WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Okay, hi everyone. My name is Diana today. I'm a developer experience in 00:10.000 --> 00:16.000 junior Victoria metrics and today I'm going to be talking about how the translation 00:16.000 --> 00:21.000 make us happy or if they make us happy and how the organization builds actual 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 open source communities. A bit of myself, I'm an open telemetry contributor. 00:27.000 --> 00:34.000 I'm a client of Romania, a co-organizer and I'm also the colleague, 00:34.000 --> 00:41.000 CNC, a large board, neurodiversity group. So, before we jump on the next slides, 00:41.000 --> 00:47.000 I wanted to just say that this is like a personal journey. I have localization. 00:47.000 --> 00:55.000 I basically stumbled into localization because I was frustrated with the adoption 00:55.000 --> 01:03.000 of open telemetry in my company and then I realized how I can contribute to one 01:03.000 --> 01:08.000 of the most popular, cloud native projects at that moment. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 I was like, okay, there is code contribution but there is also no code contribution. 01:13.000 --> 01:16.000 So, apparently this is this thing called localization. 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 So, it's like what we can make no code contribution. Cool. 01:20.000 --> 01:24.000 So, this is how I stumbled on localization projects. 01:24.000 --> 01:30.000 One year ago actually in January, well right now it's February but anyway it's like one year ago 01:30.000 --> 01:36.000 and I was like really impressed with how big the community around it is. 01:36.000 --> 01:40.000 At least like in CNCF is quite, quite big. 01:40.000 --> 01:45.000 In Kubernetes as well in open telemetry and probably others. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 So, the impact on the community is really important. 01:49.000 --> 01:53.000 It's important because why you have so much technical documentation 01:53.000 --> 01:59.000 that appeal only to English speakers or obviously many of us speaking which as well 01:59.000 --> 02:05.000 but they don't reflect necessarily or they don't motivate us sometimes 02:05.000 --> 02:07.000 to understand the documentation behind it. 02:07.000 --> 02:13.000 So, for example take Spanish speaking people, right? 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 So, the community is really, really big, right? 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 So, it's really big. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 So, what if that documentation will be translated in Spanish as well? 02:21.000 --> 02:24.000 Because I live in Spain, I'm Romanian by origin. 02:24.000 --> 02:31.000 I was like trying to find out if there are any communities around the Spanish localization and there was. 02:31.000 --> 02:33.000 Currently there are not so many contributors. 02:33.000 --> 02:37.000 So, there's actually, let's say, constant contributors. 02:37.000 --> 02:42.000 There's a very small group like actually three and they're like sporadic contributors 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 that appear every now and then. 02:44.000 --> 02:52.000 So, little by little I found out as soon as I started contributing with the Spanish within the Spanish localization. 02:52.000 --> 02:56.000 That there's a big community around it. 02:56.000 --> 03:00.000 There's also the localization seats, maybe the deans are section of different 03:00.000 --> 03:05.000 special interest group, obviously depending on the architecture of every project. 03:05.000 --> 03:11.000 So, it could be other developer experience, it can be communication, it could be documentation, 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 you know. 03:12.000 --> 03:19.000 So, it kind of flows around this kind of three, maybe intersects within this three main areas. 03:19.000 --> 03:24.000 But it's also important because it drives up the developer productivity, right? 03:24.000 --> 03:30.000 So, imagine, you know, you have a technical documentation that translated into your native language. 03:30.000 --> 03:39.000 It will be probably easier for you a lot more appealing to start looking for it and be able to contribute or understand or give feedback, right? 03:39.000 --> 03:46.000 So, maybe Romanian is spoken only in one country and, you know, how many times do I see like, 03:46.000 --> 03:51.000 I don't know, things translated into Romanian, like very, very few times. 03:51.000 --> 03:55.000 So, unless they're like super cool action movies or something. 03:55.000 --> 04:00.000 So, for me it was like, okay, I'm going to start with the Spanish localization. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 It's understandable a bit more about the project. 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 I'm not a technical writer, I never was a technical writer. 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 I come from more like a, sorry world DevOps engineering. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 And then I got really into localization. 04:15.000 --> 04:19.000 But there are like people that drive localization projects that are taking the writers. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 They have a lot of experience. 04:21.000 --> 04:26.000 They know how to deal with, you know, all the technicalities, just like the previous talk. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 For example, and that's very, very interesting. 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 There is also automation under the hood for localization. 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 That's very nice. 04:34.000 --> 04:41.000 But the reason I got attached to localization is the opening that it gives for new contributors. 04:41.000 --> 04:47.000 So, new contributors, I don't know, let's say students, or not necessarily students, 04:47.000 --> 04:52.000 but like many people that want to contribute to open source communities. 04:52.000 --> 04:57.000 And they don't necessarily, and they want to do something that's more relaxing, right? 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 And for them, relaxing means, you know, contributing to localization. 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 So, that's one way to, to view it. 05:06.000 --> 05:12.000 So, like I said, localization definitely drives into contributor diversity. 05:12.000 --> 05:18.000 And I'm going to spend a bit more time around around that, not just because it's the language, you know, 05:18.000 --> 05:22.000 that if the technical documentation would be available into your own language, 05:22.000 --> 05:25.000 maybe that would be better for you. 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 But also about how can I say the accessibility, right? 05:29.000 --> 05:34.000 The accessibility opening, the gates, let's say, not only to English speakers, 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 but to a lot more speakers. 05:37.000 --> 05:42.000 So, for example, to give you some like figures, because we all like numbers. 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 The top, the most popular CNCF projects, Kubernetes, and open telemetry. 05:47.000 --> 05:52.000 Kubernetes has an outstanding amount of 15 languages in total. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 So, they're okay. 05:53.000 --> 05:57.000 So, I'm going to go to the description around that this really, really huge. 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 And the open telemetry right now has reasons to nine languages in total, right? 06:02.000 --> 06:08.000 And 20, 25, there has been a staggering amount of contributions, 06:08.000 --> 06:13.000 a staggering amount of PRs, of commits, even like emerging languages. 06:13.000 --> 06:20.000 So, only in last year, for example, we started to do two different special interest groups 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 in communication for Ukrainian and Romanian. 06:23.000 --> 06:30.000 So, yeah, people seem to be interested from this angle to contribute to open source. 06:30.000 --> 06:31.000 Right. 06:31.000 --> 06:39.000 So, what I did realize when I started to contribute is that localization is just not translating a page, 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 right? 06:40.000 --> 06:45.000 It's not just me going and being creative or on the translation of a document. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 It's also about automation. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 It's standardization. 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 So, this is something that's practically really technical under the hood. 06:53.000 --> 06:58.000 The whole workflow, the whole CICD, around it, it's important. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 And the automation is also growing within the community. 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 So, for just a given example, when I started last year with the first PR, 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 there were a lot of errors around the CICD. 07:09.000 --> 07:14.000 A lot of, let's say, mark down or a lot of MPNM, 07:14.000 --> 07:18.000 who you had to fix some errors, you had to do manually. 07:18.000 --> 07:27.000 So, yeah, the whole software engineering part around it was still in the beginner phase. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 But right now, just only after year, everything is very automated, right? 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 So, the effort of a contributor is a lot lower. 07:35.000 --> 07:39.000 So, you need to focus only on the content, on the actual documentation, 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 on the nuances of the language, obviously. 07:42.000 --> 07:49.000 What makes it different to pick a specific concept, you know, versus another concept. 07:49.000 --> 07:51.000 And that's it. 07:51.000 --> 07:57.000 But you don't need to, like, occupy your time and energy around the CICD automation. 07:57.000 --> 08:04.000 And that's important, because it drives up the rise of contributors, right? 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 So, it drives up the motivation. 08:06.000 --> 08:12.000 And it makes it relaxing, you know, as others of their engineers would put it. 08:12.000 --> 08:18.000 So, what I've seen is the whole automation workflows, getting better and better. 08:18.000 --> 08:23.000 Also, I've seen a lot of scaling around the documentation around localization. 08:23.000 --> 08:29.000 So, like I said, like, open-cellometry had, like, seven languages in 25 new, 08:29.000 --> 08:35.000 two new languages, and I'm pretty sure that this will scale a lot more in the future. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 The idea is that localization attracts polyglots. 08:39.000 --> 08:45.000 I already seen, like, here, two previous stocks, where, like, all the speakers were polyglots. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 I myself speak five languages, fluently. 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 My German is not, it's a bit rusty at the moment, but, yeah, it's a lot more efficient. 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 If it's written into your own language, right? 08:56.000 --> 09:01.000 So, I'm a lot more inclined to go to a page, give feedback on the comments. 09:01.000 --> 09:09.000 If you go to France, the appeal to use French in a lot of context is really, really high, right? 09:09.000 --> 09:14.000 So, you know, there's a conference next week, for example, like the whole quantitative day's promise, 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 is a conference that is spoken on French, right? 09:18.000 --> 09:23.000 So, it's also parts very embedded in the culture, right? 09:23.000 --> 09:28.000 The language is something not negotiable for many, many cultures. 09:28.000 --> 09:34.000 And it also, I would say, should be treated with respect in terms of localization. 09:34.000 --> 09:42.000 So, a little project that I did last year was, after I started contributing to the Spanish documentation, 09:42.000 --> 09:48.000 realizing that I also speak another language as my native language Romanian, 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 that wasn't there absolutely at all. 09:51.000 --> 10:00.000 And then, as myself, so how does one start in open source and in class native community around localization? 10:00.000 --> 10:04.000 So, open telemetry community was very helpful. 10:04.000 --> 10:08.000 They guided me how to, you know, do the initial steps. 10:08.000 --> 10:13.000 Obviously, I had to find contributors because you need actual people, not just you. 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 And you need to motivate them, right? 10:15.000 --> 10:21.000 So, once you start, it's not like, okay, I'm going, okay, all of you there with the website have fun. 10:21.000 --> 10:27.000 No, you need to keep motivating the people, you know, expanding maybe the community around it. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 So, yeah, little by little, you know, after a few PRs, we start to have fun. 10:31.000 --> 10:36.000 So, this is where the fun in the title, you know, the happy part starts. 10:36.000 --> 10:42.000 So, this is also work, we are just a few people, we are a very, very small group. 10:42.000 --> 10:47.000 And I'm here with, like, in January, we're like discussing, like, one of the PRs. 10:47.000 --> 10:53.000 Some of them are, after engineers, some of them never opened a PR or heard about GitHub before, 10:53.000 --> 10:59.000 but they are, like, official translators of Romanian and others in between maybe me. 10:59.000 --> 11:05.000 So, we're like discussing very important things about, you know, some CICD around it, 11:05.000 --> 11:08.000 and then at one point something happened and somebody asked, 11:08.000 --> 11:13.000 but how do we translate this expression? Like, like, unknown, unknowns. 11:13.000 --> 11:17.000 Like, what the, you know, it's in Romanian. We don't use that, you know, 11:17.000 --> 11:20.000 something really, really, like, never, nobody uses that. 11:20.000 --> 11:27.000 So, we had to, like, make up or actually, here, the official translator helped. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 She was like, oh, yeah, I know this because I found it in some source. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 I don't know, in, you know, in something I read, 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 and then she actually gave us the right translation. 11:38.000 --> 11:43.000 So, if you ask me, I would have said something total wrong at the same 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 the colleague that opened the PR, the software engineers, 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 if something totally gibberish, but, yeah, you know, so it really, 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 you realize with that fact that you don't know your own language. 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 And also, because many of us live in another country, 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 and, you know, we kind of forgotten our own native languages. 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 How important it is to give back, in, let's say, 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 from a culture perspective and be, 12:08.000 --> 12:13.000 how can I say, loyal to your, to your language. 12:13.000 --> 12:17.000 So, yeah, there's the sincere slug, by the way, 12:17.000 --> 12:20.000 if you know somebody who speaks Romanian, 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 but anyway, you can bring them to us. 12:23.000 --> 12:27.000 And this is me smiling. So, again, this is the, yeah, 12:27.000 --> 12:32.000 the happy part, neurodivergent part of me smiling. 12:32.000 --> 12:36.000 That's actually an open symmetry. 12:36.000 --> 12:39.000 Anyway, so actually, they gave some contributor words last year, 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 which was really nice because I didn't expect that, 12:42.000 --> 12:46.000 and so of us were parts of the localization project. 12:46.000 --> 12:50.000 So, another colleague is a contributing to Portuguese and Spanish. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 I myself support Spanish and Romanian. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 So, like, super happy. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 It's like, yeah, we did something good. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 We started something, like, you know, we're like, 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 you know, popular areas. So, yeah, that's why we're like smiling. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 So, yeah, but in the end, you have to continue contributing. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 So, it's not like you're gonna stop. 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 So, it's, I'm looking at the long run. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 So, that's it. How to start with auto. 13:12.000 --> 13:16.000 So, you can also check the QR if you're ever interested in that. 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 So, what would I see from my perspective, 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 the same, I'm not a technical writer, 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 what I would like to see from my perspective, 13:24.000 --> 13:26.000 maybe to addressing to you, 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 the community, there's more technical than I am, 13:28.000 --> 13:31.000 around that better automated workflows, right? 13:31.000 --> 13:34.000 So, a big topic around this is AI. 13:34.000 --> 13:36.000 My memory shirt just comes up really a lot, 13:36.000 --> 13:39.000 like in many, any special interest groups. 13:39.000 --> 13:41.000 You see the bought appearing, like, you know, 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 in the meeting, like, yeah, you want to admit 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 the, yeah, in the meeting, I don't know. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 So, and also many, many people that don't speak a specific language, 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 they come and they want to translate documentation 13:54.000 --> 13:56.000 with a help of AI, you know, 13:56.000 --> 13:59.000 but they never spoken that language ever in their lives. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Is that this creating the language or not? 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 I mean, 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 thank you, yes, I mean, you know, it's like, 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 oh, yeah, but I wanna make an open source, 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 I don't know, contribution, sure, 14:11.000 --> 14:15.000 but, you know, be more personal around that contribution, right? 14:15.000 --> 14:18.000 So, language is still something very, very important, 14:19.000 --> 14:22.000 sorry, here, I cannot help, right? 14:22.000 --> 14:26.000 So, yes, in some ways around the CICD, of course, 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 we all use cloud or whatever, 14:28.000 --> 14:31.000 we all use Google translate in some parts 14:31.000 --> 14:33.000 to maybe automate some things, 14:33.000 --> 14:37.000 but still, you know, if you're speaking a language 14:37.000 --> 14:40.000 and, you know, the word academy, you know, 14:40.000 --> 14:44.000 you should be, you know, loyalty around language. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 And expand the communities around the localization, 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 attract more contributors. 14:50.000 --> 14:53.000 So, for me, I'm still, so, this is how my journey began 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 because I was very frustrated with the fact 14:55.000 --> 14:58.000 that I couldn't do something code-related 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 in my company about open telemetry. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 So, as a revenge, I started to contribute 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 to the localization, I know, quant 1. 15:04.000 --> 15:06.000 After one year, I'm still thinking that 15:06.000 --> 15:10.000 I'm gonna go back to the coding contribution. 15:10.000 --> 15:13.000 So, I will have some free time for that, 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 I'll do that to some point. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 I would like to see the community 15:18.000 --> 15:22.000 maybe prioritizing localization within open source communities. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 So, it's not like, how can I say, 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 there is maybe like a small stigma 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 around no code contributions, right? 15:28.000 --> 15:31.000 Because, you know, us engineers or many engineers, 15:31.000 --> 15:34.000 like, oh, this is no contribution to life. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 Okay, I'm not talking to you, you're not really, you know, 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 serious about that, you know? 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 But yes, there is something serious around it, 15:40.000 --> 15:43.000 like we all know that organization has a very deep, 15:43.000 --> 15:48.000 also technical bones around that. 15:48.000 --> 15:52.000 We should organize more specific knowledge transfer. 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 So, this is what I noticed with my little group. 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 That is very important to have regular meetings. 15:58.000 --> 16:01.000 It's very important to create best practices. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 I create some best practices, for example, 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 how to commit a PR from eight to z. 16:05.000 --> 16:09.000 How to do the whole workflow for Romanian. 16:09.000 --> 16:12.000 That exists also in Spanish and many other languages. 16:12.000 --> 16:14.000 But it's important for, like I said, 16:14.000 --> 16:16.000 people that are not software engineers, 16:16.000 --> 16:18.000 so they don't do anything technical, 16:18.000 --> 16:21.000 so understand how this workflow is run. 16:21.000 --> 16:25.000 And obviously, add observability around localization projects, 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 because I work in observability, 16:28.000 --> 16:32.000 and there's kind of zero observability around that. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 If you're going to head up to, 16:34.000 --> 16:37.000 so the numbers that were like on a previous slides 16:37.000 --> 16:40.000 were taking from some GitHub actions, 16:40.000 --> 16:43.000 and God knows some looker dashboards, 16:43.000 --> 16:45.000 open signature community house, 16:45.000 --> 16:49.000 but there's not a proper observability around that. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 So, it will be nice to implement it. 16:51.000 --> 16:55.000 And yeah, directly involved in non-English speaking communities 16:55.000 --> 16:57.000 and providing feedback. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 How many people do they actually click on provide feedback 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 so the documentation to that button? 17:03.000 --> 17:08.000 Yeah, see what I mean, so yeah, exactly. 17:08.000 --> 17:10.000 So, how if you're like, you know, 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 it's in your native language, 17:12.000 --> 17:14.000 you'll be more inclined to hit that button and say, 17:14.000 --> 17:16.000 yeah, okay, I don't understand that, 17:16.000 --> 17:19.000 or this is rubbish, or any more explanation, 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 or you've made a mistake, maybe, 17:21.000 --> 17:24.000 in the language, et cetera, et cetera. 17:24.000 --> 17:26.000 So, I'm going to skip the takeaways 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 because that's, I'm running out of time. 17:28.000 --> 17:30.000 The resources are here. 17:30.000 --> 17:33.000 If you ever are interested to take a look at the, 17:33.000 --> 17:36.000 you know, utilization around Kubernetes and open telemetry, 17:36.000 --> 17:38.000 and thank you very much. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.000 The slides are on the GitHub repo, 17:41.000 --> 17:44.000 and I will also put them up to the talk. 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 Thank you. 17:46.000 --> 17:47.000 Thank you. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 Two minutes. 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 Yep. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 There is a person that they're just, 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 how talking about their implementation. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 How do you translate technique on board, 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 like, a world of infinity, like, magic trees, 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 but my next thing, that's a synology 18:12.000 --> 18:14.000 for my Spanish friend. 18:14.000 --> 18:16.000 I think you're always used at even board, 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 but you're not using anything in Spanish. 18:18.000 --> 18:21.000 Well, yeah, I was also, yeah, okay, 18:21.000 --> 18:24.000 so the question is, like, how do you translate 18:24.000 --> 18:25.000 like specific technical words, 18:25.000 --> 18:29.000 because many, many languages use the actual English words 18:29.000 --> 18:31.000 for many technical concepts. 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 Actually, you're going to do a first, 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 the dive on the internet, 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 and find out that those words are actually translated 18:38.000 --> 18:39.000 and words translated, 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 which is like, we're lazy, 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 and we're not using those concepts 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 because they're not cool, 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 but they are actually translated. 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 If not, you have to be a bit creative 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 and discuss with the community. 18:50.000 --> 18:53.000 So that's why we have these regular meetings. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 I never personally saw, like, 18:55.000 --> 18:57.000 concept being talked about, 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 technical concepts being talked about in one of the meetings, 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 but there sure is, you know, 19:01.000 --> 19:04.000 so even how you translate something that it's in English, 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 but you never use it in your own language. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 But around the technicality, I also have a lot of doubts, 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 and sometimes I just ask, 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 either my software, like, my friends 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 that they work with this all day long, 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 maybe they heard about it, you know, 19:19.000 --> 19:22.000 like, used someplace else.