Localizing Firefox 3 and Thunderbird (post 2 in a series of 3)

Ankit Patel is the lead localizer for Firefox and Thunderbird in his native language of Gujarati.  Last year, when Chofmann and I went to India, Ankit was instrumental in helping me set up a productive visit for us.  In his post, he writes about what it took for him to localize Firefox and Thunderbird.

I asked Ankit to write his story for several reasons.  First, he has been a long-time contributor to open source projects and very dedicated to Mozilla.  Additionally, I wanted to showcase the story of a localizer who is creating a translation for a community in a high Internet growth region like India.

In the last post, Friedel, who is a tools developer and translator, wrote about his experience.  This is a bit of a different story about a localizer in a region of growing importance to Mozilla…

Please take a minute to read about Ankit’s efforts.