Mozilla Bangladesh is going to start an online localization sprint again. This time we all localize/translate Firefox 27 (Aurora) in Bangla (bn-BD). We already start the translations here[1] from today and continue until we complete the 100% localization of that product.
I am happy and excited to announce that awesome Mozillians from Mozilla Bangladesh has done 100% localization of Firefox OS 1.2 in our beloved language Bangla. Congratulations to all of those who joined in each steps as translation of the words, review them and submit the final. This is really a great achievement for us as community.
Please join me to give thanks and cheer our localization team of Mozilla Bangladesh for their splendid jobs.
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As you know we are giving effort to translate the subtitles of movies related to Mozilla from the Mozilla Bangladesh. I would like to present to you, our first Bangla subtitled movie “The Mozilla Story” at amara.org.
This video tells the story of how Mozilla helped shape the web we know today — and how we’re going beyond Firefox to do even more.
Enjoy the Bangla subtitled “The Mozilla Story”, be inspired and spread the movie link.
Find the original video of “The Mozilla Story” at youtube.com.
Hope you have read my blog on “How to spread the word of Mozilla”[0]. As I mentioned in my blog, movies or videos (motion pictures ;)) are very important and effective way to share thoughts and views with your audiences, locally or remotely. It makes impact to your audience bigger / greater then other medium like printed hard-copies/soft-copies of handouts or verbal talks. There is no chance to loose or miss any information when your are delivering your ideas through a movie – which is rehearsed, recorded, edited and finalized. It is handy, easy to transport and share. You can treat your audiences regardless the location homogeneously and motivate them equally by broadcasting the same movie or video to all.
But it creates more impact when this tool is equally accessible to all. In this digital era, Language is one of the major barier for easy access to information. Suppose you may play a movie to a group of people. But if the language of the movie is different from your native one. The movie may not absorbable to EVERYONE equally. The movie may not create equal impact to all as intended. It is very important to dub the movie in your native language to achieve the impact. But, what if you are not producer of the movie. The way to get your desired results is making subtitles for the movie in your native language, Bengali.
Mozilla has lot of movies[1][2] to inform, teach and motivate. You know things, learn ways, feel motivated and be proud for Mozilla by watching this movies, because you have another expertise beside your eye-sight and hearing capability – knowledge of English. Imagine, If you want someone within your friends-n-family or your countrymen, who don’t know English (or as good as you) to be in the same position like you, how that can be done with these English movies? You need to translate the subtitles into Bangla for them.
After becoming a Mozilla Rep, I wanted to start some activity for the general people and planned to introduce Mozilla Bangladesh to a new project. I thought of few ideas and came up with this activity, doing Bangla subtitles for Mozilla movies. I’ve open a etherpad[3] to list all the movies that we should make Bangla subtitles. If you think any Mozilla movie is good for the community but not in the list, feel free to contribute with appropriate links.
To start with the project, I am proposing to subtitle the renowned mozilla movie “Code Rush”. I’ve opened another etherpad[4] to coordinate the subtitle translation work for “Code Rush”. You’ll find the details about the movie, how to translate and some general instructions in that pad. Now I would like to invite you all who wants contribute for Mozilla and the community to join this translation work. Just sign your name at Distributions of translations section and follow the How to. Let do something not for ourselves or not for shareholders of some giant/evil company, let’s work for the country and for our great language.
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