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Join us for Global WordPress Translation Day – April 24th, 2016

For the past four months the amazing WordPress Polyglots team  has been busy arranging Global WordPress Translation Day – a WordPress contributor day solely focused on translating WordPress and understanding the processes behind software internationalization and localization.

The event has multiple layers and aims to entertain and educate. Its main objective is to bring more people on board to help WordPress get to more people around the world.

WordPress is available for translation in 162 languages and the core project is 100% translated to 54 of them and more than 50% translated to 36. Another 72 locales are in progress or early development.

 

True polyglot Wapuu refreshing his 162 language skills preparing for Sunday
Wapuu speaks 160 languages, currently refreshing his skills preparing for Sunday

Events

Thirty-seven contributor days have been planned in different cities around the world and 11 more are organised remotely. Countries like India, Japan, Italy, Germany and Greece have multiple events going on in several different cities.

Everyone willing to participate can tune in online in the #Polyglots Slack channel and get help translating their favorite plugins, themes or WordPress itself.

Wonder if there’s an event near you? See the map and find out. But if there isn’t one, don’t worry – the team will be available to help you get started on the Polyglots Slack channel and Online during live sessions thanks to Crowdcast.

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Sharing knowledge: 24 hours of live streaming sessions on i18n & L10n

Starting at 0:00 UTC on April 24th, there will be 24 live sessions, one starting each hour, focused on translating WordPress or preparing your products for translation. Each session will be recorded and available to watch whenever you decide to join the streaming. The content is focused on helping translation contributors but also plugin and theme authors, who want to add their products to the official WordPress repository and have them available for translation at http://translate.wordpress.org.

Live sessions for translators

Learn about the tools and best practices when translating WordPress. Meet the Polyglots team and learn how to become a contributor. Meet some of the most experienced WordPress translation editors and attend online tutorials about translating WordPress in your own language.

Online instructions for translating will be available in English, Japanese, Hindi, Bulgarian, Slovak, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Spanish as spoken in Venezuela.

What if your language is not available yet? You can request it and become a translation editor yourself.

Live sessions for developers

How to create a translation community around your plugins and themes? How to prepare them for translating and how to get them added to translate.wordpress.org, where 5000 people are already translating every day?

How do WordPress language packs work? What is the future of the translation management platform of WordPress and is WordPress core going multilingual?

You can find all these answers in the several i18n sessions we have in store for you from experienced plugin developers and WordPress core contributors – WordPress 4.6 release lead and Polyglots technical lead Dominik Schilling, WordPress core developer and 4.1 release lead John Blackbourn, Claudio Sanches, author of more than 40 plugins in the plugin repository.

Participants

More than 1200 people have signed up to take part in the event – whether by attending local events, remote events or watching live sessions. Attendees (so far) represent 105 countries all over the world.

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See you there!

P.S. The WordPress Global Translation Day Live Streaming is inspired by the amazing work of Scott Basgaard on WordSesh. Thank you for all your help, advice and support.

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#WCEU 2014 Video & personal recap

In 2014 I had the privilege to help organise WordCamp Europe 2014 in my home city of Sofia alongside some of the most amazing people from the WordPress community.

I had the most wonderful, intense, fun & exhausting September.

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Hosting this event has been a life changing experience. It’s given me a new perspective on things and pushed me to grow – both professionally and personally. It further opened my eyes about the level of awesome that is the community behind WordPress. In a couple of weeks it turned people I barely knew into friends for life. And it made me want to dedicate even more time to the project.

The spirit of WCEU is captured perfectly in this recap video by the wonderful Kaarel Veike:

I don’t remember much of my interview. It happened at the end of Contributor day on Monday, the third and final day of the event. I was already going on auto pilot after almost a month of sleeping less than three hours per night. I remember bits and pieces – talking about how easy it is to fall in love with the WordPress community, the inspiration of Leiden and how Tina and I turned from volunteers to organisers. I remember failing to think of a way to express my feelings about WordPress in Bulgarian which so many other people did beautifully. And I remember talking about our amazing volunteers a lot.

Tina and I. Volunteers in Leiden in 2013, organisers in Sofia in 2014.
Tina and I. Volunteers in Leiden in 2013, organisers in Sofia in 2014.

There’s one thing that didn’t make the final cut and I’d like to say it here.

If you are an event organiser, get to know your volunteers

No matter if you organise a local or a global, multinational event, your volunteers are your closest allies and your next co-organisers. And you should mentor them and encourage them to do more, to help bring the community together and share the knowledge and passion for Free Software. That’s the way to keep the ecosystem healthy.

WCEU 2014 org team by Kaladan
WordCamp Europe 2014 organisers and volunteers. Photo by Vladimir Kaladan Petkov

WordCamp Europe 2015 will be announced in the next couple of weeks

If you want to host WordCamp Europe in your city in 2016, join the organising team for 2015 as volunteers. Let us know you are interested so we can give you bigger responsibilities and get you ready. Don’t be shy to talk to the WCEU team on Twitter or Facebook.

You will always get a reply.

See you at #WCEU 2015!

Love,
Petya

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WordCamp Europe 2014 – save the cool places

I really love that all of you guys are coming to Sofia for WordCamp Europe.

(And those of you who are not, what’s wrong with you!)

And because you’re such a fantastic crowd, I’m gonna make your lives a little better and introduce you to some of the coolest places in Sofia.

Foursquare lists!

Just save them and forget about browsing for a decent place to eat or hang out. All the places are in a 20 min walk radius from the event venue and have been personally tested multiple times. So you’re safe. Now go save!

List: WordCamp Europe 2014 places

First things first: The venue, contributor day venue, after party venue & other useful stuff

List: Coffee in Sofia

Coffee lovers, this list is for you. You’re in luck too – best coffee place in Sofia is 5 floors down from the conference halls.

List: Eat in Sofia

Hungry? Selected recommendations about great places to eat. Personally tested and approved.

List: Veggie Sofia

Vegetarian? Same thing as above, no meat.

List: Night out Sofia

Thirsty? This is where the cool kids hang out. Join in.

Enjoy!

 

P.S. If you have any questions about Sofia, ping the very cool dudes from DevriX

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On Contributing to Open Source Projects

Nikolay writes about how he started contributing to Open Source projects and what doing it for the last 10 years has taught him. It’s a very inspiring and practical piece. Like the guy.

I have the beginning of my own story to tell. Seven years ago someone who came to the company I worked for from the Open Source scene in Sofia found me and taught me the basics of what I am today as a professional. It’s the same soft skills Nikolay talks about, the same culture built around open source values.

Bottom line is:

You learn to be motivated for the right reasons

So today, thanks to three inspiring guys who all got their values from Open Source, I’m neck deep into this, this, this and this. My job is building cool stuff with WordPress, I try to give back by translating it and spreading the love, I dedicate my free time to plan and develop open source solutions that can hopefully help change the publishing and media scene in Bulgaria.

And it’s for the right reasons.

How about you?