Locale bringup and barriers for entry

[Steven R. Loomis via CLDR-Users]

Hello, and welcome to the new cldr-users members.

For discussion:

At the IUC conference last week, a few of us discussed around lunch some
issues around getting new locales into CLDR, and barriers to entry.

Barriers:
- we discussed that it could be confusing or difficult to collect all of
the data needed for a minimal locale:
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/minimaldata - especially
pluralization data
- what about fonts? keyboards?
- what are the best ways to coordinate efforts between the language users
and different technical experts?

Ideas:
- a web app to take in new locale data?
- a web app to debug/explore plurals?
- allowing some locales to 'get started' without plural rules?

Links for discussion:
- Elnaz and Steven's prez from (last) Monday: https://goo.gl/sN7biw
- My "full stack" blog post:
https://srl295.github.io/2017/06/06/full-stack-enablement/
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