Ever wonder how to create a language pack?  Here is a video from Ricardo Meza from our Mexican community describing how to do it….in just over 7 minutes.
The video is in Spanish, so if you don’t speak it, you’ll have to get some help.  Ricardo sent it to me last night after we chatted for [...]

Check out this tool from Pike.  He calls it the l10n dashboard.  It’s a great snapshot into the state of Mozilla l10n community.  I’d say it’s a work in progress with a way to go, but so far, it’s very well put together.
As our team tries to improve efficiency and outreach/service to localizers in our [...]

Rajesh Ranjan is one of our lead localizers in India.  Aside from working to complete the Hindi translation of Firefox, Rajesh does a lot of community organizing and outreach to open source enthusiasts around localization efforts.
He recently held a workshop to disuss a new effort called FUEL:  Frequently Used Entries for Localization.  Rajesh describes FUEL [...]

Danishka is our lead Sinhala localizer in Sri Lanka.  In addition to creating a localized version of Firefox 3, he’s been doing some great evangelizing about Mozilla in his home country.  Check out this video on Swarnavahini News.  (If you don’t understand Sinhala, this video is gonna be rough.  But, you’ll still see some noticeable [...]

Last week, a subset of the l10n-drivers team met in Paris (my pics are coming) to discuss many things related to l10n, including a review of goals that had been set last November before the lead-up to the release of Firefox 3.  The goals were ambitious and listed many ways in which the team could [...]

A good buddy of mine, Jay, sent me the following picture, beaming with pride to have participated in Download Day.

Way back in the day, Jay and I hung out together in Washington D.C.  We had a pretty tight crew of people who were all inspired and working in D.C. for members of the U.S. Congress [...]

You may have noticed in the past few months that I have been writing more and more about Mozilla l10n and our tools development process.
In addition, over the last two weeks, I’ve set up a handful of meetings with localizers from several Indic languages who have been poking us to find out what they need [...]