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These are my thoughts on what I think is exciting for the next versions of Pootle and other tools.  Now that we are trying toget 1.2 out the door I thought it was nice to look wider.

• ODF converter - slower progress then I'd like but I really think this is going to open up the localisation of content and help put localisation squarely in the minds of Joe Public.
• Offline editor - a skunk works project you could say. I guess I'm opinionated on this one but I've never been very impressed with the PO editors out there, hopefully this will provide innovation and create an environment that makes localiser productive.  I'm pretty sure its going to really excite people.
• Mozilla localisation - Ask me this a year ago and I would say Mozilla really sucked.  But after talking to a number of People: John Lilly, Seth and Mic I slowly came around.  We now have a grant from Mozilla to help improve our tools and specifically focus on l10n in Mozilla.  After attending the Mozilla Summit and now seeing active recruitment and active work to address localisers concerns I must say I've become an ardent Firefox promotor and lover.
• Anloc - we're developing the tools also as part of Anloc - African Network for Localisation (more about that on another stream) lots to do for this and lots of improvements will come on specifically Pootle
• Mozootle or Verbatim - Mozilla has made many improvements to Pootle some pretty radical and some that we've wanted to see for years.  I got a glance of the Mozilla skin for Pootle, yummy.  We'll be merging that soon so others will benefit from it.

Lots happening here on Pootle and the Translate Toolkit.  But as Julen discovered we're an open community and welcome others to participate as we see our software growing and maturing.