[HOT] Multilingual Site Support for HOT Export

[nicolas chavent]

Hi Kate and Heather

This is a huge need and a key condition if we want to foster our impact in
non English speaking countries: Haiti, Sen, Chad, Burundi, CAR, Togo,
surely Burkina show how hard it is for people to make the best use of our
English based materials, tools, blog posts, tweets, FB posts and reports.

Might be good to set up a hot chat on this topic and looks at platform to
support this, as well as partners and communities likely to have an
interest helping HOT in this area; for French and African languages we can
get support by Direction de la Francophonie Numérique from Organisation
Internationale de la Francophonie: I'll have a call in the next days to
have the latest update on budget elements + implementation conditions for
this support to happen. I'll get back on list then.

Nicolas


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Heather Leson <hleson at ushahidi.com> wrote:

> HI Kate, I've been talking with Translators without Borders. They have a
> Translation community which will help on the Euro languages.  But, the
> translation method below may not be accessible to non-techie helpers.
>
> For those who already do translations, do you find this method easy to
> use? How can we improve.
>
> Some options - if there are a large number of translations that HOT needs,
> maybe we could start using Transifex to build our language community
> supporters? (We've doubled our translation at Ushahidi by moving to
> Transifex.)  (free for groups like us)
>
> Heather
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Shortly there will be multilingual support for the HOT Export.
>> Currently available are English and German. The structure is there for
>> French to be added. Would someone have the time to translate this into
>> French?
>>
>> Hopefully the process is pretty self explanatory.
>>
>> https://github.com/hotosm/hot-exports/tree/master/webinterface/config/locales
>>
>> If someone else wants it in another language just clone the repo then.
>> You need to copy the yml and add the two letter code for your language
>> to them. Next do a pull request.
>>
>> -Kate
>>
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> *Ushahidi*
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