Agenda for the Polyglots chat on Jan 6th

Hey everyone & happy new year!!

Are you good started into the new year?

Here’s the agenda for the Polyglots chat today, 11 am UTC:

• LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ stats
• Tech update and release help
• Goals for 2016 – let’s line them up and figure out how to reach them
• Contributor survey for 2015 – http://wordpressdotorg.polldaddy.com/s/2015-wordpress-contributor-survey
• Open discussion
  • Legal consequences while translating
    • What if a translation contributorTranslation Contributor Translation Contributors (formerly known as Translators) are volunteers that focus on translating projects into their language. They contribute to improving their language either in a small way, like fixing a typo, or a large way, likes translating entire projects. finds some legal critical phrases in a theme or pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party?
    • Who is legally responsible for statements and texts in themes and plugins that are legally dubious? – developer, translation editorTranslation Editor Translation editors can approve translations for projects. The GTE (General Translation Editor) and LM (Locale Manager) roles can add new users with the "Project Translation Editor" role that can approve translations for specific projects. There are two different Translation Editor roles: General Translation Editor and Project Translation Editor or translation contributor?

If you’d like to add anything to the agenda, please comment below or show up for the open discussion at the end of the chat.

I’ll see you all in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.!

Cheers,

Birgit

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