ErCiccione-localizations.md

layout: cp
title: "ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March"
author: ErCiccione
date: 31 March 2019
amount: 144
milestones:
  - name: April
    funds: 33% (48 XMR)
    done: 7 April 2019
    status: finished
  - name: May
    funds: 33% (48 XMR)
    done: 7 May 2019
    status: finished
  - name: June
    funds: 33% (48 XMR)
    done: 7 June 2019
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 14 June 2019
    amount: 144

Hi, This is ErCiccione with a new proposal for another quarter. You can see my last proposal here.

Who

Thanks to the generosiy of the community, i've been able to coordinate the localization workgroup for more than a year now. The localization workgroup is responsable for keeping our wallets/software/documentation/website multilingual, with the goal of reaching as many people as possible.

I've been a Monero contributors for a couple of years now, and in this time i put my hands on basically all Monero projects. I like to be everywhere and at the moment, beside the localization workgroup, some of my major contributions include:

• Help with the maintainance of getmonero.org and the monero-gui repository
• I founded and maintain the Monero Ecosystem Project
• I created and maintain the official guide for the GUI wallet
• I do some scam hunting sometimes, but that's for fun :)

What

All goals from past FFS were achieved, except for moving Monerujo to Pootle. The emergency hard fork forced me to change many plans, and i found myself with few days and a lot of languages to work on, for the GUI. This situation was a big stress test for Pootle, and i'm happy to say it passed it. We managed to translate and review 2/3 of the languages of the gui (the total is more than 30 languages) in about 48 hours. Thousands of strings translated and reviewed and about 60 volunteers partecipated. That was an amazing response and i'm very proud of it, sure i aged faster than i should have in those days, but it worthed it :)  

What do i practically do?

My job consists in making Monero as multilingual as possible, so that we can reach as many people as possible. What i do can be divided in two categories: Support and coordination.