Daily bread 06/03/2017

• The Difference Between Translation and Localization

  • website localization is about refining your message and curating your brand to meet the cultural, functional, and language expectations of your global markets.

• Google's new free course could help you land a sweet gig localizing apps

  • Localization
    • making a product suitable for use in a particular country or region
  • can lead to a lucrative career
  • 85-percent of people won’t use a product if it isn’t in their native language
  • If you’re good with languages and want a job in the technology industry, but don’t necessarily want to be a coder,

• Free software is suffering because coders don't know how to write documentation

  • annotated examples
  • Documentation means
  • autogenerated API references
  • to make sure your library can be easily adopted.
  • in-depth tutorials
  • you know who your fellow collaborators are
  • builds a sense of community
  • what they’ve accomplished,
  • clearly-defined sense of mission and purpose.
  • clearly explains a project’s processes
  • contributing guides and codes of conduct
  • valued more by groups that are underrepresented
  • like women
  • Documenting software is extremely difficult
  • twenty-five percent of open source contributors say they read and write English less than “very well.”

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