Alumna Kristen Sheets Helps Localize Gmail To Irish

Also in the second half of December, at an event held at The Foundry (the conference and innovation center at Google’s EU headquarters in Dublin), Google launched an Irish language version of its email service gmail. Among the people who made this possible was alumna Kristen Sheets. Since her graduation in Spring 2014, Kristen has been working with Google doing localization and the Irish project was one of the principal ones that she has so far been involved in. Kristen has this to say about the project:

I’m always very excited when I get to work, even peripherally, on projects translating into minority/endangered languages. There are obviously other more ‘promotional’ issues at play here, but I think allowing people to use the internet/internet applications in their native language is a really worthwhile endeavor.