The last weekend of August saw the largest localization hackathon event the l10n-drivers ever organized. Thirty-four community contributors representing 12 languages from 13 East and Southeast Asian countries journeyed to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, August 26. Jeff, Flod, Gary … Continue reading
One of the main goals of Pontoon is lowering barriers to entry. Especially for end users (mainly localizers), but also for contributors to the codebase, since many of our localizers have a developer background. I’m happy to acknowledge that in … Continue reading
After much delays, collectively we picked a balmy first weekend of June and Berlin as our host city for a localization hackathon. We had four representing each of Dutch/Frisian and Ukrainian communities, three of German, one of South African English. … Continue reading
Earlier this week I came back from the Ljubljana Localization Hackathon which took place over the weekend. It was an inspiring meetup focused on translating Mozilla projects. I left full of energy and ideas and happy to have met many … Continue reading
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 attend due to conflicting schedules, but Merike Sell joined us … Continue reading
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. These communities represented Spanish from Chile, Spanish from Argentina, Guaraní … Continue reading
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 the local Wikimedia offices, for the Nordic Viking Mozilla l10n … Continue reading
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 locales were represented there, most of which were indigenous languages: … 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
Twice per year, Mozillians from around the world are invited to attend 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 goals, … Continue reading