Travel

Yesterday, I embarked on a long journey where I will visit much of the Mozilla community.  By the time I am done, I will interact with about 30 of our localization teams at various conferences where I will be a participant.  Here’s an itinerary for anyone who might be interested in meeting up:

February 6 – 9:  FOSDEM in Brussels with many European localizers and open source developers
February 10 – 11:  Delhi, India for MozDelhi Camp
February 12 – 13:  Kanpur, India for FOSSkriti at ITT Kanpur
February 14 – 15:  Pune, India for GNUify
February 18 – 21:  Beijing, China with a big community event on Saturday, February 21 at the Mozilla office

On my journey through the subcontinent, I will be joined by fellow Mozillan, Arun Ranganathan.  When I separate from Arun, I’ll go to our China office in Beijing to visit Li Gong and the team and to present to the community there.

During our presentations, we will demo several tools for developers and localizers to use to expand their impact, build new community, and drive more mainstream adoption of Mozilla ideas.  It will be a breakneck pace and we are staying with friends along the way in hope to make this trip as leveraged as possible.  Many thanks to Shashank (FOSSkriti) and Harshad (GNUify) for providing me and Arun both transportation and accommodation at their respective conference locations.

My presentation has four sections, designed for easy plug-and-play, depending on the audience.  Here is what I plan to discuss on the quest.

1. Mozilla and Community overview, using localization efforts to illustrate the breadth of Mozilla’s community contribution.  I’ll present some interesting Firefox 3.1 localization participation statistics, including new languages since FF 3.0.
2. New Community tools, demoing Mozilla Community Sites project
3. Improving localization tools, recapping Verbatim, demoing Silme, and discussing new ideas
4. Where do we go next?  L20n demos

I’ll post the slides when they are ready.  They are still in pieces and demos are still being finalized.

Tags: community, Firefox 3.1, FOSDEM, India, l10n, l10n tools, L20n, planet | Categories: India, L20n