Jesper Kristensen recently created a spreadsheet of the tools available to Mozilla localizers. The document can be found by following this link.
I found this summary to be very valuable because Jesper asks a lot of great questions about each tool.  He then formatted the responses to allow for a visual comparison of the tools.  The [...]

Abdulkadir Topal is the lead localizer for Mozilla in German.  As many of you know, Germany is a country where Firefox has some of its highest marketshare.  (The XiTi monitor study from March, 2008 claims that the marketshare is at 35%.)  It’s probably not too far of a stretch to say this, but our success [...]

Recently, I’ve been interviewing candidates for a community/marketing role that will work directly with the Mozilla community in Europe. It’s been a really interesting process that I think is worth discussing.
The biggest challenge that I have had when interviewing these candidates is trying to find out how the potential hire will interact with our [...]

Last year, Chris Hofmann and I participated in Net Squared’s annual conference as judges of a challenge that awarded various social enterprises leveraging technology and the Web to create social change.  Frank Hecker from Mozilla Foundation also supported the conference by providing some funding.  You might remember that Miro (who was at that time changing [...]

On Friday, February 22, we hosted a Birds of a Feather conversation about localization tools.  I had blogged a bit about the event leading up to the day and was very please to see that we had over 20 people show up to the meeting.
The format was pretty simple.  I introduced the team and what [...]

I received a note from one of our student teams in India who volunteered to do market research for us.  If you remember, I blogged about Team 21 from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadebad and the research they did about marketing Firefox in India.  For their hard work, they “won the best industrial project [...]

Zak Greant visited Mozilla yesterday and it was really good to catch up with him over lunch.  Among other things that he is working on, Zak has been speaking at conferences about the importance of open source software, net neutrality, and the long-term implications of not promoting each of these ideas.
He’s written an interesting abstract [...]

The past month has been busy for me with distributing stuff through the Community Giving/Empowerment program.  Here is a list of what we have done.

Philipp Kewisch, who is our first participant in the Community Loan Program.  He is helping on the Calendar project.  Philipp has been a critical member to the team and figured out [...]

FOSDEM’s coming.  I’m going.  So are a ton of others.
Why am I going?  Primarily to present about the Community Survey Program.  We’ve conducted two surveys with over 1,000 responses to each one.  Pascal, Stas and I will use this time to present our findings and then I’ll post our presentation here or to Spread Firefox.
The [...]

Some time ago, Shaver and I had a discussion about adding a new focus to our community giving/empowerment efforts.  (n.b. To be clear, this was in addition to the new community loan program I mentioned in an earlier post.)  In this post, I’d like to take some time to describe just where we are headed [...]