Proposal to Establish the Growth and Globalization Workstream

[mitch]

Coming back around to this

I was looking at some of the cost estimates and word counts from the Terra Swarm proposal

GIVeth Gitbook Translations

Hey guys, All right, I made a bit of math and below I’m presenting the overview of all the docs listed in the file from ReForest. I am presenting this sheet for a package of 5 language translations: Italian - Spanish - Turkish - Portuguese - French (Optional) The titles below come from the aforementioned file from ReForest. TITLE N° of Words FAQ 2683 What is Giveth? 696 Giveth Community Covenant 1026 Code of Conduct 464 Community Communications Guide 1178 Giveth Circles 795 …

If at that point we quoted 26k words @ 0.12 a word (translation & QA) that would come out to ~$16.5k for 5 languages. For 2 languages that is 6.6k

Now there are a few big oversights on the translation work that will affect this. The first and foremost was the translation of the Giveth TRACE documentation, which was explicitly asked not to translate because the app will soon be deprecated and the related documentation is mostly irrelevant. There was also a bunch of blog posts that were arbitrarily selected and translated into spanish, maybe portuguese? hopefully not… I think overall this initiative suffered from a lack of coordination and communication of expectations.

@karmaticacid

We should definitely not translate Giveth TRACE because it will be deprecated when Rinkeby is deprecated .

Correct me if I’m wrong but I cannot find anywhere, forum, discord or DMs, where we requested the TRACE documentation or blog posts to be translated.

I know however we did ask for a few more documents to be done after this first quote so let’s tack on another ~2000 words to be generous. so 28k words @ 0.12 a word = $3,360 per language, let’s assume Growth and Globalization did 100% Portuguese and 75% of the Spanish translations. $3,360 * 1.75 = 5,880. Factor in what you already received in funding $1000 (5000 GIV) from Gardens and $300 (6000 GIV) later from Terra Swarm this would mean there is outstanding is $4580 (~76k GIV at current prices).

This isn’t far off from the updated request, I know this isn’t a great answer for you translators because the work is already done but from a perspective of the org, spending funds on translating irrelevant documentation doesn’t feel great.

Can you accept a proposal for 76k GIV? Overall I’m very impressed with the quality of work, translating, preserving markdown formatting, being able to correctly submit PRs, I know it’s a lot of work and most translators couldn’t wrap their heads around it so I would like to especially preserve a good relationship with your group @MrBear.

Here’s a poll for general signalling:

• 76k GIV is acceptable.
• No, it should be MORE. I will comment.
• No, it should be LESS. I will comment.
• Abstain.