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Mozilla localization projects

Contact: Rick Elliott (relliott@netscape.com)
Last Updated: 03-June-1999

This page organizes and tracks the various localization-related Mozilla projects. If you are working on a particular project and would like to be listed here, let me know. If you have further information or other tracking pages, please also send me those links and I will include them here. (Also please tell me if I have made any mistakes here, such as listing you on a project you don't want to be on, etc. I'm getting most of this info from the newsgroups, so errors and omissions are possible.) The sections listed below may not (yet) contain any information. This list merely represents some of the areas in which localization developers may want to focus their energies. Additions and suggestions are welcome!

Projects

Advocacy

    Advocacy projects could include contributing the general awareness of localization issues, representing Mozilla in other forums and generally being supportive of other Mozilla localization projects.

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Documentation

    Documentation projects could include creating or translating Mozilla-related documentation.

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Education

    Education projects could include working with Universities or other educational institutions to encourage the adoption of Mozilla and participation (say, by computer science students) in developing localizable, internationalized Mozilla applications.

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Engineering

    Engineering projects could include fixing localization bugs, developing better (i.e., more easily localized) UI, message handling routines, or building new internationally relevant Mozilla applications.

    PROJECT CONTACT WEB SITE PLATFORM STATUS
    Web Page Translators Larry Jones
    Sandeep Sibal
    Translation API Gregory Block MozillaWorld Home Page

Localization Kits

    Localization Kit projects could involve creating new localization kits for Mozilla derivatives. Improvements to the existing localization kits, tools, documentation and strategy are also welcome. We have an immediate need for the creation of Unix localization kits.

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Testing & Review

    Testing & Review projects could include testing the localized versions created by the Mozilla development community, reviewing glossaries, creating new testing standards, etc.

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Tools

    Tools projects could involve improving the Netscape translation and leveraging tools, evaluating and adopting other existing tools, creating new tools, creating standards for localization tools, etc. If anyone would be interested in adding a full-featured resource editor to ToolCool (the Netscape translation tool), let me know!

    Any volunteers or ideas?

Translation

If you came here looking for OFFICIAL Netscape localized products, or want to see what languages Netscape already does, try this link: http://home.netscape.com/intl/download/index.html

Translation projects involve creating localized Mozilla or Netscape clients. Current projects are listed in the table below.

Total projects underway: 18!
PROJECT CONTACT WEB SITE PLATFORM(S) STATUS
Asturian Jesus Garcia y Alvarez To Be Announced Windows Beta version planned for end of December
Basque Jason T. Corey http://flarep.com/mozilla/ Mac,
Windows
Mac 4.05 Beta ready soon!
Bosnian/Croatian Adnan Selimovic
Isan Selimovic
  Windows Starting...
Bulgarian Pavel Kalinov Mozilla.bg Windows Initial chaos and task assignments
Catalan Jordi Mas http://www.softcatala.org/ Windows, Mac Versions available:

4.51 (Windows)
4.5 (Mac)

Czech Tomas Svoboda http://www.infima.cz/ Windows 4.05 finished!
Danish Henrik Lynggaard To Be Announced Cross Platform 5.0 in progress
Finnish Juha Sipilä To Be Announced Windows Waiting for 5.0
Galician Camilo Regueiro http://xis.vieiros.com/ Mac,
Windows
4.03 (Win) almost done!
Hawaiian Keola Donaghy Ka Ho'okele V.4.05 Mac Version 4.05 available!
Korean CHOI Junho http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker/ work/netscape-ko Unix (X11) 4.07 available!
Maori Kamera Raharaha Kupenga Maori Windows Planning phase
Malay Hasbullah Bin Pit
Meksom Group
http://ku.rindu.net/meksom/ Linux Starting 5.0
Norwegian Sigleif S. Lekve To Be Announced Windows Starting
Polish Maciej Przybecki SYLABA Internet Windows Version 4.5 done!
Romanian Viorel Dehelean To Be Announced Windows Started
Slovak Tomas Svoboda http://www.infima.cz/ Windows Starting
Spanish
(Castillian)
Rogelio Andreo El proyecto N.A.V.E. Windows,
Unix
Versions available:

5.0 (pre-release)
4.5 (pre-release)
4.05 Unix (pre-release)


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