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

    June 8th, 2008 by seth bindernagel with Comments Off

    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.