The year 2015 was an awesome one for the Localization (L10n) Team of the Mozilla Philippines Community. Last year, Mozilla managed to ship the following products with Tagalog as a language option:
- Firefox for iOS
- Firefox OS (v2.1 & up)
In August 2015, the Philippines sent a delegation of 3 Pinoy Mozillians to the Mozilla L10n Meetings & Hackathon in Bangkok, Thailand. During this weekend gathering of key localizers from Southeast Asia and neighboring countries, the team was given an opportunity to look back and plan the future of L10n in the Philippines. Photos of the said event are here.
A number of Localization Sprints were held all throughout 2015 as documented here, here and here.
What’s in store for L10n efforts in the Philippines for 2016?
The road to have a Firefox (web browser for desktop and Android) localized to Tagalog is still a long one ahead. We will need your support to make our long time dream of releasing a Firefox version with Tagalog as a language option a reality in 2016.
We shall also launch the MozillaPH L10n website to house an online glossary of terms and their localized equivalent to Tagalog, as well as a duly documented Translation Guide for Pinoy Mozillians.
With the interest of Pinoy Mozillians from the Visayas region to localize products to their vernacular, it is not far fetched that efforts in this provinces will start anytime soon this year.