Mozilla Philippines Localization Team MozCoffee 28 JAN 2012

January 28th, 2012 by Robert "Bob" Reyes with No Comments »

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As I was recently appointed Localization Lead for the Firefox Aurora Tagalog translation efforts of the Mozilla Philippines Community. Two (02) weeks ago, I called for a MozCoffee event to all interested individuals to participate in the Tagalog Firefox project. The meeting was actually held this afternoon at McCafe Greenbelt 1; iced (or hot) mocha was on us!

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Upon registration, each of the attendees received their coffee stub, which entitles them to a free hot or cold McCafe Mocha …

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It was a very fruitful initial meeting, seeing old and new faces within the local IT circle. Most of them were not that aware of the localization (translation) efforts being made for Mozilla products, more particular: Firefox.

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Thanks to the awesome people of McDonald’s Greenbelt 1! They managed to reserve a corner of their busy branch to accommodate the meeting attendees.

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All those present during the meeting went home with some swags sent by Mozilla HQ (you are all awesome!).

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We are now in the planning stage for the next meeting sometime middle of February this year. I’m thinking of having a hands-on type of walk-through about the Narro. Please do watch out for this event. Details will be posted in this blog soon.

If you want to be part of the Mozilla Philippines Localization Team, you may join our Facebook Group {tagalogfirefox@groups.facebook.com} and be sure to follow @TagalogFirefox in Twitter. Mabuhay!

Let’s Talk About Localization (Translation) Over a Cup of Coffee

January 17th, 2012 by Robert "Bob" Reyes with No Comments »

Interested to be part of the localization (translation) efforts of the Mozilla Community Philippines? Please join us for an afternoon of coffee while we talk about the following:

  • Meet & Greet (see the faces behind the names in the L10N)
  • What happened in Mozilla Camp Asia 2012 (Kuala Lumpur)?
  • Current status of the PHL Mozilla Localization Project (L10N) | Localization of Firefox Aurora
  • Plans for 2012
  • Kwentuhan

Sign-up page is now online at http://phlmozcoffee2012.eventbrite.com

Please do not hesitate to contact me via robert.reyes@gmail.com or SMS 0939.914.2860 for inquiries. Thanks!

BTW, did I mentioned that Mozilla HQ is sending some swags for the meeting attendees? See you!

Mozilla Firefox Localization Webinar Highlights

March 21st, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with 1 Comment »

We had the Mozilla Firefox Localization to Filipino Webinar led by Seth Bindernagel of Mozilla yesterday morning and it was a great session.

Around eleven folks attended the first webinar to tackle Mozilla Firefox localization to Filipino. (Props to John, Kevin, Bob, Joell, Charmaine, Gian, Juned, Marvin, and other folks who made time for the webinar. if you were there, please let me know! :) )

Seth introduced a tool called Narro and it’s a web-based translation/localization tool developed by Alxandru Sasz. Seth showed us how to translate a couple of strings and showed us how to install language packs.

I just realized then that localization was a tricky thing. One phrase we were supposed to translate was “Manage Search Engines” which spurred a little discussion because there’s really no word that directly matches “manage” in Filipino. We agreed on “Pamahalaan ang mga Search Engine.”

One feedback: I hope Narro will be able to show the context of the strings to translate because in Filipino, there are different forms of verbs. Example, the string “Add Search Engine” by itself could mean to add a search engine right now, or an option add a search engine.

One learning I had is that we need some hard-core language and grammar folks to edit and make suggestions for un-awkward versions of English words.

In any case, this is a good first step for the community and we will follow this up with a translate-athon. :)

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Seth has a nice blog post on the chronological events that happened during the webinar. :)

Mozilla Firefox Localization to Filipino Webinar

March 19th, 2010 by Regnard Raquedan with 1 Comment »

Mozilla localization  expert Seth Bindernagel will be leading a webinar that will fast track the localization of Mozilla Firefox to Filipino.

The webinar will introduce the new and easy tools to translate the strings and change the configurations in Mozilla Firefox.

For interested Mozilla Philippines Community folks who would like to join the webinar, please create an account in TokBox in advance. The URL of the webinar will be posted shortly it starts, so I will post the URL here, in addition to Facebook and Twitter (@MozillaPH).

For questions, post a comment or email me at regnard (at) raquedan.com.