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\"\"<\/a>I’m Polish and I currently live in Warsaw.\u00a0 I don’t seem to be able to stay at one place for too long, however.\u00a0 I’ve lived in France, Switzerland, and the US and I speak English and French.\u00a0 I also learned Russian back in school, but most of what’s left of it in my mind is the alphabet (which I adore; don’t you think that “p” just looks as if it sounded like “r”?) and the Polish faux amis<\/em>.\u00a0 I’m slowly getting back to it now.<\/p>\n

When I first stared to learn about HTML back in the ’90s, I was appalled by the sorrow state of standardization back then and the fact that followed from it: most of the sites where inaccessible to people using less popular browsers or devices, or to people with disabilities. This motivated me to contribute and I did so by localizing Mozilla into Polish.<\/p>\n

Come to think about, accessibility now seems to be almost a given.
\nImagine a web developer come to you and tell you that the website she’s
\nworking on will not be available on small-screen devices. WAT?<\/p>\n

I joined Mozilla nearly four years ago to work with Pascal and Seth on
\ncommunity metrics: running surveys and mining the web traffic data on
\nour websites. Pascal was actually my m\u00e2itre de stage<\/em>, the internship
\nmentor who got me into Mozilla in the first place. Yay Pascal!
\nThere’s a lesson here: check out our internship openings!<\/p>\n

After that I transitioned into community management, which is really
\na fancy way of saying that I had a chance and honor to meet and work
\nwith tons of amazing people from all over the world. I learned a lot
\nabout cultures and languages, and this acquired knowledge and diversity
\nthat I was exposed to are two of the coolest things I personally have
\nMozilla to thank for.<\/p>\n

Today, I focus on l20n, the new platform and a programming language for
\nlocalization. You can find out more about it on the wiki<\/a>, and in the recent posts from Jeff on this very blog.<\/p>\n

You can find me on twitter (@5tas<\/a>) and I blog from time to time at
\nhttp:\/\/informationisart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5 things you may not know about me:<\/strong><\/p>\n