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Tips for contacting all organizers: Go to the Photos tab on Meetup.com chapter page and use “Contact” link on the left sidebar
Reminders
Trello board – It’s not mandatory to subscribe to it. You can turn the notification off if you’d like (Click your avatar on the right top > Settings > Notifications)
Please contact @nao if teams need more hands or volunteers want to help out more – she will coordinate to close the gap.
We will upgrade to the Crowdcast Professional plan ($89 for 250 attendees and the additional cost is 30¢/person) for one month. WPMU DEV will be sponsoring the cost
@webcommsat asked @casiepa and the Livestreaming Team about YouTube multistreaming on WPTV channel
This was the fifth weekly meeting for WordPress Translation Day 4 (Saturday, May 11, 2019) Here’s the meeting archive link. (This post includes some discussionn before & after the meeting as well).
Make sure to join & follow the event’s Trello board. Ask @webcommsat or @nao for access.
Always refer to the event date as “May 11” not 11/5 or 5/11 to avoid confusion.
The official event title is “WordPress Translation Day 4” (“Global” is removed) and social media hashtag is #WPTranslationDay.
Updates from Design Team
@zetaraffix shared 2 mocks for the front page and asked for feedback.
I would like to focus on pushing the data visualization as much as we can, giving last year’s work an updated look but without wasting too much time on disruption.
The team continued discussion after the meeting about the direction.
Updates from Web/Admin Team
@xkon said to work on the structure (basic setup is the same as last year) + extra pages by the end of the week.
He asked @sergeybiryukov to take a look at map visualization tool http://kepler.gl/
March 9th is the expected date for getting application forms for local event organizers and speakers ready on the live site.
Livestream Session Idea
@tobifjellner‘s idea: collect i18n questions from developers (on the wptranslationday.org website?) and have an interactive Q&A/AMA panel.
Updates from Outreach Team
@jordicuevas is working on call for local event organizers P2 post and will be sharing the draft (Google Docs) with @webcommsat. Post to be published after the initial site launch since application form link needs to be live.
Timeline
@zetaraffix shared a rough timeline doc with dates for web/comm/design teams. Onboarding schedule and deadlines for calls/selections/content are to be added. Please add comments.
Important Upcoming Dates
March 7: Design fix [Design Team]
March 9: Initial site launch [Web/Admin Team]
March 9 (? or within a day or so): Call for local event organizers P2 post [Comm & Outreach Team]
Save the date – Saturday, 11 May 2019 will be the 4th edition of Global WordPress Translation Day (GWTD4).
This 24-hour global event will be dedicated to the translation of all things WordPress, from core to themes, and from plugins to marketing.
The event will be a celebration of the Make WordPress Polyglots Team, shining a spotlight on the thousands of volunteers worldwide who give their time and skills to make this online platform available to even more people.
During the last Global WordPress Translation Day, 71 local events took place worldwide, involving 29 countries.
@gounder – proposed to have the Locale of the speaker in the call for speakers form
@tobifjellner – said he can coordinate speakers and topics.
Timeline
work on the speaker/local event application forms and privacy statement.
Have a meetup template setup.
link the call for speakers and organize event google forms in the march MeetUp newsletter.
The Outreach/Mentor team will get the call for organizers for the next planning meeting.
Design ideas
website team will get started right away based on last year’s theme and layout
The design team will review the theme and layout from GWTD3 WordPress, and being aware of brand building propose a change in the color schema and typography.
One of our main goals for GWTD is to get more people involved in translating. But just posting call for meetup organizers isn’t usually enough.
Outreach team can help by talking to more locale teams and inviting them to organize local events, prepare for the meetup, and mentor new or inexperienced GTEs
@jordicuevas, Local Team Lead, to arrange to contact GTEs and meet with the team
@jordicuevas requested to identify regions and teams that can use some helping hands and assign team members to reach out to them directly (@nao)
Marketing/ Communications – Discussion on finding to capture data from this research and to identify the GTEs who needed operational and marketing information, and for this to be done in a good data handling manner. This could also be used for enabling them to offer marketing ideas, advise of their promotions and provide quotes or short videos for the wider publicity.
Register of interest form – discussed for translators to be able to register for information about the event and partipating
Call for organizers – on the P2 and through other identified channel (further discussion to be arranged between local and communications teams)
Website
https://wptranslationday.org/htmlarchive/gwtd03/
Register of interest form to be updated including data handling and permissions statement, year, etc
privacy page to be created
call for organizers
Website
Community-events MeetUp Newsletter
Request to be sent to include GWTD4 date and deadline for future issues before the event
Storage of files and for future events
Discussion of where could store paperwork in draft, visual assets to be of more use to the existing planning, GWTD4 and future events.
Discussion on whether there was a shared MakeWordPress area, if the MakeWordPress website had a system of collating form information easily in the same way as WordCamps websites for processing requests for RSS feeds or volunteer submissions.
Post meeting, @casiepa shared a link to a Google shared folder for the current team.
A trello board has been created in draft by @abhanonstopnewsuk which captured communications and marketing elements emerging. Contact her to be added to the board with your Trello ID and email address it is inked.
@audrasjb started a base architecture for the website. Will add a card to the Trello board with a link to the google doc. Has a few question about the Github repository access and also about the siteground server access to. Base architecture is at a design-free stage. @casiepa to look at what information SiteGround paperwork he has. The site is a flat, html site at the moment
Sub groups can create tools which assist them as long as they are linked, where appropriate, from the main organization channels.
The second meeting for Global WordPress Translation Day 4 (GWTD4, Saturday, May 11, 2019) started at 13:00 UTC and was closed at 14:15 (meeting archive).
Design/Communication Teams are combined (background).
Live Stream Content Team is small, so you’re welcome to help them out and/or switch over to the team. The role is similar to session team for WordCamps.
Teams are encouraged to have meetings and discussions on #polyglots-events Slack channel.
Event Format
Confirmed/Agreed
24-hour live stream with curated contents (live & recorded videos)
Local events during the 24-hour period
Ideas
Use the preceding week to promote awareness of translation-related activities (mentoring new translators and building resources such as getting started guide/ glossary/style guide)
Have several (pairs of?) local hosts run the live streaming as a team relay rather than a marathon
This was the first meeting to set up the team and consolidate decisions for the next edition of Global WordPress Translation Day, the 4th (GWTD4).
Event Date
After some discussion, an agreement was reached on the date: GWTD4 will be on Saturday, May 11, 2019.
Teams
A Google spreadsheet has been open for some time now for volunteers, teams and leads will be confirmed and official list disclosed in next meeting (February 12, 2019 13:00 UTC in #polyglots-events.
Meeting started at 13:00 UTC and was closed at 14:30 (#).
You can check out more posts on event planning and announcements through #GWTD tag.
When should we organize the next event?
September 30 was chosen last year because that date was declared as the International Translation Day by the United Nations General Assembly in May 2017.
There are some comments on Slack #polyglots-events that it will be too short of notice for us to start organizing the event now and having the event on Sept 30 again this year.
Maybe mid- to late-October could be a possibility?
Local Meetup Format
Offline & online translation contributor day events are the core of the Translation Day, when we all work on translating WordPress core and related project all around the world.
The basic guide is available on Polyglots Handbook page:
What kinds of live-streaming contents are useful/meaningful?
Contents type: Sessions, panels, interviews
Content language: English, locale languages
Type of speakers: GTEs, PTEs, translators with special skills, plugin/theme authors, meta developers, GlotPress developers, others?
Feedback & Volunteers Welcome!
If you have any thoughts or would like to be involved in the planning/organizing, please leave a comment on this post.
(Edit) We had these roles last year. The list may change because we are still determining the scope of the event – sharing just for FYI go get some ideas.
There have been small changes to several of the core/meta projects lately. A convenient way to check if you need to catch up on a few strings for WordPress core, Browse Happy, Plugin and Theme directory, etc. is to visit https://translate.wordpress.org/stats
Remember to regularly check if you’ve got any pending editor requests. As always, you can find them here (replace YOUR_LOCALE with your locale slug): https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/YOUR_LOCALE/?resolved=unresolved
Also remember to enable notifications for mentions of your locale on https://profiles.wordpress.org/YOUR-ORG-USERNAME/profile/notifications/
String freeze for WordPress 4.8.1. The release should have happened yesterday, but was postponed by one day. Many locales are already at 100% on the dev project, but quite a few still need to catch up. There are only some 10 strings new, so if you released 4.8, then this is a relatively quick task. Make sure that your locale is at 100%!
Global WordPress Translation Day 3: Call for speakers is open! Time to start planing your local translation event! Welcome to take part in the preparation work and planning. The next meeting for organizers will take place between the first and the second Polyglots weekly meeting Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 11:00 AM GMT+2 on #polyglots-events
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
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.
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.
Please respond to your editor requests: there are 34 open editor requests. You can find them here (replace YOUR_LOCALE): https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/tag/YOUR_LOCALE/?resolved=unresolved
String freeze for WordPress 4.8.1. There are a few new strings in WordPress that need to be translated before launch of WordPress 4.8.1. Make sure that your locale is at 100%!
Global WordPress Translation Day 3 Planning: The next meeting for organizers will take place between the first and the second Polyglots weekly meeting Wednesday 09:00 UTC on #polyglots-events
