WordPress Internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) happens through the Polyglot Project, which is driven by a team of passionate volunteers who take care of the translations for a specific language.
WordPress being an Open Source project, i18n and l10n is very important. Having WordPress available in all possible local languages makes it accessible to everyone.
This panel discussion will focus on the Polyglots team’s efforts in India and possible direction of WordPress translations specifically in a diverse country like India with so many languages with so many varieties of scripts.
The experts on this panel are:
Bigul Malayi
Bigul hails from Kozhikode, Kerala. He started his web development journey as a PHP developer in 2005 and has been working with WordPress since 2008. Bigul credits WordPress for his bread and butter. He is an organizer of WordPress Kochi and Kozhikode communities. He works for OnThGo Systems(the makers of WPML and Toolset) since 2012 January. Currently working in WPML Support Team.
Naoko Takano
Naoko is a community and localization project manager at Automattic. She is a full-time sponsored WordPress volunteer for Polyglots and Community teams, and loves helping users around translation and building local communities.
Vaidehi Singh Sharma
Vaidehi is working at Blazeclan Technologies as a Marketing Manager. She believes she is in love with WordPress as this software has helped her grow professionally and personally. Speaking of her contributions to the WordPress community, she has spoken in a few WordCamps, contributed to Hindi Translations at WordPress.org, provided solutions on WordPress.com forums, and gave free WordPress training to a few colleagues, friends, and students. Because she has learned so much from the community, she believes that now it’s her turn to give back.
Chandra Patel
Chandra is the Director of Engineering at rtCamp and also leads their internal training program. He started his WordPress journey in 2014 as a freelance Web Developer. Since then, Chandra has grown to become a WordPress Core Contributor, Translation Contributor, and has contributed to WordPress Meta projects.
Nidhi Jain
Nidhi Jain is a Developer, and currently, she is working as a Technical Support Specialist at WPBeginner. She’s been working with WordPress since 2014 and started her career with theme development and giving support on WordPress forums. She is passionate about her work and always help around the WP community. Her enthusiasm for the WordPress community has meant she is constantly discovering how she can contribute to the numerous teams.
