Greetings Community! We want to share that from June to August we are running a focused squad just for Localization improvement in OpenMRS.
About: This squad will run from July to August 2025. We are really lucky that the experts at Localization Lab will help us work through the following things to make our Translation Community & translator experience better over the next 1-2 months.
Goals:
- Developing Community Governance Process: Build out community governance of translations, including:
- Contributor engagement recommendations (list of suggestions for how to engage contributors to improve retention, maintenance of a language/glossary, draft a code of conduct, policies around use of automated translation, vetting process, structures for relational support).
- Contribution assessments: Guidance on how OpenMRS leaders can assess the quality of new and existing translations; (ex: https://support.torproject.org/pt-BR/)
- Existing Resources Audit:
- Transifex Audit: Audit of OpenMRS Transifex instance (analysis of source text) to assess health of internationalization practices (review of workspace for translators and reviewers and source text strings to yield core recommendations for streamlining workflows);
- Onboarding Audit: Audit of Onboarding process and documentation review (when does onboarding happen, who does it, how, where does troubleshooting take place, what kind of follow up/assistance is offered, how are timelines managed, how is review managed, what does ‘finishing’ look like; how is the guide used in all of this);
- Community Training:
- Core Glossary Development and community engagement around this.
- Host live training session walking new and existing contributors through using the glossary and the platform; recorded version will be made available for OpenMRS team use with contributors moving forward;
- Train the trainer resources to facilitate OpenMRS team leading its own localization sprints
When/Where:
- Async updates/communciation will happen here in this Talk thread
- We meet on Zoom every 2 weeks on Wednesdays until August. Details on om.rs/cal
Thank you to squad members @chidomusodza @adriano @rayya @suubi7 @beryl @wodpachua - and others are welcome to join us anytime too!! (Here online or on our zoom calls.)