Looking for an intern?

[Jeffrey Beatty]

Hi everyone,

I'm working with a local university that has a strong
translation/localization program (Brigham Young University) on an
experimental program. This program aims to involve translation &
localization undergraduate students in our localization program through "on
campus internships." While remaining at BYU, these students would be tasked
with helping a willing localization community to keep all of its l10n
projects up-to-date for the 2016 seasonal release campaigns as part of an
internship course for 16 weeks.

What you gain:
The hope is that by being involved for 16 weeks they will stay beyond the
semester and grow to become core contributors within your localization
communities. Essentially, this would be a potential funnel of new
localizers for your community with a volunteer commitment to remain
actively engaged for at least 16 weeks, if not more. Your willingness to
take on these students would mean that you would need to train, mentor, and
review their work, just as with any new localizer. I will also be on hand
to help with this training and mentoring.

What the student gains:
Real-life experience, networking, and university credit for the course.

If this is something that your l10n community is interested in being
involved in, please send me an email by Friday. 4 December. This is opt-in
only. If it's successful, I'm hoping that we can roll something like this
out into other universities around the globe with similar on-campus
internship programs for translation/localization students.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Jeff

[Jeffrey Beatty]

Hi everyone,

Thank you to all of you who have reached out with interest about this so
far. I realize that this requires some further explanation.

The on-campus internship is not a Mozilla program, but a university-owned
program. These universities have created it to connect their localization
students into real-world projects throughout a 16 week semester and provide
them with course credit for their work. Brigham Young University (BYU) is
one of these universities. They have reached out to Mozilla asking if there
are opportunities for their students to gain real-world localization
experience with Mozilla through *their* on-campus internship program.
Mozilla provides the opportunity, the university (in this case BYU)
provides the students (aka new localizers for your community) and the
course credit (to the students).

I'm interested in experimenting with this program to learn if such programs
could be used as effective localization recruitment pools. If your l10n
community has struggled to find new localizers in the past and would be
interested in exploring this as a potential recruitment pool for your l10n
community, please get in touch with me with any questions.

Thanks,
Jeff

[Michal Stanke]

Hi Jeff.

In case there is any Czech student interested, he/she will be welcomed to
join us. My only concern is, we have most work done very quickly and at
this moment we are near 100%, so cannot guarantee how many strings and
texts we can have for them and in what portions.

FYI vesper was collecting list of universities for possible connection for
SUMO, so maybe good to get in touch with him too.

Cheers,
--
Michal Stanke

Dne 3. 12. 2015 6:40 napsal uživatel "Jeffrey Beatty" <jbe...@mozilla.com>:

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[Michael Wolf]

Jeffrey Beatty schrieb:

> I'm interested in experimenting with this program to learn if such programs
> could be used as effective localization recruitment pools. If your l10n
> community has struggled to find new localizers in the past and would be
> interested in exploring this as a potential recruitment pool for your l10n
> community, please get in touch with me with any questions.

Hi Jeff,

the idea and the project are very interesting, but: Which language
skills do the students have? I think this is the most important point
that locale teams would like to know. If there are no needed language
skills they might help l10n drivers. Translation is one part of the
localization process only.

I think that none of the students speaks Upper or Lower Sorbian unless
there are Sorbian speaking students from Serbin, Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbin,_Texas


Regards,

Michael

[Vee Satayamas]

Hello Jeff,

The idea is very interesting. I talked to a lecturer at Kasetsart
University. She said that every student has to intern in order to
graduate. However they need to submit some formal documents to the
university. Can Mozilla Foundation (or something else) give
certifications to students?

Vee Satayamas

[Jeffrey Beatty]

Thanks Michal. I'll add Czech to the list. Having them help test or work on
lower priority projects is also a good option.

I'll definitely get in touch with vesper to see if he's found other
universities that offer similar programs to their students. If this
experiment with BYU turns out well, it would be great to find similar
programs offered by other universities and increase the recruitment pool. I
know it's difficult for many l10n communities to know where to find new
localizers.

Jeff

>> I'm interested in experimenting with this program to learn if such
>> programs
>> could be used as effective localization recruitment pools. If your l10n
>> community has struggled to find new localizers in the past and would be
>> interested in exploring this as a potential recruitment pool for your l10n
>> community, please get in touch with me with any questions.
>>

>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>> 2015-12-02 15:44 GMT-07:00 Jeffrey Beatty <jbe...@mozilla.com>:
>>

[Jeffrey Beatty]

Thanks Michael. There's a surprisingly large amount of linguistic diversity
in Utah (where BYU is located). The state has even been named the most
bilingual/linguistically diverse state of the US in the past. While there
are certainly many people fluent in the languages you might expect (e.g.,
Spanish, German, French, etc.) I've also found Estonian, Guaraní, Malay,
Esperanto, Icelandic, and others at BYU. Many of these are interested in
improving both their technical and translation skills in a real-world
setting.

Jeff

[Michael Bauer]

In the absence of the right language skills, maybe some might be
interested in not technically translating but looking at strings,
considering translation and then adding comments when they think this
might be useful, like "Edit" Noun/Verb or stuff like that? I just had
this discussion with a client about how useful (or not) screenshots of
everything would be and my comment was that if the commenting is good,
then 99% of strings don't need screenshots.

Michael

Sgrìobh Jeffrey Beatty na leanas 03/12/2015 aig 17:55:

[Jeffrey Beatty]

I think that's a good use of their time as well. In reality, if we can find
a student to funnel into your community, it's up to your discretion to
determine how they'll be the most helpful in contributing to keeping
projects up-to-date.