Multilingual Drupal working group

Hi all,

Following Boris' suggestion in the latest thread about
Drupal + i18n in
this mailing list, I think we need some kind of working
group to focus
on this task. For which I'd like to appoint the same people
he does +
... anyone else interested?

Boris Mann wrote:
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I  agree that no hacks/patches should be the main goal for
clean multi-
lingual solutions. Actually, a dedicated multi-lingual
support team  is
probably a good idea -- Jose, Ber, Ben, Mike Gifford,
Khalid, 
Development Seed off the top of my head, with Jose with my
nomination 
for lead (he's been living the pain since something like
4.5) -- What 
do you guys need in terms of support from Drupal.org in
order to move 
forward?
*****************

I think we could start by preparing a nice DEP - Which I am
already
doing- , and then, after discussing about the architecture,
modules,
etc, be ready to start producing code as soon as Drupal 4.7
is out and
the development is open again.

Then we'd need some repository in which we could branch the
code and
work together so we can later merge all the changes back
into Drupal, a
test site, and some communications channel -forum, mailing
list, plain
email?- to coordinate.

So, for the next days I'll be picking ideas from all the
posts that have
been written about the issue, and then I'll be posting some
DEP draft...

Best regards,

Jose

On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:28 am, Jose A. Reyero wrote:
>
> Then we'd need some repository in which we could
branch the code and
> work together so we can later merge all the changes
back into Drupal, a
> test site, and some communications channel -forum,
mailing list, plain
> email?- to coordinate.
>
> So, for the next days I'll be picking ideas from all
the posts that have
> been written about the issue, and then I'll be posting
some DEP draft...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jose

Although I only speak (read, write, etc.) English, I'd be
willing to help with 
testing or whatever as this matures.  I am currently
maintaining a site that 
I would really like a good multilingual aspect to: http://www.sourcemage.org/


-- 
Jason Flatt
http://www.oadae.net/
Father of Six:  http://www.flattfamily.co
m/ (Joseph, 13; Cramer, 11; Travis, 
9; Angela; Harry, 5; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005)
Linux User:     http://www.sourcemage.org/

Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/

This sounds just like what I need to get back on track with
Drupal Dev.

Count on me!

What is the status on this? Is the translations group on
groups.drupal.org where this working group  is ( going to
be) meeting?

Thanks,
-K