pascal

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