Well, I wish I could be there, I hope this happens (the brainstorm, as well as getting i18n into Drupal core). Here in Canada, most sites I work on require some degree of bilinguality (English and French, each one slightly different in their specific translation requirements). Can I throw in a few ideas? 1. the i18n module was split into two parts in 4.7 - one that just does multilingual content, and a separate one that does translation. I think this was a great development because I think the multilingual part could go in core with less overhead for those not requiring it, and then the translation could still be a contributed module. Also the translation part is still funky around the edges. 2. when revisions came out in 4.7 I thought - what a perfect mechanism for implementing translations - a translation is really just a revision in another language (a conceptual idea that's not necessarily a good technical idea, but I thought I'd stir the pot). 3. translating categories - is there a canonical way to do this that works for all use cases? Specifically: in my multilingual implementations categories sometimes need separate terms for different languages, and are sometime language-neutral. That makes for bad things like applying t() to user-input taxonomies. Or are multilingual sites always going to be complicated? 4. sorting out string translations. What to do with translating dynamic strings? I hope someone can post whatever transpires, I'll volunteer for followup. - Alan On 9/20/06, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello world,

if there are Drupal people in Brussels that want to brainstorm a little about multi-lingual Drupal sites (and how to get i18n into Drupal core), feel free to join us at GovCamp tomorrow:

http://govcamp.org/index.php/Main_Page http://govcamp.org/index.php/GovCamp_Brussels

We'll have a dedicated Drupal brainstorm room from 16:00h to 18:00h. Afterwards, we'll go for drinks in The Wild Geese:

http://drupalcon.org/node/14

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