Translation please!

[MaryBethBaker]

Morning @thomasgohard @jeresiv

We forked the White House App content on Github... could either translated it, or get it translated for us?

Thanks, Mary Beth

[dyomides]

Should we wait for a near final version before asking for translation? Otherwise we'll have to keep track of all changes.

[MaryBethBaker]

@dyomides I wanted to make sure all of our colleagues could review this documentation. I don't think we will worry about keeping them in sync... but having an initial French version to allow people to participate in the discussion seems valuable to me.

[thomasgohard]

Agreed about having an initial French version. With updates to the translation as changes are proposed, obviously. When would you want a translation by?

What I can propose is moving this to a Jekyll+Prose system (à la http://project-open-data.github.io/) so that we can better manage and track updates. That will also make tracking what needs translation much easier as every proposed change will come in as a pull request.

[MaryBethBaker]

@thomasgohard - that would be very useful. Just make sure ton share with @chrismajewski and @samboisvert how this would change the what/where/how of the editing process

[nschonni]

@thomasgohard that was the same suggestion I had in #3 :+1:

[thomasgohard]

@MaryBethBaker @chrismajewski @samboisvert It wouldn't change much. The content would be in a markdown file that would be edited the same way as README.md. Although you could then move the French to a separate file.

Jekyll will make it into a Web page that we can style however you want. Prose will provide an interface for editing that abstracts the GitHub interface to make it easier for people to edit; when they submit their edits, you get still get a pull request.

@nschonni Great minds think alike.

[samboisvert]

I'm all for Jekyll+Prose, I've been wanting to play with Jekyll for a while! I also found this great tutorial on Prose http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content-editor-for-github/

[thomasgohard]

I just did a dump of my notes for enabling Jekyll+Prose in a Gist: https://gist.github.com/thomasgohard/6356707. Check the README.md file for the instructions, the other files are files to import.

As the Gist is not ideal for this, when I have a moment, I'll build better documentation in https://github.com/thomasgohard/Jekyll-plus-Prose.

[thomasgohard]

Moved the documentation to http://thomasgohard.github.io/Jekyll-plus-Prose/. The documentation also contains a few corrections.

[chrismajewski]

Translation is a long way away and we are off topic.

Nothing to resolve, closing.