Sunflowers - Programming Historian in Ukrainian (and other languages)

Olexandr Konovalov, Michael Tso, Alessandro Felder

• Olexandr Konovalov (Lecturer at St Andrews)
• Michael Tso (Research Data Scientist at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
• Alessandro Felder (Research Software Engineer at University College London)

Context

• Preservation of historic Ukrainian heritage requires data skills
• Programming Historian provides teaching material for this, and ad-hoc translation efforts exist, but these don’t scale well due to lack of infrastructure and documentation
• Carpentries internationalisation infrastructure, using a tool called transifex, has been successful in the last year

Hackday idea

• to reuse and adapt the setup used by the Carpentries in order to establish the similar infrastructure for the Programming Historian.

Collaboration tools

• GH project board for draft issue tracking (when repos don’t exist yet!)
• hackmd shared doc
• talking to each other!

Plan

• test transifex manually
• create some sample translations
• fork programming historian to contribute sample translations as an example

Redacted Plan

• test transifex manually
• create some sample translations
• fork programming historian to contribute sample translations as an example
• create an intermediate preview site to make things simpler

Demo of preview site

(but that’s what we did… at least we say so on the main README!)

Demo of preview site

(but that’s what we did… at least we say so on the main README!)

Sample translation: proof of concept