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[simison]

• [x] Home
• [x] About
• [x] Manifesto
• [x] Rules #111
• [x] Team
• [x] Privacy
• [x] Blog
• [x] Help / FAQ #152
• [x] Media
• [x] Foundation
• [x] Proofread
• [x] Proofread by native

[guaka]

https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/wiki/Volunteering

[guaka]

weird sentence: "Our unselfish willingness to help each other should not be monetized."

[guaka]

"Hospitality exchange community for hitchhikers and other travellers." I don't like "other" :)

[guaka]

keep an eye on https://lite5.framapad.org/p/proofreading-trustroots (I handled whatever was there this moment)

[simison]

:+1: Super!

I'm adding that link to Volunteering page.

[libertedeparole]

Here's a suggested revision of part of the ABOUT page. I'm a translator, native US English speaker, and revising is part of my job. Obviously revision is partly a question of taste, my work isn't perfect. The rest of the page had less problems. I'm not sure if I'll lose the formatting here - look's like it. [I can send a test file elsewhere, if it's useful.]

https://www.trustroots.org/#!/about

Communities Every site user will belong to one or more communities. For example, you could join the "hitchhiker", "geek", “improvisational music”, and “vegan” communities. You might decide to be visible to the members of all of them – or only one or two where you feel you best belong.

Trustroots is being built at first with hitchhikers in mind. We will expand later for other target groups. When travelling by hitchhiking, searching for a host in the hitching community makes sense. Another hitchhiker will better understand a traveller not knowing the exact date of arrival or showing up in the middle of the night. This is a feature still in planning.

Volunteering We appreciate a hard working, getting things done attitude. And we love great ideas. We'll aim to keep the entry level for volunteers as low as possible. No bureaucracy. Pragmatic approach. Trust. Right now our structures for volunteering are still getting underway, but you can simply drop us a line and tell us about your ideas! If you're a developer, check GitHub.

Free and open source forever You can trust us. This is not some venture capital-funded startup. We've been running other free and open projects for a decade now and we hope our deeds so far speak for us.

[platschi]

I +1 the revision and can add the changes later tonight to the site if there's no objection

[libertedeparole]

"This is not some venture capital-funded startup."

On rereading, this would be better:

"Trustroots is not some startup funded by venture capital."

[simison]

Heyap! Great, thanks for proofreading.

For example, you could join the "hitchhiker", "geek", “improvisational music”, and “vegan” communities.

Let's keep this like it was originally; I think you might've understood the feature just slightly wrong — communities aren't like groups in CS/BW/FB. Communities shouldn't be very detailed either, but rather for example "buskers" or "musicians" instead of "improvisational music". It's better to keep them in plural form as well. I'll try to elaborate this feature somewhere a bit better when it comes time to implement it. Right now at this stage the main point is to communicate that Trustroots won't be solely for hitchhikers in the future, but that in future everyone can stay in their own community only if they choose so. Did I explain clearly? :-)

In this:

You can trust us. This is not some venture capital-funded startup. We've been running other free and open projects for a decade now and we hope our deeds so far speak for us.

"Some"+venture stuff at the beginning gives a negative tone for the whole paragraph. What do you think?

The rest looks good! Looking forward to your PR @platschi

[libertedeparole]

English doesn't really like "vegans community", English uses the singular here.

I didn't think of the communities as being groups - but "vegan" is a fairly narrow label compared to "food eaters". "Buskers" is much narrower than "improvisational music" in the music circles I frequent. But I was actually just trying to add a 4th community for rhetorical reasons.

I changed the order on the last paragraph to avoid ending the entire section on a downer.

But I don't want to twist any ideas. Use whatever you can of my contribution, ditch the rest.

[simison]

Ye and my english isn't native. I really appreciate the effort. :-)

[guaka]

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." :D https://www.couchsurfing.com/groups/7621/threads/19428505