L10n:Teams:sw

Swahili (sw)

Mentor 

Arky < arky (at) mozilla (dot) com >

Team website:

• Mozilla Kenya

Active team members

Name	Email	Role	Hg Access?	SVN Access?
Stephen Wanjau	wanjaustev@mozilla-kenya.org	Team Lead	NO	NO
Michael Buluma	michael@mozilla-kenya.org	SUMO Team Lead	NO	NO
Boniface Challo	bonifacechallo@yahoo.com	Expert Swahili Linguist	NO	NO

Localizers in training

Name	Email	Project assignment
Ednah Kiome	ednahkiome8@gmail.com	Localization
Maria	nyarurio@gmail.com	Localization
George	kariuki07.gk@gmail.com	Localization
Ash	sylvan.d.ash@gmail.com	Localization
Kelvin	mneshkev@gmail.com	Localization
JRose	jrnjeri@gmail.com	Localization
Cliff	carrgwings@gmail.com	Localization
Bavon	bavoni@gmail.com	Localization
Owden	owdeng@gmail.com	Localization
Sudi Mohamed	sudimohamed74@gmail.com	Localization
joshua	jnyakundi31@yahoo.com	Localization
Harrisgeift	mwashizo@gmail.com	Localization
Dennis Ndegwa	ndegwa90@gmail.com	Localization
Brenda Nyokabi	brndnyokabi@gmail.com	Localisation

Active projects

Which mozilla projects is your community actively localizing? Please add links to dashboards for these projects.

• Firefox Aurora for desktop.
• Firefox OS 2.1
• Firefox OS 2.2

L10n kit

• Glossary: You can download the items at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ntokao9sdj4b4of/ooG-wt_DY3 The downloads contain common computer terminology which would be handy in the localisation process.
• Style Guide developed by Rubric. It needs community review.
• Glossary developed by Rubric, based on FFOS 2.0. It appears to have been reviewed by the community.

How to join this l10n team

Five steps for newcomers to learn how to join your l10n team Here is how you can get started.

1. Add you name to Mozilla Swahili L10N Team page above https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Teams:sw
2. Register and start translating on Pootle http://mozilla.locamotion.org/sw/firefox/

Localizing SUpport.MOzilla.org (SUMO)

If you want to help localize http://support.mozilla.org/sw into Swahili, please do the following:

1. Create a SUMO account
2. If you can, get in touch with the Group Leader(s) listed here via a Private Message. If there is nobody listed there, please get in touch with Michał / vesper.
3. Read our universal l10n documentation here. For language-specific documentation, please get in touch with your Group Leader(s).
4. Visit your language thread in the forums and introduce yourself to the community. We don’t bite, unless you’re made of cake.
5. You're ready to go! If you have any questions, ask them on the forums.

Team communication

• Our mailing list is dev-l10n-sw[at]lists.mozilla.org
• You can send a private email to wanjaustev at mozilla-kenya dot org to be added to the mailing list.