{"id":532,"date":"2012-10-25T21:10:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/?p=532"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:10:43","slug":"open-source-shines-at-localization-world-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/2012\/10\/25\/open-source-shines-at-localization-world-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Open source shines at Localization World Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"magicdomid2\">As many of you know, Mozilla had the chance to attend and present sessions at one of the premiere localization industry events, <a href=\"http:\/\/localizationworld.com\/\">Localization World Seattle<\/a> (LocWorld). It was a great pleasure to participate in the conference and network with interesting people within the l10n industry. It was also a great success for both open source l10n and Mozilla&#8217;s l10n efforts.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Check out some of the greatness coming from our time at LocWorld:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>L20n feedback<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid3\">First, the audience in our session gave us great feedback and suggestions for L20n:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a central repository of common L20n files.<\/li>\n<li>Too much coding, localizers are not software engineers.<\/li>\n<li>Creatie a library of commonly used language macros for those who are not interested\/able to create their own but still want to use L20n.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"gala-global.org\">GALA<\/a> and others interested in helping to develop and standardize L20n.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"magicdomid13\"><strong>Pontoon feedback<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid14\">Second, the audience also gave us great feedback for Pontoon:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Go backwards: in an admin panel, the Pontoon could be able to show where the string displays in the interface (Adobe was doing something similar by md5-hashing strings).<\/li>\n<li>Character styles should be manageable when preforming in-context editing. Perhaps on the fly rendering of HTML added to the translated string.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"magicdomid22\"><strong>General successes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid23\">Generally speaking, there were a lot of elements at LocWorld which combined to make the whole experience a great success. For example:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Both sessions received a lot of questions and interest. For our tools session, we had a Q&amp;A session of about 30 minutes. We learned that this is apparently unusual for a LocWorld session. This session was considered one of the most engaging sessions of the whole conference.<\/li>\n<li>A room moderator and conference program scheduler for LocWorld wants to institute an open source track for next year.<\/li>\n<li>There are some industry publications and research firms interested in adding the Mozilla &amp; open source perspective to their publications. We&#8217;ll have more to tell you about that in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Several amazing organizations have expressed interest in contributing and collaborating with Mozilla and our l10n teams. Some of these are <a href=\"http:\/\/translatorswithoutborders.com\/\">Translators without Borders<\/a>, Amazon, and some language services providers (LSPs).<\/li>\n<li>Overheard in the audience about Pontoon and L20n: &#8220;This is the future of l10n!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The official theme of the event was &#8216;mobile,&#8217; but all you could hear people talk about was crowdsourcing and community localization \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"magicdomid36\">We&#8217;re excited to continue to participate in these events and look forward to attracting more interest on our l10n community&#8217;s excellent work! If you have any questions about our experience, shoot us an email.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, Mozilla had the chance to attend and present sessions at one of the premiere localization industry events, Localization World Seattle (LocWorld). It was a great &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/2012\/10\/25\/open-source-shines-at-localization-world-seattle\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,503,199,12691,5866,610],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}