introduction to sinhala localization

Introduction to Localization (L10N)

Arky <arky@mozilla.com>Mozilla Community Manager

National School of Business Management (NSBM),Colombo, Sri Lanka

1 April, 2016

About

Mozilla Community Manager

Living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Creating, connecting and supporting

New localization teams world-wide

This talk gets you started with Mozilla localization process.

What is localization(l10n)?

Process of translating software into another language, includes translating text and date, number, currency formating

Let's take a look!

Download the Firefox Sinhala for you OShttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#si

Meet your l10n team!

https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:si

https://pontoon.mozilla.org/si/

Let's Translate!

Sign up to begin

Choose a project

Translation UI

Using filters

Can you translate this?

Testing Firefox Sinhala

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/all/?q=si

Found a translation problem?

Report the bug here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Q & A

Task 1: Contact your L10N Team

Task 2: Download and use localized software

Task 3: Sign up on pontoon.mozilla.org

Task 4: Install keyboards and start translations

Task 5: Test Firefox developer version, report problems using Bugzilla