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Mozillaonline L10n Core Meeting

First of all, Merry Christmas, everyone! (Frohe Weihnachten ; ))

In the past Saturday, I attended Mozillaonline l10n core meeting. It was a very special meeting for Mozilla l10n community, since Mozillaonline invited 7 core members from Mozilla l10n community, who came from different parts of China. Most of them (above 90%) didn't see each other before but has been working with each other for more than 5 years! It was a great chance for me to meet some of them, who am working with for a while, like Holy Wen (Mozilla l10n community lead). We knew each other quite for some time. This was our first meeting. He was quite a nice person and passionate as well. Thanks to his enthusiasm, Mozilla l10n community is well organized and drove to each mile stone. Besides our talk on how to improve the schema and process and enhance collaborative work among community members (a web based tool is needed to solve the issue), I asked him about how to make use of time to do all these community things. He smiled and said "squash time". As I know, this community folk has his own daily job, but he can make 4 hours a day to help the community's every further step. How great he is! Not if I meet him in person, I wouldn't feel so affected by these community folks who contributed a lot but never ask for any returns. The meeting lasted for 4 hours and it was interesting to know how they get started with Mozilla community, how they work together, and how they solve problem they faced. They are just normal/common people, but undoubtedly, they build up the best opensource community in China.

Posted at 09:12AM Dec 24, 2007 by rachelzhang in Personal  |  Comments[1]