Congratulations to all our Localizers!

I just heard from Asa that we have now exceeded 20 million downloads in 1 week which is wonderfully incredible! Without your efforts we could not have achieved such overwhelming success.

It is an honour to work with all of you localizers, translators, testers and others who enable us to create so many great localizations for Firefox.  I congratulate you all on the extensive use of Firefox in all of your languages and locales!

Thank you also for participating and encouraging your users to help us go for a world record on Download Day for Firefox 3; we received over 8.000.000 downloads in 24 hours!

From what I hear in the channels many of you have or are about to have local celebration parties for Firefox 3. Please tell us about them either at www.spreadfirefox.com or leave me a comment with what you did and how it went :) I hope you ENJOY with your teams and users. You deserve wonderful celebrations :)!

Thank you and ...keep it open, keep it safe, use Firefox!

Yours sincerely,
Mic
L10n-driver

Comments

[Mic]

thanks to FryskeFirefox for helping me with this blogpost :)

[Laurens Holst]

Do you think we could get some numbers on how often each localisation was downloaded? I’d be interested in seeing the number of users for the Dutch localisation.

~Grauw

[Tomer Cohen]

The Israeli team is going to have a meet-up this Friday morning in Tel-Aviv. You are welcome to join us in case you are around. :)

http://mozilla.org.il/news/?p=596
http://mozillaparty.com/events/view/63

[Mic]

here are some stats in response to Laurens post: http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/06/25/localizers-enable-firefox-3-success/
I will write more on that in another post :)

[Tomer Cohen]

Pictures from Israel:

http://mozilla.org.il/news/2008/06/28/firefox3meetingisrael
(Click on the dog image for more pictures)

I've also wrote about it here [ http://tomercohen.com/2008/07/28/?p=301 ]; I'm not a member of planet.mozilla, so don't wait for the pictures to appear there.