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What’s New
- 7 May 2008
- The Thunderbird language pack provided here is not affected by the virus found in the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox (see Bug 432406).
- 1 September 2005
- Come and get it!
- 17 August 2005
- Deadlines revised (see “Project Plan”)
- 15 July 2005
- Project revised to translate Thunderbird instead
- 1 July 2005
- Website set up
- 29 June 2005
- Project started
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The current localization is not compatible with Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. I am currently updating the language pack for compatibility with the latest version of Thunderbird.
The vi project was Minh Nguyễn’s Summer of Code project to localize Mozilla Thunderbird 1.1 for the Vietnamese language, under the mentorship of mozdev’s David Boswell. Google’s Summer of Code 2005 only allowed individuals to participate, so this project originally did not accept outside contributions. Now that the SoC is complete, Minh has begun updating the language pack for compatibility with the latest trunk builds of Thunderbird, based on an existing language pack for Firefox (see below). Current work is taking place on an offsite Subversion repository. If you’re interested in helping out, please contact him.
About the Summer of Code
For the inaugural Summer of Code, Google sponsored 410 students to contribute to an open-source project, under the guidance of one of the participating mentoring organizations. Each student that completed their project by September 1st received $4,500 in grant money – plus a T-shirt and bragging rights. Minh worked with mozdev to contribute this localization to the Mozilla Thunderbird project, and is continuing the project after the program ended.
About Mozilla Thunderbird
Thunderbird is an e-mail and newsgroups client, a fast and innovative alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express. It includes handy features such as trainable spam filtering, easily accessible search, and support for multiple accounts and RSS feeds. Its extension framework allows users to add useful third-party features, such as music players, dictionaries, and notepads.
What happened to Firefox?
There are existing efforts to translate Firefox into Vietnamese. The most complete of these efforts is a language pack by Jasper Thái that will hopefully become an official localized version of Firefox in the near future.
More information will come soon. Minh maintains a personal weblog at Minh’s Notes. He is getting quite tired of referring to himself in the third person.