Gábor Hojtsy

Job title:

Acquia, Developer

Gábor is an open source enthusiast and contributor, most active as a Drupal developer, working with and on the open source project itself at Acquia. He started off contributing to Open Source in 2000 when he became an active contributor to the PHP Documentation team and became the lead to that team and the PHP.net website team for years. Technical edited the first Hungarian PHP developer book, led courses on web technologies and co-organized various PHP and generic web development conferences. Started working with and on Drupal in 2003, and became devoted to the multilingual functionality and sometimes the lack thereof. He is an active contributor ever since, was the co-organizer of the international Drupalcon Szeged 2008, he is the active maintainer for Drupal 6, the initiator of http://localize.drupal.org/, Drupal's software localization site and lead to the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative.

When not geeking out, he is also passionate about singing, music and amateur acting, especially when these are all combined.

Session title:

Multilingual Drupal 8 - what to look forward to?

Session summary:

Drupal's project lead Dries Buytaert announced the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative in May 2011 in hopes to bring ubiquitous multilingual capabilities to Drupal 8 all around. The plans were ambitious.

Many of the big goals were completed as of this session submission but some are still in progress. Come to this session to get an overview of the plans and an up to date review of where we are and what to expect from Drupal 8 when it comes out. The session is best suited for those who felt the pains in Drupal 7 and want to see how Drupal 8 improves on those areas.

Ongoing updates about the initiative can be found on http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core and http://drupal8multilingual.org/ with IRC meetings every other Wednesday (always announced at http://drupal8multilingual.org/planet and https://twitter.com/d8mi). Find us on IRC on #drupal-i18n.