diff --git a/content/blog/2024-04-22-why-I-wanted-to-help-translating-the-AlmaLinux-website-to-Hebrew.md b/content/blog/2024-04-22-why-I-wanted-to-help-translating-the-AlmaLinux-website-to-Hebrew.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85470a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024-04-22-why-I-wanted-to-help-translating-the-AlmaLinux-website-to-Hebrew.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: "Why I wanted to help translate the AlmaLinux website to Hebrew" +type: blog +author: + name: "Noam Alum" + bio: "System Administrator at JetServer Hosting" + image: /users/noam.jpeg +date: '2024-04-22' +post: + title: "My recent contribution towards AlmaLinux foundation." + image: /blog-images/2024/weblate-translate-website-to-hebrew.jpg +--- + +## Preamble +I remember back in March when I went to [CloudFest](https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-03-26-almalinux-march-events-roundup/) I was so excited to meet benny Vasquez, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and when I got the chance to speak to her she gave me a lot of inspiration to contribute to AlmaLinux in any way I can. + +First thing I did when I got back home was open an account in the [AlmaLinux chat](https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/channels/town-square) and the [AlmaLinux Forums](https://almalinux.discourse.group/) to start engaging with the community. + +While translating the website to Hebrew was not on the top of my list it certainly was in mind, as a system administrator in a web-hosting company I can appreciate a good distribution when I see one, and so far I've been loving AlmaLinux OS! + +Most of our servers are using AlmaLinux OS and I can recall that a lot web-hosting companies in Israel are using it as well, this made me feel compelled to translate the website to Hebrew and make it more appealing for Hebrew-speaking users. + +## My experience +First of all I want to thank Cody Robertson for helping with [adding RTL support](https://github.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux.org/issues/498) to the website when it lacked it! The experience I've had while talking to fellow contributors was nothing but amazing, with fast response and care taken for you I was astonished how can a foundation run so smoothly and reliably. + +Translating the website was very straightforward. After creating an account in Weblate and heading to the [AlmaLinux Foundation project](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/almalinux/) I just needed to translate random sentences or words from English to Hebrew and all the hard work is done by Weblate and the industrious approvers. + +I encourage anyone to start and contribute to the AlmaLinux Foundation in any way they can, especially with translating the website to make it more accessible. It takes little-to-no linux knowledge to contribute in that way. + +[Click here to go to Weblate](https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/almalinux/) + +benny asked me to write a [documentation on how to help translate the website](https://wiki.almalinux.org/Help-translating-site.html), I was very comforted by the fact she asked ME out of everyone else to do so! Naturally, I agreed to do so, and I hope this helps! + +If you have any questions about translations, [come ask them in the ~www room](https://chat.almalinux.org/almalinux/channels/www) on the AlmaLinux Mattermost chat! diff --git a/static/blog-images/2024/weblate-translate-website-to-hebrew.jpg b/static/blog-images/2024/weblate-translate-website-to-hebrew.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7cc69f Binary files /dev/null and b/static/blog-images/2024/weblate-translate-website-to-hebrew.jpg differ diff --git a/static/users/noam.jpeg b/static/users/noam.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d98dbc Binary files /dev/null and b/static/users/noam.jpeg differ