Internalization should be standard, so huge props to Gary and Carrie for helping Web Savvy get there. This is the sign of a good community.

Bradley Vercher wrote a great tutorial on Post Status about automating .pot files and RTL using Grunt if anyone else is interested in standardizing this as part of their workflow: http://www.poststat.us/automating-i18n-wordpress-themes/.

I also think bundling the localizations is a great experience for non-English users. WP Translations (http://wp-translations.org/) is great for free themes and plugins on wordpress.org, though it'll be exciting to see where language packs goes in core.

At DevPress, we've partnered with Fx Benard to manage translations. It’s a terrific asset to have someone verifying your i18n work and creating professional translations. The whole process of pushing updated strings, and pulling down translations has also been automated using Grunt- which makes it incredibly easy after it's set up.