Mozilla L10n meetup 2017:Pune

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!

 

Mozilla India Meetup 2k16: An experience & a token of thanks.

To start off with, if you’re here to know about what happened at the event, then please look for the documented stuff (which even I’ve contributed into). Here, I’m writing down, what’s not mentioned in those documented forms.  I take time, to congratulate Mozilla India community to have been successful in accomplishing the goals of restructuring the whole process & of course (my favourite part), inclusion of new functional areas, thus increasing the scope of overall contribution towards Mozilla.

These 3 days (26th to 28th) have been added to the most overwhelming experiences of my diary, within. I witnessed a lot of Diversity, which is indeed an integral part of our Mozilla Community and we must strive hard to maintain (As per our lovely Konstantina Papadea) & to even pump it up to the next level.

The presentation and clarity of thought exhibited by Bradley Cohen, makes me admire him every time I think of Marketing, branding or moreover anything related to Moz Logo, oops! (No more Moz, fox, or zilla ) the Mozilla Logo. Coming up to the personal leadership session by Ankit Gadgil, co-facilitated by Natasha Chaudhary , led to interaction with mozillians plus leaders, each representing one or the other geographic location on the Indian map. This event was nothing less than a Self-Check , and quite an alarming one to where I as a Leader stand (It wasn’t that bad for sure).

Exchange of thoughts, voicing up your views, and staying up for like almost 12 hours of a day together for just the unanimous MOZ Love, defines a true community. Throwing some light on my focussed learnings:

• Appreciate others.
• Listening helps.
• Decentralize power and responsibility (yes because, with great power also comes great responsibility, remember?).
• Don’t always jump on solutions, rather analyse on the problems. It increases the efficiency of the solution (trust me, it does).

On the concluding notes, I’d express my gratitude towards:

The whole Event planning team, logistics team of Moz Pune for organising a PAN India meetup, at the same time also made each and every attendee, at ease and comfort. Hats off to the efficient planning, towards George, Bradley, Dϊetrϊch, and the really sweet Konstantina for taking time and coming down to India and sharing their acquired valuable skills, experiences and knowledge. Trying to remember some names, like Ram Dayal to never say a no to any question related to MozVR, Vnisha, for being such a wonderful host, Priyanka and Diwanshi to always bring us back to the venue on time, thus making the event start and end on time. Umesh ji for keep the string intact such that these vital and precious beads (event and minute details) don’t slip off, Dyvik for being such a wonderful partner in the Operations and Infrastructure team (the smallest team).

A special Thanks to Tripad and Jafar for very well airing the event and his tremendous efforts, and the very patient Bhuvnesh, to deliver such great quality photographs and memories of this event and Harsha Vardhan for starting this new segment of Documentation, thus opening up doors for me to contribute towards this well managed event. Lastly, to all the great mozillians I befriended, whom i assure that they’d be more than just a contact in the phone. Cheers!