Help translating for Raspberry Pi Foundation

Hi all!

I wanted to share my motivation for being a volunteer to translate tutorials from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. With this, I hope to get some people excited about the idea and maybe sign up for volunteering yourself!

As a father of two kids under the age of 10, I believe that even such young children can be playfully introduced to programming concepts. Further, technology has never been to easily available: start with visual block programming, move on to simple python after a while, and off they go. All for free, all can be done in the browser. Amazing times.

I also think that good resources for kids to follow and learn are, unfortunately, rare. One of the best resources I know of is from the Raspberry Pi Foundation at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/paths. These are really easy to follow, step-by-step tutorials, each resulting in finished projects, and each progressing in difficulty.

Sadly, these are mostly (for now!) in English only. But the foundation has organized a volunteering community to help translate these projects into all languages. I am doing work to translate these into German, and it is so fun to see your own translations getting put online. It is so fulfilling to think that some kid out there gets to learn programming thanks to my translation.

Go to https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/translating-for-raspberry-pi/ to sign up if you speak a language other than English and help. They also provide reference letters and volunteering certificates, if you need that extrinsic motivation :slight_smile:

Cheers!