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I started getting involved in Mozilla in 2000 heping end users on Usenet, then in 2001 as part of the Netscape Champions program creating documentation and ending our first end users with Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Suite via the creation of onlibne documentation. I later got involved in our early Web Compat initiative.
|name=Pascal
 
|surname=Chevrel
I was a Mozilla Europe not for profit founder and built European marketing and localization communities for Firefox in the early 2000s, around a website in 27 languages that generated 200,000 downloads per day for Firefox in Europe during 7 years.
|city=Paris
 
|country=France
I also was the Mozilla Spokesperson for Spain for a few years and helped organize our early participation to FOSDEM and dozen of open source events in France and Spain on a shoo-string budget.
|bugzillamail=pascalc@gmail.com
 
|website=https://www.chevrel.org
I created or helped create several large-scale community websites for the French and Spanish communities (FrenchMozilla, MozFr, MozillaES, Mozilla-Hispano). I am still maintaining MozFr.org with French volunteers.
|twitter=pascalchevrel
 
|ircnick=pascalc
From 2002 to 2016 I worked on creating a localization community from scratch as Mozilla websites and software were only available in English, first as a volunteer, then as a FTE in 2006 and later as one of the first European employees in 2008. I managed the localization of mozilla.org, multiple marketing sites and official extensions translated in 80+ languages with hundreds of volunteer translators. I was also the tech lead for a QA tool used by localizers called [https://transvision.mozfr.org/ Transvision] (an equivalent of searchfox but for translators).
|ircchannels=#release-drivers, #mozfr, #nightly
 
|background=Mozillian since 2001, employed by mozilla since 2006. I participated in the creation of various Mozilla community portals (mozilla-europe.org, mozillaes.org, mozfr.org, mozilla-hispano.org...), I made mozilla.org multilingual and in 80+ languages, I maintain and wrote most of https://transvision.mozfr.org and I now work on rebooting the Firefox Nightly channel to turn it into a real contribution funnel.  
In 2016, I created the Firefox Nightly channel Reboot program so as to improve our release quality from the earliest stages with the help of our core community. Follow us on:
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* https://x.com/FirefoxNightly
* https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/
* https://mozilla.social/@FirefoxNightly
 
Since 2018 I am a Firefox Release Manager. As part of this role I created and maintain the [https://whattrainisitnow.com/ What Train Is It Now ?] website.
 
Late 2023 I restarted an initiative to rebuild a Spanish (Spain, not the language) community from scratch, join us on https://matrix.to/#/#spain:mozilla.org

Latest revision as of 12:34, 28 August 2024

I started getting involved in Mozilla in 2000 heping end users on Usenet, then in 2001 as part of the Netscape Champions program creating documentation and ending our first end users with Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Suite via the creation of onlibne documentation. I later got involved in our early Web Compat initiative.

I was a Mozilla Europe not for profit founder and built European marketing and localization communities for Firefox in the early 2000s, around a website in 27 languages that generated 200,000 downloads per day for Firefox in Europe during 7 years.

I also was the Mozilla Spokesperson for Spain for a few years and helped organize our early participation to FOSDEM and dozen of open source events in France and Spain on a shoo-string budget.

I created or helped create several large-scale community websites for the French and Spanish communities (FrenchMozilla, MozFr, MozillaES, Mozilla-Hispano). I am still maintaining MozFr.org with French volunteers.

From 2002 to 2016 I worked on creating a localization community from scratch as Mozilla websites and software were only available in English, first as a volunteer, then as a FTE in 2006 and later as one of the first European employees in 2008. I managed the localization of mozilla.org, multiple marketing sites and official extensions translated in 80+ languages with hundreds of volunteer translators. I was also the tech lead for a QA tool used by localizers called Transvision (an equivalent of searchfox but for translators).

In 2016, I created the Firefox Nightly channel Reboot program so as to improve our release quality from the earliest stages with the help of our core community. Follow us on:

Since 2018 I am a Firefox Release Manager. As part of this role I created and maintain the What Train Is It Now ? website.

Late 2023 I restarted an initiative to rebuild a Spanish (Spain, not the language) community from scratch, join us on https://matrix.to/#/#spain:mozilla.org