Hey everyone!
I couldn’t write anything informative here last week, as I was far away from any web-connected keyboards… But I hope you had a good time and all is well. Now, without further ado, let’s delve into some updates.
New SUMO members
The never-ending introductions thread is getting as long as a snake in that classical retro game for mobiles after at least 40 pieces of fruit… Say “hi” to those who joined us recently:
- neosp
- carmy47
- Kalumba
- freddyb (whoa! :-) welcome!)
- Mike
- ithaker
- falirblair
- Balaji Ravichandran
- ahsanhabibcy
- knvsrinivas1997
- Sajalsinghal
- Panzzer
- Kerishka_M
- rohitgoel
The goings-on
L10n sprint in Bangladesh for the upcoming Firefox OS launch
- The unbelievably amazing people behind Mozilla Bangladesh have broken all possible records again, localizing the Firefox OS KB into Bengali during their most recent l10n sprint. Huge, huge, H U G E respect and applause to their concerted effort. Thank you @centurionBD, @r4bb1h, @Hossainalikram, @pranjalcborty, @Orvimozillian, @DeltaAshfaqOne, @tapu_afrad, @fordsafwan, and everyone else involved in this project! You are true heroes of the Bangladesh community.
SUMO Day relaunch
- Madalina is looking for your feedback on relaunching the SUMO Day initiative.
- If you have no previous experience with SUMO Days, a small reminder – they’re about spending one day on a combined effort to answer 100% questions on the SUMO forums.
- Got ideas or comments? Here’s the etherpad.
First FAQ pages coming soon
- After the brief absence, I am back to work on the FAQ pages for low traffic languages, together with our SUMO devs
- We hope to have Estonian, Flemish, Gujarati, and Croatian as our pilot languages, with more to come later
- Thanks to Merike, Wim, and
Speaking of our SUMO Devs… A cool new feature is here!
- Are you following too many threads on the forums and would like to see (and edit) the thread subscriptions in one place? We’ve got you covered!
- The list includes all SUMO documents, forums, and threads the changes in which you are following – to unfollow any of them, untick the box. Make sure you click the “update” button at the bottom of the list to save your changes.
Do you love Firefox? Are you good with Swedish?
- The Swedish l10n team is looking for and enthusiastic and energetic lead for the general Firefox l10n
- If you fit the bill or know someone who would be a great person for this project, get in touch with the team
Finally, I feel like sharing a bit of amazing (and legally free) music with you. Take a look here and share your favourite sounds with us in the comments!