If your locale team or meetup group is planning a translation contribution mini-event, don’t forget to submit it using this form (more info).
Europe
Portuguese Translation Team
Locale Name – (Portugal) / pt_PT
Event Date – September 9, 2021
Event Time – 21:00-23:00 UTC+1 (20:00-22:00 UTC)
Organizer – Pedro Mendonça
During this event, you will learn how to contribute to the Portuguese translation of WordPress and your favorite Themes and Plugins. Come and join the Portuguese Translation team!
Italian Translation Team
Locale Name – Italian / it_IT
Event Date – September 9, 16, and 23, 2021
Event Time – 19:00 UTC+2 (17:00 UTC)
Organizers – Luisa Ravelli
They are going to have a very short presentation of their work followed by a live translation session.
WordPress Moscow
Locale Name – Russian / ru_RU
Event Date – September 11, 2021
Event Time – 12:00-15:00 UTC+3 (9:00-12:00 UTC)
Organizer – Denis Yanchevskiy
They will choose a popular plugin or theme and try to translate it together in real-time on a YouTube stream. Participants will be able to communicate and ask questions using the chat in Discord.
Belarus WP Translation Day Online
Locale Name – Belarusian / bel
Event Date – September 24, 2021
Event Time – 15:00-18:00 UTC+3 (12:00-15:00 UTC)
Organizer – Vitali Mayerau
They will translate the wpvivid plugin into Belarusian. Show & tell you how to translate WordPress plugins and themes, and how to start translating into your native language.
French Translation Team
Locale Name – French (France) / fr_FR
Event Date – September 24, 2021
Event Time – 14:00-19:00 UTC+2 (12:00-17:00 UTC)
Organizer – JB Audras, FX Bénard, Didier Demory, Jenny Dupuy and other contributors to the french community
Welcome and self-introduction of participants, presentation of the French team, and the translate.wordpress.org tool. Choice of projects by the participants and live translation and validation of the contributor suggestions, questions, and answers. Fun quiz. Links to the slideshows will be shared with all participants as they join us.
Bulgarian Translation Team
Locale Name – Bulgarian / bg_BG
Event Date – September 30, 2021
Event Time – 16:00 UTC+3 (13:00 UTC)
Organizers – Vladimir Vassilev
They will start with an intro for the beginner translators and those who have not been onboarded to the locale guidelines and usual way of writing and testing translations efficiently. Then they will focus on translating as much as possible from WordPress Core, WooCommerce, and any other significant project that we pick on the spot.
South America
Brazilian Community
Locale Name – Portuguese (Brazil) / pt_BR
Event Date – September 17, 2021, and September 18, 2021
Organizer – Felipe Santos, Allyson Souza, and other Brazilian community contributors
They will open a room on Zoom during the days of the event, Slack channel, and promote on their meetups.
Asia
Jakarta WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Indonesian / id_ID
Event Date – September 1-30,2021
Event Time – Flexible hours
Organizers – Agus Muhammad, Ascencia Fike, Devin Maeztri, Dedy Sofyan, Irfan Nurhamid, Ivan Kristianto, Kharis Sulistiyono, Robi Erwin Setiawan.
The team has been trying to invite more participants by translating popular plugins. Those plugin names are mentioned in the event’s description to make clear what new contributors will be doing the events. In addition, some GTEs will be working on glossaries, reducing queues in the Waiting list, documentations, and new GTE onboarding.
Tokyo WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Japanese / ja
Event Date – September 5-12, 2021
Event Time – Zoom meeting will be at 15:00-16:30 UTC+9 (4:00-5:30 UTC) on Sunday, September 5.
Organizers – Naoko Takano and Akira Tachibana
They are having a week-long translation contribution event, like last year. There will be a Zoom meeting at the beginning and a Slack coworking session on Friday.
Taoyuan WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Chinese (Taiwan) / zh_TW
Event Date – September 25, 2021
Event Time – 13:00-16:00 UTC+8(4.30 UTC – 11.30 UTC)
Organizer – Huanyi Chuang
They’ll have a 30-min style guide tutorial by the GTE and will have people try to localize the handbook documents on Make WordPress.
Kochi WordPress Meetup, Trivandrum WordPress Meetup, Kozhikode WordPress Meetup, Palakkad WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Malayalam / ml_IN
Event Date – September 11, 2021, and September 25, 2021
Event Time – September 11, 18:00-19:00 UTC+5:30 (12.30 – 13.30 UTC) , and September 25, 10:00-4:00 UTC+5:30(4.30 UTC – 11.30 UTC)
Organizer – Hari Shanker, Bigul Malayi, Aravind Ajith, Nebu John, Ajith R N, Jose Varghese, Nithin K R
On September 11, they will be having a short session for new contributors, introducing them to WordPress translations and giving them an overview of things. On September 25 they plan to organize a full-day translation sprint, contributors will be spending the entire month translating WordPress and approving new strings. Their goal is to get the Malayalam (ml_IN) locale to at least 90% completed for the 5.8 Project.
Ajmer WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Hindi / hi_IN
Event Date – September 18, 2021
Event Time – 15:00-18:00 UTC+5:30 (11:30-14:30 UTC)
Organizer – Anand Upadhyay
The plan is to encourage some users for contributing to polyglots, and try to fill the missing translations for Hindi Locale in WordPress core and various themes and plugins.
Bengaluru WordPress Meetup Group
Locale Name – Kannada / kn
Event Date – September 18, 2021 & September 25, 2021
Organizer – SURESHA N
On the first Saturday, they will be onboarding new contributors to get them ready to contribute the next Saturday. They are planning to encourage a wide range of participants, including high school students.
WordPress Bangkok Meetup
Locale Name – Thai / th
Event Date – September 19, 2021 & September 26, 2021
Event Time – 13:00-18:00 UTC+7 (6:00-11:00 UTC)
Organizers – Pantip Treerattanapitak
Having a speaker session, onboarding, workshop, and wrap-up.
Dhaka WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Bengali (Bangladesh) / bn_BD
Event Date – September 25, 2021
Event Time – 19:00-21:00 UTC+6 (13:00-15:00 UTC)
Organizers – Sekander Badsha and Mehedi Hassan
The team will share with the participants the basic idea of contributing on WordPress, how to contribute to the localization/translation project, and getting plugins and themes ready for translation.
Tehran WordPress Meetup
Locale Name – Persian / fa_IR
Event Date – September 26, 2021
Event Time – 11:00-13:00 UTC
Organizers – Morteza Geransayeh and Saeed Fard
The team will be focusing on onboarding new contributors and review.