It is happening again! On September 30th, international translation day, we’re inviting everyone who wants to help translate WordPress, themes, and plugins into their own language, to join us for a 24-hour global translation sprint!

What are we doing?

For everyone who’s new to the Translation Day events, here’s a summary of what we do during one:

• Local translation contributor days – on site events in different cities around the world (last time we had more than 60, let’s beat that!)
• Remote support for as many languages as possible to help contributors who would like to join from their home
• 24 hours of live streaming sessions dedicated to different topics around WordPress localization and internationalization (L10n and i18n).

Who are the sessions for?

• Everyone who would like to learn how to translate WordPress in their language
• New and experienced translation editors – the sessions will have useful tips and advice how to build and maintain a strong translation team
• Developers who would like to find translators for their projects – the sessions will teach you how to work with the polyglots team and how to build a translation community around your products
• Developers who would like to learn how to prepare their plugins and themes for localization
• Everyone who would like to learn how translations work in WordPress and get a general idea of the work of the Polyglots team.

When is it happening?

On September 30th, 2017, starting at exactly 00:00 UTC. (See when the event starts for you!)

Please see all relevant details on our event website.

Why are we doing it?

• To have fun and get to know each other better.
• To encourage more translation contributors to get involved and expand the WordPress Polyglots team
• To educate existing translation contributors and project translation editors to reduce the amount of waiting strings.
• To improve the general understanding of how WordPress deals with translations among the development community
• To create strong connections between the plugin and theme authors and the WordPress translation community
• To educate translation editors to use the existing tools to improve the experience.

How can you join?

• Translate – Just join us on September 30th in your own timezone and translate WordPress or your favorite plugins and themes to your language at http://translate.wordpress.org and perhaps even see your translation go live on your own WordPress site.
• Watch live sessions at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gwtd3/
  
• Organize a local event – put your name down for organizing an event in the “Local events” tab on the GWTD3 org spreadsheet and fill in your local events details in the form on wptranslationday.org
• Organize a remote event – put your name down for organizing a remote event in the “Remote events” tab on the GWTD3 org spreadsheet
• Join the organizing team of Global WordPress Translation Day –  simply join the special slack channel!
• Speak – Become a speaker during Global WordPress Translation Day – suggest a topic by filling this short survey

Looking forward to contributing with you. Happy translating! 

Birgit
Global Polyglots team mentor
Lead for communication – Global WordPress Translation Day organizing team

P.S Important links:

• Organizer spreadsheet: https://goo.gl/M9Vszp
• CrowdCast event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gwtd3/
• WPTranslationDay official website: https://wptranslationday.org/
• Call for Speaker poll: https://wptranslationday.org/call-for-speaker/
• Call for local events: https://wptranslationday.org/add-local-events/
• [Guide] Organize a local event on Global WordPress Translation Day
• Events Slack Channel: #polyglots-events
• WP Polyglots Twitter: https://twitter.com/translatewp
• Follow #wptranslationday

Further reading

Want to read more about previous Translation Days, watch videos and learn how they were organized? Here are a few links:

• Translation Day 1 results and recap
• Translation Day 2 results and recap
• A Guide to your local translation day
• Videos from WordPress Translation Day 1
• Videos from WordPress Translation Day 2

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