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First Montreal CiviCRM meetup Thursday July 8th

By bgm Filed under Meetups

Join us for the first Montréal CiviCRM meetup, Thursday July 8th, 17-19h! There will be report backs from CiviCon, French translation status, talks about the new book, case studies. We hope to encourage informal group talks based on various interests (users, integrators, developers).

Meetup agenda:

Report back on the first CiviCon (which was in April 2010 in SF after DrupalCon) and book/translation/code sprint French translation status and recent changes to the translation system New CiviCRM book and plans to translate
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Third day of Localisation Sprint/Hackathon

By bgm Filed under Internationalization and Localization, Sprints
Today's localisation sprint started with a presentation from Piotr on how multilingual installations works in CiviCRM. Multilingual is when you want to have not only a localised interface, but many co-existing languages. So for example the labels of custom fields may need to be in English or Spanish if the organisation has a bilingual website. In general, most labels can be translated using multilingual, but not the data itself. The main except to this is the contact name, so that it can be entered in multiple alphabets.
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