Primary tutorial language?

[feinstaub]

Hi,

if I would contribute an new tutorial for OpenTechSchool - e.g. about how to download the code of a free software project and tinker with it - is there a requirement that the primary language is English?

I teach German undergraduate students and in my experience the German language is much easier to grasp for them.

Thanks for feedback.

[xMartin]

Hi,

there's no such requirement. It's just good practice because more people in the community would be able to use it and contribute to it and it's more common to translate from English to other languages than the other way round.

Sounds like a very useful project idea. We'd be happy about this contribution and we'd love to hear more about it. Would be great if you could write a bit more about your idea in our forum: http://discourse.opentechschool.org/

[lehmannro]

Happy to discuss this more on Discourse, but my tl;dr would be: Primary language is irrelevant. However, I'd strongly suggest using Sphinx for your material as it facilitates translations much simpler than other documentation frameworks. For one, we can use Transifex with that. :-)

Side note: We should probably document this for future authors approaching us.