The current state of i18n is that the "Drupal 7 upgrade is in progress, and a first stable release will be ready by the end of February / beginning of March." This is a major showstopper for multilingual sites, which is currently slowing the adoption of Drupal 7, as well as the migration of existing multilingual Drupal 6 websites.

Let's see how the community can help with testing, reviewing, patching, even perhaps a code sprint? In the best of cases, this could be an opportunity to test an official version of this module just out of the press. Who's interested?

Update: The first beta version (7.x-1.0-beta1) has been published on Drupal.org on February 24. (Current development is on Github).

I've posted the BOF

I've posted the BOF here:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/conference/bof/multilingual-figuring-out-i...
Room: Colorado
Time slot: March 10th, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

This will be an introduction to multilingual best practices. We'll be using i18n 7.x-1.0-beta2, which is the most recent version as we speak. I'd be interested in knowing who's coming, leave your name in the comment section.

From another perspective, you might also want to check:
Localization UIs and APIs
Posted by Gábor Hojtsy on March 9, 2011
Room: Huron
Time slot: March 9th, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/conference/bof/localization-uis-and-apis

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