FOSDEM Planning, calling all localizers
February 6th, 2008 by seth bindernagel
FOSDEM’s coming. I’m going. So are a ton of others.
Why am I going? Primarily to present about the Community Survey Program. We’ve conducted two surveys with over 1,000 responses to each one. Pascal, Stas and I will use this time to present our findings and then I’ll post our presentation here or to Spread Firefox.
The second reason I am going to FOSDEM is to speak with tool developers in the l10n world. We’re bringing together some tool developers like Friedel Wolff from Translate.org.za; Alexandru Szasz from the Narro Project; Gandalf who’s working on a tool; and a number of localizers who have all experienced the painful process of localizing Mozilla. (If it’s not painful for you, my apologies. Please introduce yourself to me because I’d love to meet you, Neo.)
Mic Berman and I will be hosting an off-track BoF at a room we secure at the Novotel in Brussels (room location TBD). If you’re a localizer who’s around from 15:00 - 17:00 on Friday, February 22, and you have interest in talking about and learning about tools, please, please attend. The Novotel is close to where FOSDEM is taking place. I believe this is the spot.
Final reason for going to FOSDEM: to see David Tenser.
Actually, it takes (as far as I can recall) about 40 minutes by bus to get from Novotel Centre Tour Noire to the ULB campus, so whether its “close to where FOSDEM is taking place” depends on your definition of “close”.
Please note the updated Novotel location. My original post gave a different Novotel, but I have updated it.
OK, that one is technically a few hundreds meters closer to the Fosdem area, maybe 35min instead of 40
It’s unfortunate that this meeting hasn’t been announced earlier, as most of our team members will only arrive in Brussels around 18:00. But some of us will be there, at least.
Nitpick: that will be “Translate.org.za” of course (.za is the domain for South Africa) which is the website for our South African localisation project. The site on SourceForge that is linked to is our tools project (in case it matters). Looking forward to FOSDEM!
That would be Translate.org.za
I’m sad that I won’t be there this time, but Translate.org.za will be well represented by Friedel Wolff and since he actually leads the coding on the Translate Toolkit and on Pootle he’s the man.
Have fun… and I hope we can help reduce that pain even more.
Oh no… I will be at Brussels-Midi at 17:00… So no chance to attend
And it would be an interesting talk for me, because I’m also working on my own l10n-tool (I’m already using it for automatic build of new SeaMonkey 1.x pl-PL releases, based on the translation of a previous release).
Lets see if there is a chance to catch an earlier train…