6 things you can do to support our translation community

We want you to be able to run Code Clubs without any language barrier, so we’re working to make our projects available in as many languages as possible. At the heart of our translation efforts are volunteer translators from around the world.

How can you help us provide the translations you need? 

As you’re a Code Club volunteer, you can do lots of small (or not so small) things to help us support our community of volunteer translators, so that they can create more translations for you:

1. Tell us what you want us to translate

Share your input on how you use our translations and what other resources you’d like us to translate, by filling in this short survey.

2. Help us recruit more volunteer translators

Use these resources to reach out to your own community:

1. An email template to contact people you think might be interested in volunteer translation (copy and amend the text as needed), plus a PDF flyer to send
2. Some example social media posts to spread the word (copy and amend the text as needed)
3. Our YouTube video about translating for us — share it with your network

Share your input on how you use our translations and what other resources you’d like us to translate, by filling in this short survey.

Nina and Maja the Raspberry Pi Foundation Translation team.

3. Motivate our volunteer translators

Sharing the positive impact of our translated resources on social media using the hashtag #RPiTranslate, so that our volunteers see the results of their hard work and dedication.

4. Run a translation hackathon event

Get together as a group and translate the resources of your choice. We‘re providing a hackathon guide with everything you need to help you plan this.

5. If you’ve already created translations of our learning resources for your club…

Send them to us at translation@raspberrypi.org. We will review them and publish on our website, and we’ll credit you and/or your club so that everyone knows they’re able to learn in their own language thanks to you!

6. If you’re currently translating some of our resources, or are planning to…

Please let us know, so we can introduce you to our well-established translation process, which makes translating easier for you and helps us share your translations with other community members.

Through the time you give to volunteering for Code Club, you can also do much to build and support our translation community. Together, we can help all Code Clubs run without any language barrier!