Ask HN: Open-source Projects that need translations?

2 pointszorbash8y ago3 comments

A really close friend of mine who holds a master's degree in translation, has no experience building software (but knows git), is seeking to contribute to open-source. Are there any projects I could suggest to him?

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mikemcquaid8y ago· 1 in thread

Here's some open source projects I maintain that could do with more translations:

- https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew.github.io - https://github.com/ossfriday/ossfriday/ - https://github.com/github/opensource.guide/

zorbashOP8y ago

Really cool! Didn't know about ossfriday, will try to give a lightning talk about it maybe at work. What if https://github.com/explore/ had a way to discover projects in need of translations?

ocdtrekkie8y ago

How much translating is he looking to do? What languages does he translate to?

Sandstorm.io recently added i18n, but only has a handful of community contributed translations so far: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/tree/master/shell/...

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web app platform which can help free people from proprietary cloud services. It's also a nifty way for people to develop and deploy small/niche web apps that aren't sustainable as a business on their own.

Various apps I use inside Sandstorm, of course, also could always use translation help as well. Etherpad, EtherCalc, Wekan, etc. Some are much more translated than Sandstorm, some are in about the same place. (EtherCalc could really use some translation love: https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/tree/master/l10n)

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