Openstack Summit Boston 2017: Participating in translation makes you an internationalized OpenStacker & developer

Participating in translation makes you an
internationalized OpenStacker & developer
Participating in translation makes you an internationalized OpenStacker & developer
(Zheng Xi Zhou), Jean-François Taltavull, Frank Kloeker, Ian Y. Choi / Boston 2017

OpenStack I18n Team
The mission of OpenStack I18n team is to make OpenStack
accessible to people of all language backgrounds, by enhancing
OpenStack software internationalization, providing translation,
maintaining a translation platform and managing translation
process for better quality of outcomes.
Who we are …

OpenStack I18n Team
What we are doing…
Translation platform maintenance and enhancements
Translation of documentations, messages, websites, and etc.
OpenStack user guides, installation tutorials, deployment guides, operations
and administration guides, training guides and training labs material
OpenStack dashboard, dashboard modules and command line tools like heat,
ironic, magnum, manila, neutron (lbaas/fwaas), searchlight, tribleo, trove

OpenStack I18n Team
Facts…
280brave, hardworking, tireless, reliable, mostly omniscient
and friendly contributors
With support of 31 companies
29 languages
83 modules
(41 in Mitaka, 65 in Newton, 72 in Ocata)
Source: http://stackalytics.com

Frank Klöker
• Technology Manager Cloud Applications
• Since 2012 Deutsche Telekom
• 6 years experience in Cloud, 20 years IT, 30 years
Operations
• Team member I18n (DE)
• Team member Enterprise Working Group (EWG)
• Founder of Cloud-Kindergarten
• Kontakt: Frank.Kloeker@telekom.de
• Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eumel
• @eumel_8, github.com/eumel8/
blog.eumel.de
about …

Frank Klöker
• Using OpenSource for ages
• Operate OpenStack since 2012
• Started 2015 with the idea „Want to contribute something to OpenStack“
• I‘m not a developer! I don‘t have Python skills ☹
• I‘m also not a deep-dived OpenStack Special Operator!
• Found a Wiki-Page „Need help to translate OpenStack“
• Start contributing!
motivations …

Frank Klöker
• Translated application strings and documentation from English to German
• „Won“ ATC-Code – participated the 1st OpenStack Summit in Tokyo
• Met the I18n team at the Design Summit
• Working further in I18n
• Joining „old style“ communication channels like mailing list & IRC
• Participating mid-cycle sprint in Winter 2016
• Project „Translation Checksite“ (still ongoing)
journey …

Frank Klöker
• Working in a very international team (Japan, China, Korea, Russia, US)
• Working in very different time zones
• Working in different cultures
• Learned OpenStack project insides
• Open discussions
• Open minds
• BUT: you must push things forward!
• Learned OpenStack contributing process
• Learned OpenStack Infrastructure & docs
experience …

Frank Klöker
• Continue translating OpenStack
• Acquire more people for help (Hello!)
• Improve translating process
• Develop tools
outlook …

Ian Y. Choi - NOW
• Sales Engineer at Fuse, Korea
• Project Team Leader (PTL) in I18n team (Ocata, Pike)
• 3rd Leader in OpenStack Korea User Group (2017-2018)
• Actively contributes to
: translation (ko-KR)
: I18n with translation infrastructure & documentation
: training-guides (upstream institute material)
: some bugs in OpenStack world 
• IRC: ianychoi
about …

Ian Y. Choi - in May 2014
• at NAIM Networks – small SDN startup company
• Involving how to deploy OpenStack with SDN
• Led OpenStack training courses in the company
• I was just an OpenStack user, not a contributor
: no experience on contributing translation
: not too much familiar with git-review & Launchpad
: did not know how OpenStack bugs were managed
• My life has been changed a lot from OpenStack Translation!
about … (around 3 years ago)

Ian Y. Choi
• 1. Technology is not dependent to local region I believed
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoi8WpGwrXM
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GgODv34E08
 subscribing mailing lists
• 2. I met Korean I18n coordinator
(@ujuc) from local user group
activities!
 joining to Korean translation
motivations …

Ian Y. Choi
• Translation IRC meetings
: every translators from different countries welcomed me 
: trying to attend as much as possible
• First trial of “git review” by proposing openstack-ko mailing list
: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists#How_to_request_your_own_list
first round of journey by myself …

Ian Y. Choi
• OpenStack Tokyo Summit in Fall 2015
: met many I18n people with I18n working sessions and a contributor
meetup
journey with Summit … (1)

Ian Y. Choi
• Upstream training (Sun & Mon - just before Tokyo Summit)
journey with Summit … (2)

Ian Y. Choi
• I18n welcomes saying even with awkward English
• I18n has become an official OpenStack team since June 2015 – can learn
how official team is doing and contributing in OpenStack
• Translation merges to OpenStack project repositories!
: Joining to development is also possible by contributing translations
: Translation sync and support need development knowledge!
: Documentation also needs translation
journey with I18n …

Ian Y. Choi
• Asking questions to people who met IRC meeting
• Opportunity to express my idea via simple writing
• Interactive conversation
• Staying much time w/ international timezone is not so easy but gives you
nice opportunity!
IRC with international timezone …

Ian Y. Choi
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-i18n/2016-
September/002406.html
• One of my longest writing 
: I have participated in OpenStack translations into Korean since
October 2014. At the first time, I was just a Korean translator and
used Transifex, the previous translation platform. As I got involved
more and more, I have experienced and learned a lot through the
kind help from I18n members and also with many I18n activities…
• Many I18n members helped and are helping a lot sincerely!
PTL candidacy …

Ian Y. Choi
• I18n activities gave me braveness and confidence working with
international people
• Also I have learned the open source philosophy and how to live in open
source world respecting other people with their own culture
• Technologies are really the same: in your local world and also in the global
world!
• If there are some difficulties, do not hesitate to discuss within your
language team using your local language 
• Translations are merged into upstream!
lesson learned from …

Ian Y. Choi
• Development & Operational / using experience & Community
relationship is quite similar with
• Upstream activities (TC) & Downstream activities (UC) & Local user groups
• I18n is a team with upstream activities via translation contribution,
and translation activities are tightly related with downstream and community
activities!
outlook …

Zheng Xi Zhou, Jean-François Taltavull, Frank Kloeker / Boston 2017
Jean-François Taltavull
about…
•Cloud architect at Osones, Paris - France
(https://osones.com)
•French I18N team coordinator
•Member of the I18N core team
Actively contributes to :
•Dashboard (Horizon) translation (Fr)
•Guides review
IRC: jftalta

Local team organization : the french example
Want to join ? Follow the guide !
More than 30 registered Zanata users but less than 5 active contributors
•Contributors do translation and review
•One team coordinator (@jftalta)
•Dedicated IRC channel #openstack-i18n-fr and mailing list openstack-i18n-
fr@lists.openstack.org

Are there pre-requisites to join a local team ?
•Target language must be your native langage (source language is english)
•Better to feel good with Cloud and OpenStack terminology
•You have to own an OpenStack ID to logon Zanata translation platform →
https://www.openstack.org/join/

What must I do to join a local team ?
Don't worry, it is child's play :)
•Logon to Zanata platform (https://translate.openstack.org) with your
OpenStack Id
•Go to the Languages page, choose your language and ask for team
integration as a translator, a reviewer or both
•Adding your motivations to your request is important to let the
coordinator know about you; it's likely that it's the first time he hears
about you.

Current release (Pike) translation priorities
Quite simple to know about them, they are written down on Zanata landing
page, you don't even have to be logged on !

What tools to communicate with my team mates ?
•French team IRC meetings are hard to plan. Most people want use
slack…
•Mailing list is the prefered and the most efficient communication
tool, in France.
•Note : if there is no mailing list for your local team, just ask the
coordinator to create one. It's just as simple as committing code...

The french local weaknesses
•Glossary is a real issue
•Need to reduce the Installation Guide translation delay
Interested ?

OpenStack I18n Team
Information/Contacts…
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/I18nTeam
openstack-i18n@lists.openstack.org
#openstack-i18n
• Weekly meetings every Thursday
• More activities in local translation groups.
Contact your local translation coordinator

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