Welcome to the Translation group - Introductions thread.

@Rob Guthrie Is the /marketing section on Transifex no longer active? How do you translate the texts on the home page?

Hi @Pedro Gomes, thanks for joining the Loomio Translation group. Please reach out to me if you need any help or have any questions.

Hi Øyvind, how's your loomio use going? Are you aware of https://talk.theborderland.se/?

Hi peoples
My name is Øyvind and I have started using Loomio on two different projects and I love it. Just what we need to organize a small festival and a collective with artists. I am based in Oslo and Tromsø and have started translating Loomio to Norwegian. Looking forward to the effects of using such a nice tool and exiting Facebook for good.

Hi @marcogiustini and @nasiruddin nice to have you join the group. Are you interested in helping to translate Loomio? If so, which languages would you like to help out with?

Hey Rob, my pleasure! Now that Rich and Nati are in Brazil I thought it would be great to have the translation ready. Just started working on it, it's almost meditative.

Also, pretty cool to learn about transifex, nice tool!

Hi @nathaliascherer thanks for joining in! Please feel free to ask any questions you have. We'd love support with Portuguese which is currently sitting at about 50% translated.

The translation guide is here but please do ask questions and I'll try to improve it.

Thanks again for your support, we appreciate it very much!

Welcome to the group @christophthelen1. Thanks for your contributions so far!

Hi @leosammallahti. Thanks for joining the group - great to have you here. Please let me know if you need any help or direction.

Hi!
My name is Paula and I am an engineer and a translator. I am very happy to have found a tool like Loomio and such a great organization, and I hope to help in making it grow!

@chanyoungyoung Welcome to the translation team! Would you like to introduce yourself to this community?

@elaalptekin1 Welcome! Would you like to introduce yourself to the community?

@gilson @offramp Welcome! is nice to see you both here :) and thanks so much for all your help!!

HI, I'm Heecheol from South Korea. After I met Richard on the conference. I eager to contribute this movement and give the benefit to my friends and lovers. It was my honor to work with awesome people like you!

Ah sorry, I'm busy these days. Forget to introduce myself.
Hello everyone, I'm Jeff Huang. I speak Traditional Chinese (or Taiwanese Mandarin, that have two names because of some reasons) and a little English.

I'm a open source enthusiast. So my goal is translating more FLOSS as possible.

Hi, I'm Gilson from Brasil. I speak English, Portuguese and Spanish and I would like to make part of this beautiful iniciative helping translating and what more I can.

And I want to say that I'm glad for who construct this platform!! :))

Hello, I'm Ohyeon from Korea. Our team ( http://parti.xyz ) has been prepared some web platform for better democracy in Korea. After we met Ben and team last week, we thought Loomio can be helpful for our exploration building new platform and also can be useful for many Korean organizations. Thanks for inviting!

Welcome @s8321414 it's very nice to have you here! Will you like to introduce yourself to this community?

Welcome @misscharliebrown ! Nice to have you here :)

"Hello everyone! I'm Cristina and I come from Rome. I "met" Loomio about 1year ago, and I started helping the Loomio team with the italian translations. I think you're doing a great job guys, and I'd like to give my contribution as well. Even if I have a background in economics I am also a research partner of the “ICSEM Project” (International Comparative Social Enterprise Models), an international research network about the social enterprises which based in Belgium. I am interested in social topics as well as open softwares, and I am about to start a master in teaching italian language and literature to foreigners. You have developed such a smart platform and I really hope to become a good addition to your crew! see you around! Cris"

Hello everyone! Bonjour à toutes et tous!
As said before, i'm an elementary school teacher in Geneva, Switzerland, and happy to help translate Loomio to French!

Welcome @frederic1207 ! Will you like to introduce yourself to the community? nice to have you here :)

Wellcome @eduardk ! Will you like to introduce yourself here to our community? also please contact me if you have any questions :)

Hi everyone!
I'm Nati, I'm from Argentina and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I've been doing Loomio Spanish/Castilian translations for a while. Now, I've joined the team as a regular contributor; I'll be working with multilingual customer support and with Spanish/Castilian translations; as well as doing support for the wider volunteer Translation Community.
So, please let me know if there's anything I can help you out with or if you have any questions or comments about the translation process.
Looking forward to be collaborating with you all :)

Thanks for letting me in @hannahsalmon :)
In addition to what I already said: I'm a 23 y/o French citizen who's really excited about collaborative working. As for my background, I studied languages at uni (and as it so happens I did an exchange semester in Wellington... so I'm quite happy to be around new zealanders, at least virtually !) and like any language addict I love to find new ways of practicing and taking on new challenges... The first day I discovered Loomio and Transifex, I ended up translating strings for 2 or 3 hours in a row. Oops ! Anyway, I'm happy to be here and ready to continue translating :)

Welcome to the community @amelinenelly! Thanks for providing us with an introduction:

Hey ! I've started using Loomio with my organization a few days ago, and started translating in the French team at the same time to help make the French version of Loomio. I'd love to join this group to be in the Loomio translation community :)

Care to tell us a little more about who you are and where you're coming from?

We've had quite a few new people join the translation group recently! Welcome!

@banaziz, @genarocorbatosoro, @lukacsandras, @millanfernandez, would you be interested in introducing yourselves to the community?

Hello. My name is Guillermo. I'm graphic designed and illustrator, but I contributed with some social movements. I would like to give my little help to translate to Spanish, due I found some wrong (or improvable) translations. Saludos.

Awesome! Great to have you in here @hemiwaerea :)

I'm one of the Loomio co-founders, based in Wellington alongside many of the other Loomions including @mixmix who handles the translation mechanics, @hannahsalmon who coordinates the translators as well as writing code, and @robertguthrie who is our lead software architect for the whole project.

This week Anake Goodall connected us to Karaitiana Taiuru, who connected us to Ian Cormack from Taumatua Māori Language Services. Ian has volunteered to help out.

Hemi I wonder if you're connected to any of those folks? Or have you come in independently? It would be cool to have everyone on the same page. If you're up for it, you could start a thread in this group specifically about Loomio in te reo, and we can pull people together there.

We are having a pretty choice Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori at Loomio :)

kia ora. my name is hēmi waerea. i come from rotorua, new zealand. i work in the education sector within nz. my mother tongue is māori. hoping to build a team to translate loomio into māori. kia ora.

Hey Pau good to see you again ❤

Hi! I'm Pau, in older times here known as @zombilechuck. Excited to be back to loomio and spread it's word in organizations i'm involved now. (Cooperative movements and political municipal parties)

Welcome @keshashah!

I've just moved your introduction to a comment here, so everyone can see the context for this discussion when they join.

Hi,

This is Kesha Shah here. I am a final year undergraduate in DAIICT, India. I heard about Loomio through Rails Girls Summer of Code program. I am interested in translating Loomio to Hindi, the national language of India. To more about me, you can have a look at my website which is hosted at www.keshashah.com

Looking forward to have a wonderful experience working with Loomio community and you! :)

Hi @heenamahour welcome! It's great to have you helping out :)

Love from Aotearoa New Zealand!

Hi all,
I am Heena Mahour and I am from Delhi, India. I am a Season of KDE 2012 student(kde-edu game pairs), Google summer of code 2013 student under KDE where I worked with plasma team, Google Code In 2013 mentor where I provided tasks under KDE for plasma, co-administrator & mentor of Season of KDE 2014 and organization co-administrator & mentor of KDE for Google Code In 2014 as well. I am also a mentor in Learn IT, girl. Moreover, I am also the co-founder, organizer and director of Women Who Code Delhi, India. Recently, I presented a talk on KDE as a speaker at FOSSASIA 2015, Singapore. I also organized a GSoC meetup at Delhi recently which got featured at Google open source blog. I am also the layout developer of pairs theme editor. I also was one of the speakers at GSoC Symposium, Delhi where I presented a talk on the plasma development.I am looking forward to get involved with Rails community now by contributing to Loomio.
We plan to implement te following :
- Translation to Hindi, national language of India as currently it is not yet supported by Loomio
-Resolve bugs if any encountered
-Translation to the remaining languages which are not currently supported by Loomio once Hindi translation is finished
-Fix the documentation

Suggestions and feedback are welcome :) .

Love from India !

Hi all, I'm Nina and I currently live in Wellington, NZ, but I'm originally from Slovenia. I used to work in TV production to make my living but I also freelance as a journalist, translator, editor, web content manager etc. I also helped organise concerts and festivals, hosted radio shows and did many others things connected to the world of (relatively underground) music. I help run an electronic/ambient/drone record label called Cloudchamber Recordings. I studied sociology at Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and found myself involved with different NGOs and especially interested in new ways that technology can make our lives better. I got to know about Loomio by using it for the purposes of coordinating 19 Tory St group activities. I am working on the Loomio translation into Slovene in my spare time and would appreciate all feedback and comments.

Sending out good vibez and hopes for Loomio in Slovenia :)

Oh, sorry, I did that by mistake.

Hi,

u ve sent e-mail to wrong man.

BRGDS,

Umut Köktürk

2014-12-10 11:30 GMT+02:00 mix irving (Loomio) :

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Hi, I am a political science and mathematics student in Latvia. I have been working in some NGOs and been part of some smaller and larger democracy initiatives in Latvia. I am very interested in the way how such software is used around the world for decision making purposes.

I haven’t done much translating in my life but I will try to do the best I can. And I hope loomio will spur here in Latvia.

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Hi, I am a political science and mathematics student in Latvia. I have been working in some NGOs and been part of some smaller and larger democracy initiatives in Latvia. I am very interested in the way how such software is used around the world for decision making purposes.
I haven’t done much translating in my life but I will try to do the best I can. And I hope loomio will spur here in Latvia.

Selam!

My name is uMut (Hope) :). I live in Istanbul, Turkey. I work as an unlimited chief officer on bulk carrier ships at the oceangoing seas. I travel all of seaside countries/cities cos of my job. While i m in Turkey, (I ve got 20+ websites (5 of them jeneric domains) ) im looking to my websites as a hobby. I just found Loomio when i searched Open-Source Projects. I realised that Loomio project can combine all people from all over the world so then i wanted to be a part of this good project. Now, i help this project as a coordinator of Turkish translation team. And im so happy being a part of that team.

Thanks to all.

And this is me at the attachment :)

one of them is when i was in vietnam and the other one is at the brigde on ship :)

Ahoj from Slovakia :-)

I have learned about Loomio from a fastcompany article (I guess). It caught my attention as I am involved in a non-profit organization, where we have a need to facilitate discussions and decision making using input from potentially hundreds of participants. Originally I put together a solution based on Drupal and it has been very helpful, but it is tailored to the needs of our non-profit. Now we need something more generic and run independently, because for some issues we will be seeking consensus of multiple organizations. Loomio seems to match our needs, but I will have some suggestions for functionality that would be helpful to us and maybe also to others.

Shalom!
I'm Oded, from Israel
I'm working as Product Manager in a telecommunication software company, but my Master is actually in Environmental Geography and I'm passionate about the political decision-making process in that context which lead me up to Loomio. I'm looking forward to work on the Hebrew Translation, and hoping something like this in the Israeli political system as we desperately need it...

Ciao everyone!

This is Giuseppe, from Milano, Italy.

I have been studying ICT enablers of democratic participation (specifically participation to discussions on controversial bioethical issues) as a part of my PhD dissertation. That's how I got to fiddling a bit with Loomio. To give something back I helped translating the platform into English.

Hope I can keep helping.

Good idea Jesús, especially since my euskera is still not good enought to translate anything, nor to start a new discussion!

That would be a tougher and interesting discussion, since euskera has requirements that make us, the programmers, think.

And that's something always good!!!

Cheers,
-- nando

Mila esker! Talde jatorra omen daukazue hemen!

¿Nos vemos en la Spanish discussion?

Un abrazo

ongi etorri Jesús!!!

As well as @fernandogs, I am Spanish and I have joined Podemos in order to bring a true democratic culture in our country. Many people has been struggling to be heard by the political elites, and they have finally decided to empower themselves and to start doing politics with other ordinary people instead.

I've been experiencing the huge organizational problems in a grassroots movement as ours. Here in Donostia we have stepped into Loomio to encourage horizontal discussions, and we are succeeding in reducing the digital gap. Working with seniors and teenagers in the same community is one of the most exciting things I can imagine.

It seems that the Spanish translation needs an additional impulse in order to cope with the new features and I'm volunteering to help. I could also join a Basque translating team.

The issue that let me know about this group: https://github.com/loomio/loomio/pull/1591

http://about.me/colgado

Hello everybody,

I'm nando, a web developer living in Madrid (Spain) that last July try to implement a little Loomio improvement that needed a small translation change. Rich "Decibels" told me about Transifex and this group and I tried to make the translation changes myself.

I think Loomio is an amazing tool and will keep trying to contribute with it as much as I can.

In this photo I'm with the (injured) person that first told me about Loomio, Rai (Raimond García), together at the first PODEMOS Democratic BBQ, first informal meeting of the tech people (Círculo TIC) of the PODEMOS party at Madrid.

It's a pleasure to be part of something like Loomio. Thank you to all of you that make it possible.

Cheers,
-- nando

Hello,
I am a german engineer working as a freelancer and as a promotor for NGO's in development cooperation and fair trade. I grew up and live in southwestern Germany, near the french frontier.
I got my first loomio contact yesterday because of someone from the Economy for the Common Good movement. Immediately I saw the link "Help to translate Loomio" and I moved in.
I am also an attac activist since 10 years and nowadays starting some transition actions in our town with about 80.000 people.

Thank You for developping Loomio. You're doing a great job for a real democratic future.
Let's move on...