In order to make Lemmy more accessible to people who don't speak English, we have decided to hire some translators for the documentation. Specifically, we are looking for people capable of translating into the following languages:
- ~~Spanish~~
- ~~Russian~~
- Chinese (simplified)
The following documents need to be translated:
- Lemmy documentation (section 1, 2, 3)
- Readmes:
To apply, you should be a native speaker (or equivalent) in the target language. it is not necessary that you are a professional translator. But you should have some experience (for example, from translating open source projects), and some basic technical knowledge. You can also do the work as a group, as long as one person takes responsibility for receiving and distributing the money.
Payment will be made in Ethereum (or another cryptocurrency). Making a contract for this would be impractical, as we all live in different countries. Instead we will send you a portion of the payment on advance, and the rest once work is completed.
Please send an email with the following details to [email protected]:
- Subject: "Lemmy Docs Translation (Spanish)" (replace with your language)
- Previous translation work
- Estimated payment to complete the work.
- Alternatively: hourly wage and estimated time to complete it.
- Any currency is fine, if it is stable (so not Ethereum)
- Your Matrix account
Even if your langauge is not included here, you can already start to translate the respective items via Weblate and Github.
Any chance to add (Brazilian) Portuguese to the list? Seems like a fairly important language to cover.
You can already translate everything into any language you want. For the paid translations, we wanted to limit it to a few popular ones, because otherwise it would be a lot of effort to manage the work of so many translators. If this goes well, we might repeat it for additional languages.