Proposal: i18n - bring the Carpentries to your language 🌏 🌍 🌎

[dpshelio]

Title of the session: i18n - bring the Carpentries to your language :earth_asia: :earth_africa: :earth_americas:

Session details

• Session type: skill-up workshop

• Keywords: languages, internationalisation,

• Permission to record this session: Yes

Abstract

Have you heard that some lessons are being translated into different languages? Would you like to participate in these efforts but you are not sure where to start? Would you like to help but you only speak English? That and more questions will be answered in this practical session. I'll give a general introduction to the history of translation on the Carpentries, where we stand now, what are the tools available, and how it is everything connected together.

You will learn how the translations work, what is needed to do to start a new team of translators in your native language or join one formed already and hopefully we will be able to start translating the Code of Conduct to your native language.

Personal details

• Name or pseudoname of the session lead: David Pérez-Suárez

• Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): :eyes: (looking for them), @orchid00 (will help depending of the time of the session)

• Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: DavidPS (Slack)

• Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): UK (any time between 9-19 UT)

• Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: Could work if there's enough demand.

• Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: Yes

Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points.

• Looking for helpers familiar with Transifex (I'll ask in slack).

• Looking for people who would like to review/add the carpentries-i18n-handbook (repository).

• Other comment: This will be a workshop in English, but a similar workshop could be repeated in Spanish if there's demand.

• Other comment: Also, sorry I submited it a bit late...

[ousodaniel]

@dpshelio thanks for your interest in regional hosting, check out the details here please. We'd love to see you sign up. Best

[serahkiburu]

Hi @dpshelio, the organising committee reviewed this session proposal and had this to say:

We commend the hard work led by the session lead in translation discussions in The Carpentries community over the last few years, and We think that this session will be very meaningful to many community members. We recommend the session lead to recruit a couple of helper if they need support in running this session.

We are really excited for your session, and more details i.e. around scheduling will be shared with you in the coming days. Let me know if I can answer any questions or clarify anything for the time being.

[orchid00]

We will be happy to recruit helpers from people who had participated in translations in the past. We just need to set the dates.