Global WordPress Translation Day to be Hosted by Polyglots Team
The Polyglots team is inviting everyone to the 2nd Global WordPress Translation Day to be held on November 12, 2016. The first event held last April was a success. The first event had 448 participants from more than 105 participating countries to online streaming sessions and live meetups. The contributors worked on more than 160 languages.
WordPress translation day 2 will start at 0:00 UTC with a live opening session from Tokyo, Japan. The first event focused on developing the translation teams and educating new translators with the use of live training sessions. This is where everyone involved worked together for the first time as a team. This made a huge impact on the WordPress community, bringing more contributors over.
This event will still follow the same routine as the first one last April. It will feature 24 hours of live streaming about localization and internalization for those who are joining in the comforts of their own home. They will organize in-person translation from contributors in more than different 50 locations.
WordPress themes developers and translators will work hand in hand to reach a common goal in this event. Not only that, beginner and advanced sessions will be conducted to help new contributors learn to translate. It will also feature more advanced technical sessions for developers.
The Polyglots are busy working to expand WordPress usage to other areas of the globe. The second Global WordPress Translation Day aims to make everyone feel included. Their team is currently expanding more and more each year and is still learning to work together. There will be 1,247 translation editors and thousands of contributors participating in their team effort.
New contributors are encouraged to join the event so they can learn how to translate WordPress in their own language.This goes the same with new and experienced translation editors as there will be sessions focused on providing useful tips and building a strong translation team.
However, contributors aren’t the only ones who are going to benefit from this. Developers who would like to find translators for their projects and would like to work with the Polyglots team are also invited. They will learn how to prepare their plugins and themes for localization. Or if you are just someone interested in knowing the work of the Polyglots team, you are free to join.
You can join on November 12th in your own timezone by translating WordPress and your favorite plugins and themes or go to a local event. For those who want to remotely join, you can do so by watching live sessions and remove events. You can also be a speaker during Global WordPress Translation Day by suggesting a topic.
You can find more information here.
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