Seth Bindernagel Presentation on WordCamp Philippines 2009: Firefox Localization for Filipino Users

8/14/2019 Seth Bindernagel Presentation on WordCamp Philippines 2009: Firefox Localization for Filipino Users

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mozilla


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a global community


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tens of thousands of contributors


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working together to promote

choice and innovation on the Internet


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Mozilla

Firefox

Services

Mobile

Open Web


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Firefox


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Leading free, open sourceweb browser

23% market share 300 million+ users globally Offered in 75 languages

Firefox


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Regional patterns of Firefox growth


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Firefox usage in the Philippines

Current usage ofvarious localizedversions

Annual growth

rate > 100%


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Firefox usage within the Philippines


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Mobile Firefox 1.0for Maemo OSexpected thisOctober

Mobile


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Services


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The Open Web


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What about alocalized version in

the Philippines?


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Mozilla

Community

through the lens of

localization


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Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Basque Belarusian

Bengali (India)

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Czech

Danish

Hebrew

Dutch

English (US) Esperanto

Indonesian

Finnish

PolishIrish Portuguese (Brazilian)

Portuguese (Portugal)

French

Frisian

Swedish

Norwegian (Bokmal)

Spanish (Spain)

Mongolian

English (British)

Turkish

Bulgarian

Norwegian (Nynorsk)German

GreekRussian

Hindi (India)

Occitan

Slovak

Hungarian

Gujarati

Icelandic

Italian

Korean

Japanese

LithuanianMacedonianPersian

Latvian

Kurdish

PunjabiSerbian

Telugu

Thai

Spanish (Argentina)

Sinhala

Romanian

Galician

Georgian

Slovenian

Ukrainian

Estonian

Kannada

Marathi

Vietnamese

Welsh


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75 Localizations


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100% Contributedby Volunteers


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Localized versions of Firefox

covers over 97% of theworld's Internet population

with a language optionthose users speak natively


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How do weaccomplish this?


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Clearly defined roles

Successful l10n teams in the Mozilla communityhave mapped out specific roles and task fortheir team members (i.e. products, web, special

projects, QA, etc.)

Explicit outline of tasks to complete

Clearly defining tasks so no confusion exists onhow to participate

Deadlines

We release software and set specific timelinesso volunteers know when to contribute

Create opportunities for participation

Newcomers are often set to new, untouchedtasks that need a team leader -- *always*something to be localized

Trust

Mozilla asks localizers to make strategicdecisions for the localized version of Firefox

Full-transparency

Strive to have open lines of communication atall times!

Strategy to Scale

Engage Empower


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Tools

Infrastructure

Compare-locales & DashboardsTranslation Narro, Translate Tookit, Silme, Koala and Verbatim

Testing

LitmusCommunity management

Mozilla Community Sites


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Documentation

Mozilla Wiki

https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10nMozilla Developer Center

https://developer.mozilla.org

Mercurial

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2


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In summary...


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anyone can start contributing

testing

developerlocalizer

marketing

support

add-ons


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85% current users hear about Mozillathrough word of mouth or buzz

generated by our community


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Become a voice Localize! Hack on code Schedule events Join campus reps Spread Firefox Take part in the Affiliates

Program


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Firefox Affiliates Program

43M impressions aroundFirefox 3 DownloadDay!

Include a button orbanner on your website

Help drive Firefoxadoption!


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Questions?


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