Two Sri Lankans honoured by Mozilla Foundation

Two Sri Lankans have been granted access to modify official releases of Mozilla Foundation’s products, language packs and patches such as Mozilla Firefox web browser.

The two members of the LAKapps team, a Mozilla localisation project K.Sarveswaran, Systems Engineer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa (UoM) and Rohana Dassanayake, Systems Analyst at the Arthur C. Clarke Institute (ACCIMT) have been awarded this opportunity to access Mozilla’s L10n repository.

‘Both gentlemen have been active members of LAKapps from its very initiation and their commitment to the localisation of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) was thus rewarded by the Mozilla localisation project. This is a rare opportunity in the IT field and LAKapps is honoured to have been recognised,’ an official from LAKapps, a project to improve local language Internet-based software development and deployment said.

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