What is LOCALIZATION?

A process of translating a product into different languages or adapting a product for a specific region or locale.

Represented as a numeronym as L10n.

Anyone who possess skills in (reading writing and speaking) their regional language qualifies.

(Keyboard)Typing skills Patience Communication Enthusiasm Team Effort

Who can be a Localizer?

Why we do it?

•We love a good challenge ;-)

•We love the web!

•We love languages, cultures, and people!

•We love open source!

How we do itMozilla L10n drivers

• Tools• Guidance• Documentation• Infrastructure• Advocate

Mozilla L10n teams

• Localize projects

• Repo maintenance

• Productize l10n projects

• Represent Mozilla

• AdvocateRapid Release

• Visibility

• Smaller workloads

• User security & privacy

L10n opportunities

• Help localize Mozilla products like Firefox browser, Fx OS, Thunderbird.

• Help localize Mozilla Web Sites, Services, and Marketing Campaigns.

• Translate articles on the Firefox Support site.

• Translate wiki pages related to localization on the Mozilla Developer Network wiki (MDN).

• Contribute articles to the l10n topic on the MDN wiki.

Join us:

Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Home_Page

Twitter: @mozilla_l10n

Mozilla Zimbabwe L10n projects

1. Northern Ndebele - Byo teamCurrently has 4 active membersprogress: translated 17%

2. Shona - H.I.T team currently has 5 active contributorsprogress: translated 1%

Northern Ndebele Team https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:nd

Shona Teamhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:sn

Links to Mozilla ZimbabweL10n projects

Other languages

Zulu, Afrikaans, Sotho, Xhosa, Chinese, French etc

Download Firefox (fully localized languages)https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

Four easy steps to start

1)Introduce yourself in the L10n newsgroup

2)Contact team leaders: Christabel & Blessing

3)Create an account on Locamotion

4)Start Translating

THANK YOU