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Today, the D8MI sprint started. Met the assistants.

At 10 am, Gábor introduced the multilanguage architecture for Drupal 8. It's composed of four layers, with the locale module at the base, and on top of it the UI, the content translation and the config translation. He presented the people responsible of each so we know who we need to talk for anything, and how we could work on his D8MI sandbox. After this, the presentation round where everyone exposed the areas he was interested.

As planned, I started helping out Clemens with the Gettext .po file generation.  The morning has been quite frustrating. I catched up with the comments, and saw that it was not an easy thing. Clemens and Erik have most of the issue already working, but some problems appeared when I tried to test it, and Clemens helped out to find the causes. We updated the summary accordingly. After that, I headed with some errors because of inconsistent naming of classes and its references, an issue that was not happening on Clemens' Mac computer. Fixing this was my first commit to the sandbox :D 

After dinner, work started to happen smoothly. Clemens was working with plurals and we discussed how the responsability of formatting those should be out of the PoItem object, and with his change on this implementation the tests went back to green :-)

After some silly issues that I had generating a git patch, I started to feel more confident. While Clemens update the issue summary for showing up the change of scope it had through the comments, I started to think on how to refactor PoDatabaseWriter. This should continue tomorrow.

Gábor is reporting the progress at this document: D8MI sprint report. The global balance of the 1st day is only one commit to 8.x, but it seems that code will flow better on next days. By now, it's being an awesome experience working with these folks.

Today I landed in Barcelona. I'll be spending a full week trying to contribute to the D8MI. D8MI stands for Drupal 8 Multilanguage Initiative. In Drupal core development, most of it is grouped under different core initiatives, where there is one or more leads that organize the work on a particular area.

The D8MI is lead by Gabor Hojtsy, who set up a sprint this week at Barcelona for advancing on this, taking care of having a workplace and getting sponsorship for commodities so people can focus on work. Current focus is described at Multilingual focus issues.

I found that a sprint is a great way of getting involved, so I decided to spend my holidays here. It's also a great opportunity for visiting friends like @francisrivilla who hosts me these days.

Going back to the sprint, I'll try to write up my experience here every day. As a newbie, I expect to pair with someone more experienced on first days and on following days try to work on my own. Clemens Tolboom is not at the city, but he proposed starting with Make gettext .po generation its own abstracted functionality and offered to mentor online. Let's see how this evolves. Wish me luck!

Last week I assisted to SevillaTipo, a typography event for designers that took place at Sevilla, organized by my friends at Kitiplá. There were some conferences on Friday, and a full workshop on Saturday and Sunday. Sadly, I only could be at the conferences.

But... what the heck I was doing in a designers conf? Well, it's easy to explain. I work every day with these kind of creative people, and I have still some problems on communicating effectively with them. Being their guest, I have to shut my mouth and listen, and this is the only way of learning how they think or feel.

Conferences were pretty interesting. Javier Usabiaga and Marta Armada shared their thoughts on the current state of art in web typography, and how it has evolved from web safe fonts to newer technologies like Google Webfonts, and how typography is becoming more important on the www. They also introduced how they feel about the typography future in the mobile world.

After this one, Octavio Pardo introduced how a typography is conceived and how to design it. The new trends, the work behind a typography and his experience on this world. Looking at the passion distilled on his talk, I'm sure that the workshop was really great.

Best of all, it seems that this event has not been a solo in the Sevilla techie space. It has been the start of a designers community, and hope that more events like this one will follow.