In Memoriam: Mamadou Niang, Fulah localizer
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 … Read more
Articles in “Languages & Cultures”
Taipei Localization Workshop
In discussing our plans for this years’ event, the city of Taipei was on a short list of preferred locations. Peter from our Taipei community helped us solidify the plan. … Read more
Localizing Firefox in Barcelona
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 … Read more
Localization Hackathon in Riga
Stas and I met in Riga with the Baltic and Polish l10n communities to do a hackathon. We gathered Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish. Sadly, nobody from the Estonian community could … Read more
Localization Hackathon in Argentina
From May 20-23, l10n-drivers Jeff Beatty and Delphine Lebédel met with 11 participants from 4 different communities in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) for 2 days of localization hacking. … Read more
Localization Hackathon in Stockholm
For the second year in a row the l10n-drivers team – represented by Jeff Beatty and I – met in Stockholm with several members of Mozilla’s Nordic communities, guests of … Read more
Localization Hackathon in Mexico
From April 9-10th 2016 we held a localization Hackathon in Oaxaca, Mexico. A total of 21 people gathered in this beautiful city for two days of work and fun. Eight … Read more
Mozilla Turkic l10n Meet-up – Istanbul
At the beginning of October, Axel and I took a trip to Istanbul to organize a new l10n hackathon. Is there a more iconic place than a city extending over … Read more
Growing Communities Around African Languages (and beyond…)
(Blog post by Théo Chevalier) Firefox OS is distributed across several countries and quickly expands throughout Africa. For many people, Firefox OS devices will be their first phone. This was … Read more
Mozilla RTL L10n Hackathon
Arky, Delphine, Peiying, and I have just returned from spending a spectacular week at an event that is a first for the Mozilla Localization community: a gathering for Right-to-Left (RTL) … Read more
Mozilla Baltic l10n Meet-up
At the beginning of June, together with my colleague Axel, we headed to Vilnius (Lithuania) for the Baltic l10n meet-up. The plan for the week-end was to meet some of … Read more
Mozilla Nordic L10n Hackathon 2015
At the end of April 2015, Axel Hecht, Matjaž Horvat, George Roter, and I took a trip to Stockholm to organize a l10n hackathon for the Nordic l10n teams. The … Read more