One of the reasons I'm mildly adiment about building our own app is the ease of translating it, and I feel we would open the door for more international contributions if we can translate the interface for them. The instructions would need to include a blurb about English being the primary language and issues should be submitted in such if possible, Google Translate can only go so far. That said, in places where we are rendering hard coded language, we should do our best to use language strings so data can be translated.
Also, we would need to ensure we have the mechanisms in place to set the proper language for users. Should be able to get this code from the CMS application classes if it isn't already included.
Superseded by #124