Translate the Project Leaflet texts

The challenge

We love other languages! Help us make the most important documents for the project more comprehensible for people that don’t speak English by translating (parts of) them into another language that you speak fluently.

The documents we are talking about for now are:

The Project Leaflet
The Story of The Unity Express
The template letters to sponsors and partners
The project outline document for sponsors and partners

We desire to have the documents in the following languages: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

These languages are chosen because it are the languages spoken in all the countries that The Unity Express will travel through, with the exception of Spanish. This one is in because we know a lot of people in Spain have trouble reading English, and we want them on board as well.

Tips & requirements

Please only translate if you speak one of the requested languages fluently or as your mother tongue
The best way to translate the documents is via a text editor like Word. Be sure to indicate which piece of text is meant for what chapter or part.
After you are done translating, you can send the text to us
Use services like Google Translate to look up difficult words that you don’t know how to translate
If you have the time, please let someone else proofread your translation, to double check you got the message right

Things you don’t have to translate

Words like Unity Express and other brands in texts. That just looks silly.
Names of persons

Deadline

We would like to have the translations of the documents done before mid October 2011. This is because we have the Unity Express on Tour that month, where we will go to all the cities in the route to promote the event. It would be nice to have promotion material ready in people’s native language. If you accept the challenge of translating one or more documents, we would like to receive the translations within 2 to 3 weeks, starting from the moment you accept the challenge.

General resources you might need to complete this Challenge

Check out the "Get Involved" page to see how you get access to all of the necessary documents and information, like the public shared folder (provided by SugarSync)
Check out our Download section here on the website for the most frequently used files.

How accepting a Challenge works

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