Guest post from Mozilla Fulah community leader, Ibrahima Saar. UPDATE: Added pictures and a PayPal link for donations to the Mamadou’s family. It is with deep pain that we announce that our friend, teammate Mamadou Niang died in an accident … Continue reading
tl;dr: As of 1 September 2017, Mozilla’s Pootle instance (mozilla.locamotion.org) will be turned off. Between now and then, l10n-drivers will be assisting l10n communities using Pootle in moving all projects over to Pontoon. Pootle’s positive impact in Mozilla’s continued l10n … Continue reading
Hello from sunny Northern California! This week was Mozilla’s bi-annual All Hands, a gathering that brings Mozilla employees and community together for a week to hack on key Mozilla objectives. This All Hands, the Firefox team (which l10n is a … Continue reading
We were thrilled to start the year’s localization (l10n) community workshops in Barcelona at the end of March 2017! Thanks to the help of the ever dedicated Alba and Benny the workshop was fun, productive, and filled with amazing Catalonian … Continue reading
One of our goals for 2017 is to implement a continuous localization system at Mozilla for Firefox and other projects. The idea is to expose new strings to localizers earlier and more frequently, and to ship updates to users as … Continue reading
There’s a certain excitement growing within Mozilla. We’ve spent the last year strengthening our core, making Firefox and other projects competitive, and eliminating pain points in the localization process. We improved our l10n quality control practices by holding l10n events … Continue reading
A lot of improvements to Mozilla l10n tools and process have come throughout 2016. We’ve deeply enjoyed connecting with members of the community to learn what other improvements you would like to see in l10n. For the rest of the … Continue reading
Twice per year, Mozillians from around the world are invited to attend the All Hands work week. All Hands is an opportunity for both paid and volunteer staff from all functional areas to meet together to solve problems, brainstorm new … Continue reading
Many teams change and evolve over time. These changes involve organization changes as well as reorienting the team’s focus, mission, and function. I’m excited to announce that we’ve been experiencing some changes within the l10n-drivers team at Mozilla. Team Organization … Continue reading
Identifying translation issues is hard Trying to measure translation quality is like asking someone to tell you if a cake they’ve made tastes good. It may taste very good to you, but it may taste terrible to your friend. Despite … Continue reading