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Using automatic translations, the do's and don'ts

K.3.401 | Day 2 | 13:40 - 14:10 | Speakers: Tom De Moor

Using automatic translations, the do's and don'ts
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Abstract

We used automatic translations in the Mattermost-project for a few specific languages. In this talk you will learn from our mistakes. (yes, initially we did break the product) But you will also learn from our best practices and how we keep the human in control for better translations. We flagged auto-translated strings, made better tests to prevent that your product breaks and imported safely these translations with a rollback possibility

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Tom De Moor

I have +25y experience in open source. I got in touch with Linux when I got a free copy of Suse 7.0 back in 2020 I was active in the Asterisk community and now I'm active in the Mattermost community 20 years long I do the IT for an non-profit organisation in Belgium and open source made us do things that were definitely out of our reach if we had to use commercial products.

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