Agenda for the Polyglots chat on Nov 9th

Dear polyglots,

This is the short agenda for the chat today, focused on #WPTranslationDay this Saturday:

• 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
• WPTranslation Day Local events
  • Announcing them
  • Promoting them
• WP Translation Day Live Stream
  • Register for the event on CrowdCast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/gwtd2
  • Promote the event on Crowdcast locally – on your RosettaRosetta The code name of the theme for the local WordPress sites (eg. bg.wordpress.org is a “Rosetta” site). All locale specific WordPress sites are referred to as “Rosetta sites.” The name was inspired from the ancient Rosetta Stone, which contained more or less the same text in three different languages. sites or social channels
  • Community sessions – get involved – tell the world when you’ll be on
  • Announcing speakers
  • Speaker trial runs on Friday
• WP Translation Day data:
  • How many teams got WordPress to 100%
  • How many stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. got translated
  • How many new contributors we got
  • How many new GTEGeneral Translation Editor A General Translation Editor (often referred to as GTE) is a person, who has global access to validate strings on all projects for a specific locale. and PTEs we got
  • How many projects got stringString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. translated
  • How many localesLocale 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/ got new contributors
  • What else? Ideas?
• WP Translation Day Organisers ToDo

See you in #polyglots on 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/. at 11am UTC.

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