We're full in Translation Sprint

As mentioned in the initial post of our "Essence of a Web week" series, multilingual solutions are at the core of all of our projects. Despite lots of great improvements in Drupal 7, we are still losing valuable time on the rough edges of the multilingual system. To sort these issues out, the multilingual system's (i18n) co-maintainer Miro Dietiker, together with Jos Doekbrijder and our own Michael Schmid, organised a code sprint with the goal to create a module that simplifies the translation management for Drupal 7 and additionally integrates a possibility to work with 3rd party translation services such as Supertext, mygengo or Bing.

Just to give you a feeling of how big this event is: Based on the 100 pledged man days by the attendees for this week (16 - 22 January), we can estimate that the Drupal Community Switzerland, supported by our dear friends from Germany and Austria, will offer a module worth 200'000 Swiss Franc by Sunday night. (Well that’s the plan.)

Here are some impressions of the event:

(Photos by Michael Schmid)

I want to end by thanking the event’s main sponsor Microsoft for enabling this code sprint.