Comments on: How do we scale the Mozilla localization community? http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/06/05/how-do-we-scale-the-mozilla-localization-community/ localization and community at mozilla Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: seth bindernagel http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/06/05/how-do-we-scale-the-mozilla-localization-community/comment-page-1/#comment-141565 seth bindernagel Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:00:22 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/?p=474#comment-141565 Friedel: You make an excellent point. I think there is probably a bit of the network effect here: people everywhere see more and more of Firefox due to its growth. So what causes that growth? Probably not the localization. It's probably growing because it is a fast, secure, and customizable browser that is free to download. Our developer community's pursuit to be cutting edge and excellent helps that groundswell spread to new locales. We're just here to try to make localization a bit easier, and we're getting a little bit better at that. :) Friedel: You make an excellent point. I think there is probably a bit of the network effect here: people everywhere see more and more of Firefox due to its growth. So what causes that growth? Probably not the localization. It’s probably growing because it is a fast, secure, and customizable browser that is free to download. Our developer community’s pursuit to be cutting edge and excellent helps that groundswell spread to new locales. We’re just here to try to make localization a bit easier, and we’re getting a little bit better at that. :)

]]> By: F Wolff http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/06/05/how-do-we-scale-the-mozilla-localization-community/comment-page-1/#comment-141561 F Wolff Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:35:01 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/?p=474#comment-141561 Congratulations on the article, Seth. I would mention another issue about scaling to this size: the quality of the product. If Firefox was an obscure browser with few people interested in it, you would not be writing that article :-) So is the popularity due to the localisation, or the localisation due to the popularity? That might be open for discussion, but I don't think they are entirely separate issues. If things go well, we will be able to add some more African languages during the release cycle of Firefox 3.5 - a few million people more served in their own language :-) Congratulations on the article, Seth. I would mention another issue about scaling to this size: the quality of the product. If Firefox was an obscure browser with few people interested in it, you would not be writing that article :-)

So is the popularity due to the localisation, or the localisation due to the popularity? That might be open for discussion, but I don’t think they are entirely separate issues.

If things go well, we will be able to add some more African languages during the release cycle of Firefox 3.5 – a few million people more served in their own language :-)

]]> By: Tristan http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/06/05/how-do-we-scale-the-mozilla-localization-community/comment-page-1/#comment-141526 Tristan Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:29:40 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/?p=474#comment-141526 Good article, really (and yes, Pascal and Axel do rule! You really have a kick-ass team!) Good article, really (and yes, Pascal and Axel do rule! You really have a kick-ass team!)

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