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  • Apr 4, 2009
    DrupalCamp Centroamerica esta viniendo! Two weeks from today the first ever DrupalCamp Central America will be happening in Managua, Nicaragua at the Universidad Centroamericana on Saturday, April 18. The Central American Drupal community is getting...
  • Mar 23, 2009
    Recently I’ve been working on Drupal 7 core to make it more “multilingual friendly,” as well as on a new Internationalization release for Drupal 6 that has some needed features. In this post, I’ll update you on where we are...
  • Jun 12, 2008

    Drill Down Faceted Searches Based on Language

    Sometimes it's easy to forget that less than half the web is in English. However, when managing large sites in multiple languages, it's good to be constantly aware of what language you're working with. That's why we wrote internationalization...
  • Mar 24, 2008

    Getting Webforms Into Arabic and Other Right-to-Left Languages

    Ever think about trying out Drupal's right-to-left (RTL) language support for languages like Arabic or Hebrew? We got to test it out for a project we're working on with the SEEP Network, a support system for microfinance and microenterprise...
  • Feb 26, 2008

    How the Internationalization Package Will Help with Translations

    There have been some big advances made in multilanguage support in the latest release of Drupal. As you may have seen, Drupal 6 is multilingual, and it really does a nice job of handling languages and content translations. However, it does still...
  • Oct 29, 2007

    Streamlining the Translation Process for Multilingual Websites

    Recently we built a multilingual website for the International Council on Archives. Training their staff on how to use the website drove home - again - just how bulky it was to translate text in multilingual Drupal websites. So last week I worked on...
  • Oct 19, 2007

    Making It Possible To Collect User Information in Five Languages

    The United Nations Millennium Campaign gathered millions of people around the world this week to stand up against poverty and in support of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. We were heavily involved in developing the Stand Up Speak Out campaign...
  • Sep 24, 2007

    International Development, Agriculture, and Smarter Tools

    I just landed in Rome for the Web2forDev conference where I was invited to speak on how social software can be used to connect geographically diverse teams. The timing of the conference is fantastic. It’s eAgriculture week here in Rome, so I suspect...
  • Sep 20, 2007

    Drupal About Halfway To Being Fully Multilingual

    The Multilingual Drupal session was held yesterday afternoon at DrupalCon Barcelona. The big news of the session was that we officially changed the status of the mission to make Drupal fully multilingual from "making progress" to "about halfway...
  • Sep 15, 2007

    And Our Presentations on Multilingual Drupal, SMS, and Aggregation

    Greetings from Barcelona. I'm sitting above Las Ramblas in Barcelona, five stories up in a loft with a cross breeze coming off the Mediterranean. It’s a pretty nice place to sit and work, fortunately. Truthfully, I know I'll have to return to...