - We reviewed current status of MoU.
    * 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)
    - 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?

* Progress on reported bugs (Development/Design)
    * Priority issues 
https://pagure.io/JShelter/webextension/issues?status=Open&priority=20&close_status=
    * Webworker discussion

* Manifest V3 (Development)
    * Still no date yet.
    * Working on moving stateful items to stateless.

* Localization or Internationalization (i18n) (Development/Design)
    * 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
    * https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/js-shield/2023-08/msg00002.html
    * https://github.com/joelspadin/webextension-plural
    * We have a version with English and Czech translations.
    * Started writing a blog post about it helping how to translate the 
extension to other languages.
    * Reviewed translation tools. 
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/js-shield/2023-08/msg00001.html
    * We will try Weblate gratis plan for libre projects.
    * Russian translation patch. Some strings are missing and some are 
outdated. We will add it to weblate and see if we can get more eyes on it.


* Blog post ideas
    * Internationalization
    * Web Assembly
    * WEI
    - 
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_environment_integrity_is_an_all_out_attack_on_free_internet


* News
    * Upcoming version will include wasm and i18n updates.

* Next meeting (Development/Design)
    * Development meetings repeating every two weeks from Jan 31st onward.
    * Next meeting: September 12th