Introduction
Greetings, everyone!
I am Garv Thakre (@garvthakre:matrix.org on Matrix), an Agentic-AI FullStack Developer . This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with MetaBrainz, where I worked on the internationalization (i18n) for BookBrainz.
I was mentored by Nicolas Pelletier (@monkey:chatbrainz.org on Matrix). This post summarizes my project, its outcomes, and my experience over the course of the program.
Project Overview
BookBrainz aims to collect information about every book ever written, but until now, the interface was only in English. Since books exist in thousands of languages, having an English-only UI made it tough for non-English contributors to navigate, read, or add metadata.
My main goal this summer was to get BookBrainz ready for translation and set up the foundation so the community can actually start localizing it. Here is what that involved:
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