The L10n Team at Mozilla

Recently, the Localization team has made a few changes to the team that are worth noting.

Simon Paquet (IRC nick sipaq) will be leading up nearly all communication about localization efforts for Thunderbird.  Technological questions will also be fielded by Simon and his team, but Axel and the l10n-drivers will remain a very strong support network for any questions that need help.  Nothing changes in how localizers should expect to communicate though…please point questions to the dev-l10n mailing list.

Zbigniew Braniecki (IRC nick gandalf) has joined the l10n-drivers team and will be helping with several things, including developing Silme; supporting localizers by providing code reviews, creating patches, and checking in code; building community with tools like the Community Pack; and being another outlet to ping with all questions.  Gandalf has a long history as a localizer and understands deeply the Mozilla process.  He should be a great compliment to Axel’s hard work and knowledge of just about everything Mozilla l10n.

Staś Małolepszy (IRC nick stas) also joined the l10n-drivers team.  He will be taking over all web services and productization elements of the localization process for Firefox.  Additionally, he will be supporting localizers with code review, creating patches, and checking in code.  He’s also running Mozilla Community Survey program, so we hope to use his talents there to continue to learn more and more about our community.  Staś will also support Pascal Chevrel and our community with the localization of web parts that are included in Firefox.  Staś had his beginnings as a localizer and deeply understands the Mozilla process.  He’ll help with our efforts to make everything run as best and as transparent as possible.

Adrian Kalla has joined Mozilla for a few months as a localization intern hacking on Silme with Gandalf and Axel.  Like Gandalf and Staś, Adrian is a localizer who has a great grasp of our localization process.  We’re excited to have him around for the next few months.

Mic Berman (IRC nick mic) will be moving on from Mozilla.  We are so thankful for all her contributions in helping to guide fully localized releases for Firefox over the past couple years.   Please do send along any thanks and praises to Mic if you’d like.  We are thankful for her service to the Mozilla community.  Thanks, Mic!

As always, please ping us with questions.  Firefox 3.1 Beta is approaching quickly and we are eager to help all localizers with questions.  We want to have a fully localized beta, so if you are a localizer, please let us know what you need to make that happen.