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While I will not be able to help with any of the coding I do want to say that I believe this can be a great boost for UA.
<div class="">When tools (and libraries) are readily available UA can be added to projects without adding significant cost. <br class="">
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<div class="">On 22 Sep 2016, at 20:08, Don Hollander <<a href="mailto:don.hollander@icann.org" class="">don.hollander@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The IETF is regularly running two day Hackathon at its meeting and another is scheduled for its next gathering in Korea later this year.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I’ve prepared the attached draft as a potential project for their Hackathons.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The IETF makes use of many open source tools to run their organisaton. Registrations, mailing lists, etc. The tools are NOT UA/EAI ready. You can’t, for example, register with an IDN email address – I know because
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The IETF is aware of this and would like to remedy the situation. And, once the tools that they use are made UA/EAI ready, then they will be in the public domain.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The attached is a proposal for either their Hackathon or their Code Sprints.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The goal here is to start small and see how the process might work. And, of course, get the IETF’s toolsets working.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I would welcome those who are familiar with the IETF or with Hackathon’s or otherwise geeky to review and provide comments by early next week.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I’ll then synthesize comments and submit to the IETF’s Hackathon folks.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="cid:84C33068-E5E3-429C-B72F-4CF1F31A0925"><IETF Hackathon Project.pdf></span></div>
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