Mozilla supports SA translation work

South Africa's award-winning multi-lingual software developer, Translate.org.za, has been awarded a grant by the US-based Mozilla Corporation to extend its translation tools. The Mozilla Corporation co-ordinates the development of popular Internet software projects such as the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client. The grant is to further work on Pootle, a web-based translation tool, as well as the Translate Toolkit. Translate.org.za's translation tools are widely used in the open source community and Pootle is used by projects such OpenOffice.org, the One Laptop Per Child project, Creative Commons and OpenSolaris.