Firefox Mongolian Direct Outreach

Over the past couple Firefox releases, the Mozilla community has proudly shipped a Mongolian localization of Firefox.  And, based on the blocklist pings that Firefox makes everyday, we can estimtate that we have between 10,000 and 20,000 active daily users in that locale.  That’s a nice accomplishment by the Mongolian community!

However, as we ramp up our efforts to localize Firefox 3.6, and a mobile Firefox, we have been reaching out to our “mn” community leader, Natsagdorj (Nagi) Shagdar, but have had no response to the emails we have sent.  I guess it’s an inevitability to have some turnover when a 100% volunteer community rallies together to ship Firefox in over 70 languages.  Building sustainable communities is critical to our ongoing success and something we take very seriously.

Therefore, this is an open blog post to reconnect with our Mongolian team in order to make sure everything is OK and receive a status update on the work/team going forward.  It would be terrific to receive an email from Nagi or others to let me know how to proceed with work on the mn locale.

This post serves a secondary purpose because we also would like to invite any others interested in joining the Mozilla Mongolian community to contact us.  We are looking for community members to help take up some of the localization effort so we don’t lose all that we have accomplished with the mn version.  Plus, we don’t want to let down thousands of our Mongolian users who will be looking for the latest and greatest when Firefox 3.6 comes out.

If you have interest in joining the community or know of anyone who might help in some capacity (even with simple referrals), then contact me through the comment section of this blog.  We have a robust set of community members and tools that makes localization easy and fun.

As a matter of fact, we are welcoming all newcomers, so just ping me.  Thanks, everyone!

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