Revision of Marketing & distribution from Tue, 25/08/2009 - 14:31

Call for Application

• ANLoc (mailing list, website) sent and published
  • Terminology teams
  • Locales teams
• LUGs (see this list to get started)
• APC Africa (mailing list) sent
  • Was invited to blog about it on their blog published
• AfricaSource 2 (mailing list) sent
• Friedel to invite his contacts who were trained (by him) on localisation sent
• Seth Bindernagel from Mozilla sent
• FOSSFA sent
• GHOSS sent
• LAUG sent
• People at the Africanisation (a12n) meeting in South Africa asked Heather
  • Ask Dwayne for contact information
  • Congo
  • Senegal (have worked on previous version of Firefox) sent
  • Moroco (Tifinagh)
• Ubuntu LoCo's (local communities)
• Universities
• African Wikipedia teams
• Announce on Afrigator
• African Languages group on Facebook
• ACALAN sent
• Facebook, twitter, etc. sent and published

Marketing and Distribution for Localised Software

• Mozilla university reps
• Seth Bindernagel from Mozilla
• Localise "Get Firefox" buttons to mention its availability in African languages
• Announce the availability of localised projects (Fennec, Firefox, Glossmaster, Pootle, Virtaal) versions on local/appropriate news sites
• Prepare some CDs with a set of localised software for distribution at any event
  • To be ready for the next ANLoc conference
  • Should also include outcomes from the other sub-projects, like fonts and keyboard layouts
• Ideas from the language teams
• Promote the language packs for Mozilla products
  • Needed for feedback and testing
• Announce to the channels mentioned in "Call for Applications" above
• Use Twitter to announce new languages and new versions