L10n talk - FOSDEM 2004 - Mozilla Meeting

Localization seems to get a more important topic in Mozilla development.
I'll give an update about

what the MLP is,
what has happened in the last year in this area,
where we are now (using the German project as an example),
and where are the problems for L10n currently / where we'd need help from other developers.

I hope there will be enough time left for discussion of this between slides and after the presentation.

Speaker: Robert Kaiser <KaiRo@KaiRo.at>

Living in Steyr, Upper Austria, and attending Vienna University to become a Chemistry and Physics teacher
Known as "KaiRo" on IRC
Maintainer of the Mozilla German Project (http://mozilla.kairo.at/, sometimes called "German (Austria)" because of it's internal name of "de-AT") since late 1999, first German Mozilla version was M12, released at 2000-01-01. Counting Download numbers of ftp.mozilla.org, Mozilla German seems to be the most-used Mozilla Localization.
Creator of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek themes
Contributing some smaller things to main Mozilla trunk, like resolving breakage of language switching pref panel, localeVersion updates (and automating them), making about:plugins themable ("make it look better") and localizable - recently even breaking tinderboxen...

The slides

This presentation was created for the European Mozilla Developer Meeting 2004 at FOSDEM in Brussels.
The slides for this talk are written in HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS.
You need to turn on Mozilla's "Site Navigation Bar" for navigating through the slides. Click "Next" to start with the first slide from this index page. "Top" will take you back to this index from all the slides.
An overview page that allows access of all slides without the navigation bar is available, as well an a glossary page explaining some common terms used.
If you want to look through them later, see http://slides.kairo.at/fosdem2004/.
All slides and images © 02/2004 Robert Kaiser.

Mozilla Localization (L10n) Status Update