Dear OSGeo-Live contributors,

We are excited to announce that after many months work, we have set up the Transifex platform to run OSGeo-Live translations [1], and we want help battle testing it in several languages.

Transifex will hugely simplify and improve the sustainability of our translation experience (over our previous manual spreadsheet / git / .rst process). 

* It offers machine translation.
* It provides a review process.
* It shows us what is changed in the English doc version.
* It shows translation progress
 
== What is involved ==

We describe what to do in our first draft of the translator guide [2].
For testing the infrastructure, translated files are needed. You can translate based on the priority mark, or on the amount of lines to be translated, or complete a translation that someone else started, or start with your own project. Note that we already marked files that don't need translation.

Please tell us if the guide makes sense. (The guide is probably more for a reviewer than for a translator.)
If the images below don't show in your mail, they are included in our translator guide [2]

They are mark with a red >> on the left:

[[File: OSGEo-Live_transifex_01_index.png  500px ]]

After that testing phase, we will work on translating included projects, where people from the projects can help us.

Those files generally start by overview-- or quickstart--  and are mark with an orange >

[[File: OSGEo-Live_transifex_02_second_priority.png  500px ]]

The files  marked with a green dash  don't need to be translated (and would be retired at some point).

[[File: OSGEo-Live_transifex_03_retired_files.png  500px ]]

Best way to start is to filter for v11 files and descending priority:

[[File: OSGEo-Live_transifex_04_priority.png  500px ]]

As you can see on the dashboard [3], we already have 8 languages registered waiting for translators:

* finnish
* french
* german
* greek
* japanese
* polish
* spanish
* Mexican spanish

If you can help us translating those languages, or help us with another, please create an account on transifex and join us.

Pro. tip: you can copy/paste translations from current documentation [5] or from github [6] and check whether it still fits in with the string to translate.

If you have any question, please join us on IRC or on this mailing list.

Vicky Vergara and Nicolas Roelandt

OSGeo-Live team

[1] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/

[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Translation_Process#WORK_IN_PROGRESS

[3] https://www.transifex.com/osgeo/osgeolive/languages/

[4] OSGeo-Live contact us: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us

[5] https://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

[6] https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/