Volunteer social thread #20

[pauamma]

I decided that achyroanthropology needs to be a word.

What have you guys been up to?

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[rydra_wong]

Working on my pull-ups (still otherwise immobilized with a broken foot).

[pauamma]

Dare I hope that even if the footbrokenness is unpleasant and tedious, the breaking at least happened doing something fun/pleasant?

[rydra_wong]

It was while climbing, so yes, you dare hope.

[afuna]

Not much, but I'm about to pick up xb95 at the airport!

[mark]

My answer to this post is now "teambuilding". :)

[mark]

PS, teambuilt!

[afuna]

Team built \o/

[sporky_rat]

Been working on learning Ring of Fire on the ukulele and preparing for Gulf Wars. (I've also been checking out the Support Board in hopes of finding things to answer!)

[pauamma]

It took me a while to figure out that your preparations likely wouldn't involve going back 30-35 years in time.

[mark]

I concur with this comment.

[congo]

I have no idea if this is the right place to ask (or if there even is one), but are you guys looking for translation volunteers, too? I've been looking around for language settings, but haven't found any, so I'm wondering if there are any plans to translate the site into other languages at some point and, if so, whether or not you'll need volunteers.

[misskat]

There are no plans to translate Dreamwidth into any languages other than English. There are a bunch of reasons for this, but the main ones are that translating is incredibly volunteer-intensive, burns folks out really quickly, and is nearly impossible to actually keep up with.

If you want to volunteer (and I strongly encourage you to do that!), I can find something for you to do. In particular, we need folks who can write FAQs and that sort of thing. Let me know if you're interested in doing that, and I'll help get you set up. :)

[congo]

That is sad, but understandable.

I would love to! I'm not sure how useful I'd be at anything not related to languages, but as long as it's not too tech-y, I should be fine. Hopefully.

[misskat]

Writing FAQs is mostly an exercise in explaining how to do things. The easiest way to help out is to check out the User Documentation section in Bugzilla, see if anything catches your eye, and then write the FAQ!

dw_docs has lots of useful information on how to do this, and the Manual of Style is also really helpful.

I am usually on IRC (freenode, #dreamwidth) if that's your thing. I'm MissKat there too. Feel free to hop on and bug me if you have questions!

[pauamma]

And to answer your other question, this is indeed a good place to ask.