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September 2010 Community Report : Translations

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This report is being put together by: David Planella

This report is here to satisfy the following use case:

Sam speaks a second language and wants to translate Ubuntu in it.

The goal of this assessment to identify what typical experience Sam may have and areas in which it can be approved.

Assessment Process

To perform this assessment we would like to ask those involved to perform the following steps:

  1. First put yourself in the position of Sam who has no idea how to participate within this area. How does find out about to participate, where our resources are, which communication channels they can use etc? Please enter your findings into the Discoverability section below.

  2. How does Sam learn the skills to participate in this area? Enter your findings in the Learnability' section below.

  3. How does Sam know what to work on and how to contribute? Enter your findings in the Doability section below.

  4. Find five community members who are very new to the community and ask them to answer the questions in the New Community Member Feedback section below.

  5. Finally, review all the findings you have notes down here and propose a set of improvements that are concrete things we can work on. Note these in the Recommendations For Improvement section below.

Findings

To ensure our work is as useful as possible, please ensure that all findings are factual and not based on opinion and perception, and where possible, backed up with links to resources that outline the findings.

Discoverability

Items to consider:

  • How do new community members typically start learning about the community?
  • What is the primary web pages and points of contact when new community members get involved?
  • Are there magazines, other websites and other resources that often act as on-ramps for community members to get involved?

Learnability

Items to consider:

  • What documentation/resources are available?
  • What support channels are available to help them learn?

Critically - from the perspective of someone completely new to learning the skills in this area of the community, are our resources easy to follow and understand?

Doability

Items to consider:

  • How does someone know what to work on?
  • How do they contribute their work back?
  • How easy is it for Sam to understand how this works?

New Community Member Feedback

Within this part of the community, look at which community members are new (such as new MOTUs in the Packager assessment or those newly participating in LoCo teams in the Advocacy assessment) and pick five community members to answer the following questions on this page. They should include their answers below.

Alessio Buccoliero

I'm a student graduated in Oriental Languages at the University of Rome. I use Ubuntu since the 7.04 edition. Now I'm using it from a VM because I own a Mac and I found the installation process on it a bit tricky. I'm studying to became a translator and I decided to do some practice helping the community in translating this beautiful OS in my language.

  • How did you learn about this part of the community?

  • I always wished to know how a distribution like Ubuntu could be translated in so many languages and the people behind a magic like this. I started searching on the net because i wanted to know about it.
  • What attracted you to this type of participation?

  • I participate because I think is a right of every single human being to have the opportunity and the possibility to use an OS in his own language. If I can help I will certainly do. Because I want to...
  • Where did you look first for information on getting involved?

  • I searched on the net and I found most of the documentation in the official site.
  • Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • I'm Italian. I read the official italian wiki and I found all the necessary info there. Everything is explained very well and, however, the community is always ready to help. I'm not happy only for one thing. I translate from a Mac with Ubuntu on a VM. It was a bit annoying

the registration part because it can be done only on a Ubuntu running machine. I think that will be better if it could be done in a less tricky way and from whatsoever OS.

  • When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • I found very useful the translation guidelines. I'm a newbie in translation and these guidelines helped me so much when I started.
  • What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community?

  • I think that the 1translation-1translator structure is a good idea. However, sometimes getting a translation is very hard or people starts translations that are over their skills. It could be a good idea a sort of chart with all the translators ranked by their skills and the translation assigned to them by a senior translator.

Name (blank of they want to be anonymous)

  • How did you learn about this part of the community?

  • What attracted you to this type of participation?

  • Where did you look first for information on getting involved?

  • Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community?

Name (blank of they want to be anonymous)

  • How did you learn about this part of the community?

  • What attracted you to this type of participation?

  • Where did you look first for information on getting involved?

  • Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community?

Name (blank of they want to be anonymous)

  • How did you learn about this part of the community?

  • What attracted you to this type of participation?

  • Where did you look first for information on getting involved?

  • Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community?

Name (blank of they want to be anonymous)

  • How did you learn about this part of the community?

  • What attracted you to this type of participation?

  • Where did you look first for information on getting involved?

  • Did you feel the places you looked for information were useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • When learning skills and content for participating, were the resources you used useful? If not, how could we improve?

  • What recommendations would you make for improving your experience in our community?

Recommendations For Improvement

The goal of this effort is to make practical changes that improve our community. Please place these recommendations here, and make sure every suggestion is a practical achievable goal.

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Commentary

This section is for those not involved in the report to leave their feedback.