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Speaker Name	Axel Hecht
Organization	Mozilla Corporation
Type	Tutorial
Scope	General
Slides	Click to download
Improving Mozilla Localizations
Abstract	Axel Hecht (irc nick: Pike) is Mozilla's lead engineer for localization efforts. The ecosystem around Indic localizations of Mozilla Applications, most prominently Firefox, is rapidly evolving these days. Some Firefox localizations (Gujurati and Punjabi) will need to be updated for the release of Firefox 3. A host of languages are emerging for Firefox. Finally, localizations in various languages are in the in active development, but very well may be in beta by the December FOSS.IN Mozilla project day. Axel will demonstrate the life cycle of a bug in a Mozilla localization, covering testing, bug filing, patch creation, landing and testing. He will demonstrate various tools that help contributors to find the relevant source, edit it, and submit the changes back to the localization team. Because Mozilla has very specific requirements to meet the standards of shipping with new releases, Axel will take community members through the detailed patch review process. He will be there to answer any questions and help individuals locate & file bugs and submit patches.
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Speaker Profile	A member of Mozilla Europe’s board of directors, Axel Hecht is coordinating the localization of Mozilla applications worldwide on behalf of the Mozilla Corporation. Axel started contributing to Mozilla in 1999, working on XSLT. He has been the module owner of RDF since 2004, steering the development of this backend component towards standards compliance, performance and applicability to web applications. His focus is in developing Mozilla as a platform for web applications as well as lightweight, cross-platform and localizable applications on the client. Axel also started the European annual developer meetings in 2000 and has been a central figure in the European developer community ever since. He participated in bringing localizations of Firefox into the primary source repository, integrating platform and application development communities with the localization communities around the world. Axel received a degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Kiel. After a research position with the Department of Applied Mathematics at Humboldt University in Berlin, he is now working for the Mozilla Corporation.