• L10n in 2010

    November 19th, 2008 by seth bindernagel with 3 comments »

    Amidst all that is going on in our day-to-day related to Mozilla localization, one of the most important things we can do is to think about the future.  It’s about this time each quarter that I start to think about the goals for next quarter.  What can we do better and where should we focus?  Stepping away to do that can be challenging when so much is going on.  My hope is that the l10n community will create its goals together for the next quarter.  We’ll start that ambitious exercise soon…

    …even more ambitious is the undertaking of Mozilla’s chief lizard wrangler.   You may have seen Mitchell’s post about the 2010 goal setting process.  Mozilla is really trying to push the envelope when it comes to inclusiveness and distributed authority.  And, we want everyone in the l10n community to have a chance to provide his or her input on the vision of Mozilla for 2010.  When you think of the localization community in the future, what do you envision?

    Mitchell lists the following Mozilla-wide goals:

    1. Deepen Mozilla’s role as a centerpiece of the Internet

    • communities continue to expand and provide means for individual development
    • thought leadership expands to include things such as the open web, hybrid social enterprises, organizational sustainability, shared decision-making, individual control, and portability in Internet life
    • innovations emerge from the Mozilla world
    • technology excellence and industry wide leadership continues
    • projects and products remain vital

    2. Data:  provide leadership in

    • helping people exercise better ownership and control over their data
    • making anonymous, aggregate “usage data” more of a public resource

    3. Mobile

    • have an effective product in the mobile market
    • demonstrate that “mobile” is part of one, unified, open web

    4. Continue Firefox mindshare and marketshare momentum

    What are your thoughts?  As you read these, what do you think as they relate to what you are doing inside l10n?  How would you change these goals?  What do you like?

    Please comment on this post.  I will respond to everyone’s comments, so this is not a one-way post and response.  Let’s disuss it here.  Any thoughts?  Don’t hold back, let’s hear what you have to say.  :)