Misja Hoebe :: Blog :: Celebrating the community

One of the areas where the Elgg community shows its brilliance is in the area of translations,  for which we are using the excellent Rosetta system. On regular intervals I check Rosetta on progress or to upload a translation which has been sent to us. Today I uploaded an updated Hungarian translation, and as usual took a closer look at the list of languages and the progress being made. I was amazed. Currently Elgg is being translated in a stunning 49 languages, probably making Elgg not only one of the most installed white label social networking tools, but surely also the most internationalized: a big thank you and well done to all the people who have been contributing to translations, bravo!

As we have been dropping little bits about the next release of Elgg I can say we will also be taking a really good look at translations, making it work even better and efficient. Some changes will need to happen, e.g. every module, or plugin will have its own translation file and strings will need to be more consistently constructed (there currently is much overlap). This will mean extra work initially, but the result will be smaller and more coherent translation files  which should be much easier to maintain. Expect a full announcement of things to come next week.

Things are really ramping up, you'll probably have read the announcement about Curverider securing investment. Apart from this helping me become official Curverider employee #3, I think more importantly it will give Elgg the extra boost to continue as a true open source, standards committed platform, but also in covering new grounds and setting new standards. But probably most importantly it will give us extra means to better serve and support the community with tools that matter. I'm definitely looking forward to the times ahead.