John O’Duinn, Armen Gasparnian, and the rest of Mozilla’s build team should be very proud of their latest accomplishment.  I am rechanneling a bit from joduinn who will blog in more detail later.  But, this morning, they’ve made the l10n-build system capable of doing multiple repacks at one time.  John also tells me that the [...]

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 [...]

Check out this tool from Pike.  He calls it the l10n dashboard.  It’s a great snapshot into the state of Mozilla l10n community.  I’d say it’s a work in progress with a way to go, but so far, it’s very well put together.
As our team tries to improve efficiency and outreach/service to localizers in our [...]

You may have noticed in the past few months that I have been writing more and more about Mozilla l10n and our tools development process.
In addition, over the last two weeks, I’ve set up a handful of meetings with localizers from several Indic languages who have been poking us to find out what they need [...]

Spanish localizer, Guillermo López (IRC nick: willyaranda), pinged me this morning on IRC, pointing me to a post he wrote about his experience localizing Firefox 3.
willyaranda is the browser module owner for es-ES and, along with other members of the Spanish team like Ricardo Palomares, is responsible for that localization.  Great work and thank you!
Also [...]

Passing this along to Planet for anyone who wants to participate in a bug day with Translate.org.za.
Hallo everybody:
The Translate project will be having a bug day on Friday 20 June. We want to invite people to join us in testing, fixing, documenting, and enjoying our tools and discussing some ideas. Many of you might now [...]

Last month, Mozilla approved a grant to the software localization organization Translate.org.za (Translate) to help improve their Translate Toolkit.  We did this because Mozilla and Translate’s missions are very well aligned, as both organizations are motivated by promoting openness and opportunity on the Internet.  Because so many Mozilla (and FOSS) localizers use Translate’s software, we [...]

Maybe you’ve noticed, but our Evangelism team and many others have written blog posts about the efforts that have gone into the development of Firefox 3.  For instance, you may have seen posts from the following people:

Deb Richardson who has been blogging about the amazing new features in Firefox;
Mark Finkle blogging about Firefox 3 Parental [...]

I hope you don’t mind for just verbing the word “planet”…
but, I forgot to tag my last three blog posts so that they showed up on planet.  I think the new Word Press interface overwhelmed me, leaving me a bit clumsy.
Here are the links with quick descriptions:

A post from May 12 about the Screencast Contest…please [...]

I’d like to point everyone to a set of screencasts available for download on the l10n server.  These videos demonstrate the functionality of Translate.org.za’s set of localization tools, including Pootle.
At my request, Dwayne Bailey and Friedel Wolff worked very hard to produce these videos so we could have screencasts showing just how to use their [...]