Hi all,
Seth Bindernagel (Community Program Manager), JT Batson (Head, International Marketing Efforts) and Chris Hofmann of Mozilla Foundation are coming to Mumbai on 21st. The purpose of the trip is build further community involvement and start to find people who can help localizer drive the adoption of Firefox 3. This includes both supporting current volunteers in contributing more and providing resources.
The details: * 10.30AM - Registration * 11AM - Introduction & Welcome * 11.30AM - The State of Mozilla * 12.00AM - Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation. * 1.00PM - Lunch break * 2.00PM - Brainstorming on promoting Firefox in India (Spread Firefox.in?) * 3.00PM - How to localize Firefox? How did we localize for Gujarati/Other language? Experience from different teams on development with Mozilla/Firefox- small workshop * 4.00PM - Firefox 3 - what's up the sleeve? * 5.00PM - Completion
Who should attend? * Everyone who's helped in localization of Firefox / other Mozilla Software * Students and Open Source evangelists who want to promote Mozilla / Firefox * Community organizers & marketing enthusiasts * Anyone who's interested in Mozilla / Firefox
Where? Many thanks to HBCSE for hosting this event.
To reach at HBCSE, please see: http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/ObjectType/c/contact/viewObjectType
RSVP: Please add your name to wiki (link below), if you wish (you should!) to attend the event: http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Upcoming_meet_RSVPs
On 7/17/07, Kartik Mistry kartik.mistry@gmail.com wrote:
- 12.00AM - Do we need an EN_IN version of Firefox? Local English, local
search providers, certain spellings and other India specific items. Brainstorming, and team formation.
On my behalf, please ask the following question/s to the panel:
"Why we needing EN_IN varjan? Did Indian English coming differently? Do they make spelling ghotala correct for e.g. UK English to Indian English? Can you give dialog boxes saying 'Aye Bidu, there is locha in your url'"
Just my 2 bits. For the sake of simplicity, and sanity.
Nishit Dave wrote:
On my behalf, please ask the following question/s to the panel:
"Why we needing EN_IN varjan? Did Indian English coming differently? Do they make spelling ghotala correct for e.g. UK English to Indian English? Can you give dialog boxes saying 'Aye Bidu, there is locha in your url'"
Just my 2 bits. For the sake of simplicity, and sanity.
The IN part is mainly the ``locale'' part. Locale deals with things other than the language itself, like currency, time zone, decimal format, etc.. It _may_ also incorporate country specific spellings, etc.. but since we more or less follow British spelling conventions, there isn't much in that. Nevertheless, pretty funny email.
Regards, BG
--- Nishit Dave wrote:
On 7/17/07, Kartik Mistry kartik.mistry@gmail.com wrote:
- 12.00AM - Do we need an EN_IN version of
Firefox? Local English, local
:-?
On my behalf, please ask the following question/s to the panel:
"Why we needing EN_IN varjan? Did Indian English coming differently? Do they make spelling ghotala correct for e.g. UK English to Indian English? Can you give dialog boxes saying 'Aye Bidu, there is locha in your url'"
May be it is about "color" and "colour". May be it is about "neighbor" and "neighbour" ... There are phrases which are probably Indian - "went for a toss" ...
But I don't think, this merely calls for a EN_IN version. We need to think more about advocating and /advertising/ Mozilla Firefox than have a separate version. Are there plans of discussions of MPL 1.1 too?
-- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode
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Who should attend?
- Everyone who's helped in localization of Firefox / other Mozilla Software
- Students and Open Source evangelists who want to promote Mozilla / Firefox
- Community organizers & marketing enthusiasts
- Anyone who's interested in Mozilla / Firefox
guys, mind doing a video recording of meet and posting on net ?
regards VK
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Baishampayan Ghose -
Kartik Mistry -
Nishit Dave -
Roshan -
vivek khurana