{"id":3708,"date":"2016-03-11T19:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2016-03-16T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:56:38","slug":"sumo-l10n-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2016\/03\/11\/sumo-l10n-update\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMO l10n update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hello, SUMO l10ns!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/VSSaLP6.png\" alt=\"SUMO l10ns, represent! (lion head image by Elio Qoshi)\" width=\"396\" height=\"258\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SUMO l10ns, represent! (lion head image by Elio Qoshi)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to share a few updates with you regarding the current state and plans for SUMO l10n &#8211; and I hope to do it more or less regularly via the blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>L10n hackathons in your area<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most important piece of news first.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/l10n.mozilla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The core Mozilla Localization team<\/a> together with the global l10n community powering Mozilla are organizing a series of localization hackathons around the world. It would be amazing to see you, SUMO localizers, join the fun!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Please check the dates below and if you see a locale that you localize in, contact the localizers organizing the event through the links below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>April<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berlin &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:de\" target=\"_blank\">de<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:fy-NL\" target=\"_blank\">fy-NL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:nl\" target=\"_blank\">nl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:uk\" target=\"_blank\">uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stockholm &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:da\" target=\"_blank\">da<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:fi\" target=\"_blank\">fi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:nb-NO\" target=\"_blank\">no<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:sv-SE\" target=\"_blank\">sv<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mexico &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:es-MX\" target=\"_blank\">es<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>May<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prague &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:dsb\" target=\"_blank\">dsb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:hsb\" target=\"_blank\">hsb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:cs\" target=\"_blank\">cs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:sk\" target=\"_blank\">sk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ru\" target=\"_blank\">ru<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Riga &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:et\" target=\"_blank\">et<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:lv\" target=\"_blank\">lv<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:lt\" target=\"_blank\">lt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:pl\" target=\"_blank\">pl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Buenos Aires &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:es-AR\" target=\"_blank\">es<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>July<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ljubljana &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:bg\" target=\"_blank\">bg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:bs\" target=\"_blank\">bs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:el\" target=\"_blank\">el<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:hr\" target=\"_blank\">hr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:hu\" target=\"_blank\">hu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:mk\" target=\"_blank\">mk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ro\" target=\"_blank\">ro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sl\" target=\"_blank\">sl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sr\" target=\"_blank\">sr<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>August<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tokyo or Taipei &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ja\" target=\"_blank\">ja<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ko\" target=\"_blank\">ko<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:zh-CN\" target=\"_blank\">zh-CN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:zh-TW\" target=\"_blank\">zh-TW<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kuala Lumpur &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:id\" target=\"_blank\">id<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:km\" target=\"_blank\">km<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ms\" target=\"_blank\">ms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:th\" target=\"_blank\">th<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:tl\" target=\"_blank\">tl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:vi\" target=\"_blank\">vi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>September<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Istanbul &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:az\" target=\"_blank\">az<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:tr\" target=\"_blank\">tr<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Delhi &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:bn-BD\" target=\"_blank\">bn-BD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:bn-IN\" target=\"_blank\">bn-IN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:gu\" target=\"_blank\">gu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:hi\" target=\"_blank\">hi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:kn\" target=\"_blank\">kn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ml\" target=\"_blank\">ml<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:np\" target=\"_blank\">np<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:si\" target=\"_blank\">si<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:ta\" target=\"_blank\">ta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/L10n:Teams:te\" target=\"_blank\">te<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/2016\/03\/14\/mozilla-localization-hackathons-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">For the complete list of all hackathons this year, please visit the l10n blog<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hope you can join your locale&#8217;s get-together, at the very least virtually.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pontoon video tutorials<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am working on a series of short videos explaining the basics of working with <a href=\"https:\/\/pontoon.mozilla.org\/projects\/sumo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pontoon <\/a>on SUMO UI localization. If you have requests about particular elements of it, let me know. The videos will be posted on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaiposaIhA7HfMqH2NIciyA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a> and included in the series of <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/kb\/localize-mozilla-support\" target=\"_blank\">Knowledge Base articles for new localizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Milestones and dashboards<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1afgt_qK597x_Kjx8dm4D-bW-E-Vp05zJooE9ZpQLoYc\/edit#gid=659751660\" target=\"_blank\">milestones tracker<\/a> has been recently updated with new data by locale leaders and localizers. Please use it every month to track the progress of your locale &#8211; it makes it much easier to prioritize and navigate the complex map of SUMO l10n :-)<\/p>\n<p>We had plans to make the tracker a part of the dashboards with automatic updates depending on a locale team&#8217;s progress, but these will have to wait due to our current dearth of developers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Product priorities<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/localization?product=firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox for Desktop<\/a> remains our top priority, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/localization?product=mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox for Android<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/localization?product=ios\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox for iOS<\/a>. We are still waiting for more news regarding the future of Connected Devices, but for now <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/localization?product=firefox-os\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox OS<\/a> is no longer a priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/localization?product=thunderbird\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderbird&#8217;s KB<\/a> is entirely in the hands of the Mozillian community.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Locale priorities<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You have all been doing an awesome job all over the KB, but there are some locales that need a bit of helping out, for various reasons. In the upcoming months I will focus on the following locales for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/pl\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">pl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/nl\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">nl<\/a> &#8211; we need more localizers for Polish! We also definitely need more localizers for Dutch, even if Tonnes and Gert are doing a great job of keeping the Dutch KB in the green all the time &#8211; they might want to go on holiday at some point (and then we&#8217;re doomed! :-))<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/tr\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">tr<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/el\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">el<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/id\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">id<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/vi\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">vi <\/a>&#8211; Turkish is one of our most popular locales and we don&#8217;t have enough people at the moment. Same goes for Greek, Indonesian, and Vietnamese &#8211; the hunt for great localizers in these locales is on!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/ar\/localization\" target=\"_blank\">ar<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2016\/03\/11\/event-report-1st-sumo-l10n-sprint-in-tunisia\/\" target=\"_blank\">while Ghaith &amp; the Mozilla Tunisia team have kicked things off in a great way recently<\/a>, we definitely don&#8217;t want to stop there. Mozilla&#8217;s software is used by many Arabic speakers and we have to make it easier to use for them in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Questions? Let me know<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/user\/vesper\" target=\"_blank\">As always, if you have questions about any of the above, contact me<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/l10n-forum\" target=\"_blank\">use the SUMO l10n forums<\/a>, as usual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep rocking the helpful web with your strong roars, l10ns!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, SUMO l10ns! I wanted to share a few updates with you regarding the current state and plans for SUMO l10n &#8211; and I hope to do it more or &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2016\/03\/11\/sumo-l10n-update\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}