Agenda: Americas Polyglots Chat – November 6, 2019 (21:30 GMT)

Here’s the agenda for our first monthly chat in an American friendly time!

This meeting will be held at November 6, 2019, 21:30 UTC in the #polyglots channel in the “Making WordPress” 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/.. If you are not able to join at this time, then you can add any questions and/or comments you may have as a comment to this post and afterwards read the backlog in the Slack channel. We plan to have this meeting the first Wednesday every month.
(If you still haven’t joined “Making WordPress Slack”, please do it now via https://make.wordpress.org/chat/)

• Weekly 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
• WordPress 5.3:
  • The release is scheduled for beginning of November
  • It is available for translation, and currently in hard string freezeString freeze The term "string freeze" is used by the core team to mark the end of changes to the strings of an upcoming release. A string freeze also means that there will be no more strings added to the core project. Sometimes a string freeze has two phases a soft freeze and a hard freeze. A string freeze is announced on the Polyglots blog by the current release lead. (i.e. hopefully no new stringsString A string is a translatable part of the software. A translation consists of a multitude of localized strings. before the release).
  • Also keep an eye on the new standard theme Twenty Twenty and the plugins Health Check and Gutenberg.
  • Also: If you’ve got commit access to your locale under https://i18n.wordpress.org/ then please make sure that you have created a directory “5.3” under /branches/ in accordance with the instructions for automated releases in our handbook.
• Coming 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/
  • Bolivia https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2019/11/03/hello-polyglots-261/ (@derechoteca)
  • Ecuador: https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2019/04/25/locale-es_ec/ (@Jorge_88, @francogiardina, @fsabate)
  • Guarani https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2019/07/31/hi-guys-im-currently-working/ (@hubmei)
  • Paraguay https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2019/10/28/request-a-locale-paraguayan-spanish/ (@janpark, @pakchano)
  • https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/requesting-a-new-locale/
• Cooperation between locales
  • WP Polyglots Facilitator tool, by @amieiro
  • Other ideas. How to increase cooperation between Latin American languages.
• Mentoring circles for GTEs
• Polyglots Handbook feedback on #polyglots
• HelpHub i18nInternationalization Internationalization (sometimes shortened to I18N , meaning “I - eighteen letters -N”) is the process of planning and implementing products and services so that they can easily be adapted to specific local languages and cultures, a process called localization. This is the process of making software translatable. Information about Internationalization for developers can be found in the Developer’s handbooks.
• Annual Survey: answer and ask more users/volunteers/developers to answer the annual survey. More info here. (This year you can even take it in Spanish.)
• Open Floor

Leave a comment if you’d like to add something else to the agenda.

New Locale Requests authors pinged above and everyone else willing to participate will be very welcomed!

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