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L10n BoF at FOSDEM
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The Mozilla folks are organizing a BoF on L10n tools at FOSDEM (thanks Sankarshan for the tip!). I’ll definitely try to make it there, since it’ll be interesting to see how Mozilla tries to solve their challenges and discuss our way of dealing with them.
It seems that L10n is a pretty hot topic these days. Maybe it’s the realization of its importance — more than 5-6 out of 10 Fedora users probably have a desktop in their language, I’d guess this percentage is similar in other projects, or even higher. Or maybe it’s the emergence of the distributed development model, and the need to always work with upstream. One thing is definite though: the contributions from the community are simply invaluable — both for open source projects, but also for proprietary and enterprise ones. For software and also for documentation, websites, videos, everything.
Every major project I’ve talked with seems to face challenges in this aspect — often similar, but each project’s goals have their own peculiarities. What I’m really happy about is that we’re well past the “problem” stage, and well into the “working solution” stage.