MozCampEU2012/Localize MDN Help Start a l10n team

Title of Session: Localize MDN — Start/Extend a localization (Workshop)

Facilitators: Jean-Yves Perrier, Ali Spivak

Are you paid or volunteer staff?: Paid

Area of Contribution (Team Name): Developer Engagement/MDN

How are you currently involved with the community?: Mozilla Reps, Developer Events, MDN, MDN community outreach & growth

Location of Work (where do you reside?): Switzerland/San Francisco

Talk Length (please choose between 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes): 60 (15 minutes talk - 45 minutes workshop)

Summary: Workshop on how to localize the MDN: Why doing it – Getting started on the MDN – Join/Create a team — How to get help.

How your session furthers the MozCamp Goals (https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/Tracks):

• This is a Grow Mozilla event.
• But we are in great need of new l10n teams for our Apps documentation, our B2G/Firefox OS documentation and our Open Web documentation (that teaches Web devs how to write good interoperable desktop and mobile Web sites). It has a direct influence on all three tracks.

Expected Outcome or Deliverable:

• All attendees will
  1. be able to translate more pages in the MDN
  2. be able to coordinate with other contributors
  3. be prepared to grow a team of localizers by hosting events and assisting on-line new contributors.
• Attendees of a not-yet-existing locale will
  1. go out of the workshop with their new locale set up, ready for translation.
  2. know the different steps needed until the locale will go live.
• We expect a directly gain of a few new core contributors for a few locales (like Spanish, Polish, Italian, ...) that had an active team a few years ago but have become dormant.

Desired Audience Type or Skill-set: anybody with decent writing skills in their language Newbie/Wannabe localizers, translators, and people w/o experience with the MDN are all welcome.

Equipment Needs (Video projector already included): (good, reliable) wi-fi

Place your name here if you would like to attend this talk:

• Coce 10:40, 30 July 2012 (PDT)
• Jérémie Patonnier
• Rami Khader