Drupal 9 Localization Server Upgrade Initiative - Improving Translation Tools for the Drupal Community

Explore the ongoing initiative to upgrade the Drupal community translation server (localize.drupal.org) from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 in this 22-minute conference talk by the Drupal Association. Learn about the volunteer-driven project that began at Drupal Dev Days in Ghent in April 2022, building upon previous work by Tobias Bähr. Discover the importance of this platform for Drupal's infrastructure and its role in providing translations for Drupal installations in various languages. Gain insights into the project's first phase, which focuses on porting existing features, as well as future plans to improve the user interface, provide web services for language statistics, address crediting issues, and potentially integrate a translation memory tool. Understand the significance of this initiative for translation teams across different linguistic and cultural communities, and learn how to contribute as a volunteer. Appreciate the relevance of this talk in the context of Europe's multilingual landscape, echoing Umberto Eco's sentiment that 'the language of Europe is translation'.