I have had a request for a workshop in Italy. It will be in English with Italian helpers. The organisers are requesting that we get detailed and stable handout materials together so they can translate them for workshop.
We've already had LC taught in Norwegian (hi @danmichaelo!) but I don't think translating everything into lots of languages will scale without massive investment in people, money, time, and workflows.
Nevertheless - as many of your know - I think supporting learners who don't work in English is a priority for LC. Language distinguishes us from the other Carpentries. This is because whilst the language of science/research is (mostly) English the language of librarianship is not English.
Getting our handouts right seems like a good way first step towards supporting learners who don't work in English with the resources we have. This is because handouts are quicker and easier for workshop hosts to translate than whole lessons, meaning that learners can have a handout in their own language to support their learning during even a modestly funded English language workshop (this does of course require that their English is pretty good, but I think there is more than a gesture).
1) for workshop hosts who want to translate handouts to languages other than English.
2) for lesson maintainers so that they can timestamp and archive translated handouts.
3) for workshop hosts so they can find the archive of translated handouts and adapt them to reflect the latest updates to lesson.
To do this right we need to reach more librarians outside of our English language bubble (note that the places outside the Anglosphere in which we've made gains have been places where English is common in Higher Education: the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark).
I have had a request for a workshop in Italy. It will be in English with Italian helpers. The organisers are requesting that we get detailed and stable handout materials together so they can translate them for workshop.
We've already had LC taught in Norwegian (hi @danmichaelo!) but I don't think translating everything into lots of languages will scale without massive investment in people, money, time, and workflows.
Nevertheless - as many of your know - I think supporting learners who don't work in English is a priority for LC. Language distinguishes us from the other Carpentries. This is because whilst the language of science/research is (mostly) English the language of librarianship is not English.
Getting our handouts right seems like a good way first step towards supporting learners who don't work in English with the resources we have. This is because handouts are quicker and easier for workshop hosts to translate than whole lessons, meaning that learners can have a handout in their own language to support their learning during even a modestly funded English language workshop (this does of course require that their English is pretty good, but I think there is more than a gesture).
We have a workflow for managing handouts at https://github.com/data-lessons/librarycarpentry/issues/30. What I propose is that as part of this we have a conversation about building workflows:
1) for workshop hosts who want to translate handouts to languages other than English. 2) for lesson maintainers so that they can timestamp and archive translated handouts. 3) for workshop hosts so they can find the archive of translated handouts and adapt them to reflect the latest updates to lesson.
To do this right we need to reach more librarians outside of our English language bubble (note that the places outside the Anglosphere in which we've made gains have been places where English is common in Higher Education: the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark).
Who is willing to help facilitate this?