Putting together an internationalization team

[ddevault]

Looking for some motivated contributors to take the lead on a permanent i18n team, whose responsibilities will include finding and managing the translators for various languages and organizing work to translate the README, wiki, and man pages - and keep them up to date. This could also involve setting up sway sub-communities in various languages, such as language-specific IRC channels and support mediums. The goal is to establish a team which is as disciplined and motivated in keeping the translations high-quality and up-to-date as the engineering team is with the code.

Is anyone up for the task?

[ddevault]

The members of this team would be open to set policies as they see fit, but for reference here are my philosophies on i18n:

• Machine translations are not acceptable
• All translations have to be reviewed by a native speaker of that language
• All development-related work is conducted in English, as it's the only common language between all developers who conduct code reviews and such

I also wrote up some more specific guidelines back in the day on #1318. Personally, I'm happy to help maintain the Japanese translation.

[KubqoA]

I would be willing to contribute to Slovak translations. It's the least I can do for this project.

[Philz69]

My native language is french, I am interested in maintaining the french translations.

[tarmack]

I am not able to commit the time required for fully creating and maintaining Dutch translations. But I am willing to help as part of a team.

[ddevault]

Thanks to everyone for speaking up - but finding people to contribute to individual translations is not what I'm looking for in this issue.