L10n:Becoming an Official Localization: Difference between revisions

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You need to create your language pack and then once you have a language pack ready and you're hosting it, you can start collecting user input. We can help you with hosting costs if you need, we have been working on a [http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/06/04/support-update-3/| global program],  [mailto:l10n-drivers@mozilla.org| email] for this type of support.  
You need to create your language pack and then once you have a language pack ready and you're hosting it, you can start collecting user input. We can help you with hosting costs if you need, we have been working on a [http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/06/04/support-update-3/| global program],  [mailto:l10n-drivers@mozilla.org| email] for this type of support.  
At this stage you are effectively expanding your community, this is a good thing and will be useful for you for testing, events (i.e, celebration parties), and possibly web pages or other areas you might need or want help with.


* if you haven't already done so, file a [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/registration.html| registration bug] (we want this to happen as early in process as possible) - you "must" do this because we have people working in a variety of groups and in a variety of geographic locations and this is the best way to effectively let people know what's happening and move to the next steps
* if you haven't already done so, file a [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/registration.html| registration bug] (we want this to happen as early in process as possible) - you "must" do this because we have people working in a variety of groups and in a variety of geographic locations and this is the best way to effectively let people know what's happening and move to the next steps
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* You will need to open an l10n account [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Create_a_new_localization#File_CVS_account_bug| request] (on CVS)
* You will need to open an l10n account [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Create_a_new_localization#File_CVS_account_bug| request] (on CVS)
* Create a bugzilla component (so language is created in bugzilla for tracking purposes)
* Create a bugzilla component (so language is created in bugzilla for tracking purposes)
Something to think about all throughout your work is expanding the people around you who can help you with the language you're working on. This is a good thing and will be useful for you for testing, events (i.e, celebration parties), and possibly web pages or other areas you might need or want help with. We want to help with this and are working on programs to do so. (More to come on this topic).


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