This meetup was nothing less than an awesome kick start to the year 2017, after the annual meetup of Pune!
To define l10n for me is as simple as Love+Passion for translation and language, altogether.
Day 1: The day commenced a lovely introduction to so many new faces like (Marathi localizers) Narendra, Nilima plus (Hindi Localizers) Megha, Dhiraj, Mahtab and other experienced localizers. It was so pleasant to see all others gather once again under the same roof , collaborate and work towards one common goal on the first day. We targeted all the untranslated/ not localised strings in our respective languages. In the process, we learnt about how to come up with error free strings, how to follow the style guide and not to simply try and fit in the words in the string puzzle, even if they don’t belong there! Trust me, it was a fun learning experience and nevertheless, quite productive too.
The day ended with, Chandrakant ji ‘s motivational words on how and why to contribute to this field. Not to forget, he also emphasized on each one’s individual goals and reasons to stick to L10n.
Day 2:
I rediscovered various facets and fronts of what does our contribution goes through.Yes, Faizal ji elaborated really well on : the 4 channels ‘our’ localised strings are poured into and the further process. the best part was to test the nightly version of the Firefox developer edition in Hindi. I must say, my head got heated up as quickly like the bowl of Ramen , to see the quality of our localised strings. We came up to a conclusion that, we are to increase the quality to a level that at least doesn’t hurt OUR eyes, haha, yes!
We also came up with various ideas or more specifically ‘Desi’ ideas on how to spread awareness and increase the usage of the available localised browsers that Mozilla presents to the crowd so as to break the myth and thus shout it out loud to the world that “Internet is open and is way beyond JUST English, for all“.
Then came the moment of giving away hear- hears to the consistent localisers like Ravi Kumbhkar , Dhiraj Kumar Singh and Aniket Deshpande for their amazing contributions.
Shall not deny to thank Faizal Aziz ji, for the surprise GIT learning!
Now added as a new localizer here :L10n Hindi-IN wiki page yay! and I finally received my L10n souveneir- The L10n tee.
Finally, i returned back home, taking a bag full of learning, experiences, tips, QA techniques and much affection for the l10n community and Mozilla as a whole!