Did you know English is not the most spoken language in the world? Currently, it's Mandarin Chinese, then Spanish, then English, then Hindi, then Arabic.

Did you know that projects have proven to be most successful when they are being worked on by the most diverse team members? Diversity of brainpower are key in any project we start.

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The @steemalliance is a huge project for the betterment of Steem that is currently in the 'Working Group' phase. Everyone is volunteering at this point to get a Foundation started that will probably receive a significant chunk of donations from Steemit, Inc, so we can get some great projects that are going to be selected through the Foundation a serious kickstart.

I'm not going to get into the details because they have been posted on the official @steemalliance account (if this post has already been translated in other languages, feel free to post them in the comments). Now, the projects' working language is English, and although that works for me, my multi-lingualism plus background in psychology always gives me that itch that says we can get more if we'd somehow be able to bring more diversity together.

@alexvan was already posting about the need for more languages a few weeks ago, and a few days ago @travisung (working group member) called for translators for the project. The @steemalliance working group has a lot of work on their plate and decided translations should be a community effort. That's when @travisung tried to get the ball rolling but since he's a working group member he shouldn't spend too much time on it, so I will do my part to get up and running.

What needs to happen?

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As @travisung states in his post: "the working group probably exists for about 2 more months" (might be shorter, might be longer) and will probably put up about 1 post a week (might be more, might be less). Ideally every post gets translated into multiple languages so we achieve a bigger reach across Steem globally and get in more input from a more diverse range of Steemians than just those from the Western/English speaking world.

Practically this means, if we can get 2-4 translators per language, you'd help translate a post not even once a week, maybe once or twice a month. As I mentioned before: everyone is doing this voluntarily, so there's no promised payment, but because I find this important I'll try to upvote every translation and @travisung is willing to do the same.

You'd do it because you'd want the input for the @steemaliance also represent the brainpower and creativity from Steemians from your side of the world, your culture, speaking your language.

How?

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There's a 'Translation Discord' set up for this exact goal, and if you send me a DM via Discord (soyrosa#1544) I'll send you an invite so we can keep the Discord clean and focused. You can change your nickname to represent your name + language and from then on per post you simply discuss among your fellow translators who is going to be translating (and proofreading) the post. Once translated you can publish it on your account and @stall-transl will resteem the post.

That's it.

A simple job, that doesn't have to involve much time, but is important and will help the @steemalliance get in more proposals with a bigger variety of input. Are you in?

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I'm already DM'ing a few people, but I know from previous projects I've done to connect people speaking English only as a second language I have many multi-lingual followers. My hope through this post is I can get some of these people interested and help achieve this goal of spreading the word all over Steem, even in some of the more Niche communities.

I hope to see your name pop-up in my DM's and we can start working together! Cheers and thanks!