Posted in l10n, planet on July 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Danishka is our lead Sinhala localizer in Sri Lanka. In addition to creating a localized version of Firefox 3, he’s been doing some great evangelizing about Mozilla in his home country. Check out this video on Swarnavahini News. (If you don’t understand Sinhala, this video is gonna be rough. But, you’ll still see some noticeable [...]
Posted in l10n, planet on July 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week, a subset of the l10n-drivers team met in Paris (my pics are coming) to discuss many things related to l10n, including a review of goals that had been set last November before the lead-up to the release of Firefox 3. The goals were ambitious and listed many ways in which the team could [...]
Posted in planet on July 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
A good buddy of mine, Jay, sent me the following picture, beaming with pride to have participated in Download Day.
Way back in the day, Jay and I hung out together in Washington D.C. We had a pretty tight crew of people who were all inspired and working in D.C. for members of the U.S. Congress [...]
Posted in l10n, l10n tools, planet on July 10th, 2008 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in l10n, l10n tools, planet on June 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in India, l10n, planet on June 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
In the past couple days, the Mozilla’s dev-l10n mailing list has seen a thread of conversation asking about how Mozilla chooses languages that are shipped and what can be done to improve the process. I thought I’d write a bit on the incredibly hard work that goes into localizing and what might constitute plan for [...]
Posted in SUMO, planet on June 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a summary of the script I created for Support Day live screencast. Thought I would pass it along to see how I prepared for it and then give everyone the notes for some cool tips in Firefox 3.
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We started by taking people through how to create another profile in Firefox, in case you have [...]
Posted in SUMO, planet on June 20th, 2008 No Comments »
In about 15 minutes (1:15 PM Pacific Time UTC- 7), Asa and I will be hosting a live session on Firefox 3 tips and tricks for power users.
It is all part of the Support Day, that has been going on all day.
You can tune into the broadcast here: http://www.mogulus.com/sfd
Tune in…let me know how I do. [...]
Posted in l10n, l10n tools, planet on June 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in community, l10n, planet on June 13th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]