Hi David, Sorry it's taken a while to circle back to this but it's great to hear your enthusiastic thoughts on it. Quick update here:
I've got a small team together interested in tackling the Japanese translations. They're mainly interested in R so I think we would start with the R gapminder lesson and take it from there. I've been thinking more about how to do this collaboratively, the easiest way to get up and running would be to share the raw PO files on GitHub I think (and send each other Pull Requests). There might be a cleverer way to go about it but since most of us are comfortable with Git/GitHub we could start with that. I've also heard from the Korean team that they've already got a translation for several lessons in Korea. They're also interested in switching over to this system. Are we able to write up a more detailed README on how to get it set up? Of course the process will be different for the first time with a new language or contributing to an existing (ongoing) translation. I'll try to put together a quick guide based on my experiences with it to get the Japanese team started but if you have any guide or README in progress (especially for others in interested in starting with other languages) that would be great. I think we still have to discuss how to keep lessons updated once the Japanese (or Korea) lessons are translated. If this system can handle that, it would be great. Ideally, Software Carpentry itself could make some changes to make this easier on us. I expect that changes to the material will continue to be done mainly in English (although I think we should still welcome PRs and comments in other languages to discuss whether to make such changes on the main English lessons). Would it be feasible to have SWC lessons to "releases" or some kind of checkpointing with a changelog of main points to update? We can see change with GitHub of course but it would help translation teams to prioritise what changes need to be made. Thanks, Tom Kelly ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tdb042c4bc0ecf365-M45c8882833cfa0f93a99dfea Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
