Last week I found myself in the release notes for the August version of Visual Studio Code in a snapshot of top contributors for this release:
This was fun, and unexpected… What I did was helping to translate strings used in Visual Studio for the Dutch language. I somehow ran into this, I really don’t know how, but I thought it was fun to do so I went over the English texts and titles and translated them into Dutch.
There are still several languages and phrases to be translated, so I’d like to point you to the translation project and hopefully you like to help out as well.
And why not? It would probably speed up the release of your most fav tool around to arrive in your own language!
How to Contribute
Please see general instruction from Getting Started with Community Localization page. Follow these simple steps to contribute.
- Sign up to Transifex free.
- Request access to a project.
- Start contributing. See What to contribute? and how to get help?
Fun factor … compete!
There is even a fun factor, and I’m sure they did this to push translation speed a bit forward 
but also for internal reporting to show the boss how they got the community to do work for them.
What they did is create a sophisticated Power BI environment to list the progress in the project:
https://microsoftl10n.github.io/
Using this tooling you can see where you are in the list:
So, get over there … select one or more languages and start translating (even if you just translate one or a few, everything helps) to get VS Code out in your language!