Every three months, the l10n-drivers dedicate a couple of weeks to review progress made on objectives from the past three months (or quarter) and plan new objectives for the next quarter. Historically, we haven’t published much about these objectives, but … Continue reading
Language Settings In Firefox there are two main user facing settings related to languages: Web content: when you visit a web page, the browser will communicate to the server which languages you’d like to see content in. Technically, this is … Continue reading
We had a really ambitious and busy year in 2018! Thanks to the help of the global localization community as well as a number of cross-functional Mozilla staff, we were able to focus our efforts on improving the foundations … Continue reading
From 2014-2017, the l10n-drivers assumed responsibility for organizing localization sprints, hackathons, and workshops. We went from hyper-local meetups to large-scale meetups (in Berlin’s workshop last year we had 50+ localizers present). Feedback from the community over the years has taught … Continue reading
In case you’re wondering “Uhm, what year are we in again?”, don’t worry: it’s April 2018, and this is a long overdue post that I owe to our large community of Indic locales. Last November, Jeff, Peiying and I (flod) … Continue reading
In 2017, teams across Mozilla began using the OKR (Objective, Key Result) goal setting framework, including the l10n team. At the beginning of last year, we wrote a post about the OKR goals for l10n, particularly focusing on the impact … Continue reading
Cross-posted from Discourse. If you have comments, please join the discussion there. A few days ago the Open Innovation team wrote two posts about the general direction of Mission Driven Mozillians and the Revised Leadership Principles – now titled “Shared … Continue reading
Firefox 56 for desktop ships in 96 languages, with 5 more only available in the Nightly channel. To give you an idea of what this number represents, while getting the exact list of languages shipping in competitors is really hard, … Continue reading
Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. While most of mozilla gathered in San Francisco, a small group of ten hands gathered in a small … 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