Jose Reyero

A bit late, I know, but here's the material and links from the Session Florian Loretan and I did in Drupalcon London 2011 last month.

The video from the session: Multilingual Drupal Solutions: Use Cases and Modules

Here are the slides: Multilingual Drupal Solutions: Use Cases and Modules[PDF]

And by popular request, though it was intended just as an example, here is the Drupal Multilingual Features and Modules Matrix [Google Docs]

See you next at Drupalcamp Spain in Seville, October 1st, where I will be presenting a similar session, this time in Spanish: Construyendo sitios web multilingües con Drupal 7. Casos y módulos.

Last week I came back from Brussels Drupal Dev Days, which has been a great gathering of Drupal developers. We were more than 500 people, the organization and the sessions were great -and the parties too- and I think it was a great success.

In Brussels I presented this session, with Olivier Jacquet: State of Internationalization in Drupal 7. He talked about all multilingual related improvements in Drupal 7 and some new modules (Entity Translation) and then I talked about how Internationalization module is being upgraded for Drupal 7.

I'm still here in León but getting everyting ready for flying to Paris tomorrow. I'll arrive on Wednesday evening so I'm afraid I'm missing the first day.

This year I'm not doing any session, I'm taking a break. But looking forward to other people's talks and to meet lots of old and new faces there. I'm sure it's goint to be great as usual.

Here I am again, in Washington DC attending the Drupal Conference.

This time I'm doing two presentations:

I've had a pair busy weeks doing development and maintenance for contributed modules: Internationalization, Messaging, Notifications. All of them have got some new features and are on track for stable releases soon.

However, one of the the things I've realized (again) is that I've ended up maintaining way too many huge modules and maybe one of the ways to keep them moving faster is to break them down when it makes sense, and also to hand over maintenance to some more people. Now we have Mail2web (Ian Ward is the new maintainer) and Language Icons (Freso is helping with that one), more may be coming in the next future....

The other thing I've realized is that it is exhausting maintaining both 5.x and 6.x versions of a module. That means developing and testing everything twice with slight changes which is actually harder than working on two different projects. The thing is that Drupal 6 seems to be taking some time to become the main development version for new sites and more work is done with Drupal 5 yet.

I'm leaving on Sunday, so these days I've been quite busy preparing everything for the Boston Drupalcon 2008.

Finally, back to work after attending the Drupal Conference in Brussels and a few more days travelling around Europe.