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It’s a web system which automates the translation workflow of complex international projects.</p> <p>Transifex helps projects work with an open community of translators to make their product available to a global audience. It helps software developers, documentation writers and webmasters globalize their products (or localize, depending on how one chooses to see the process) by openly receiving translations from a wide community via a dead-simple, batteries-included set of tools, which integrate well with existing workflows.</p> <div class="section" id="goals"> <h2>Goals<a class="headerlink" href="#goals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Some of the core goals of Transifex are the following:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Provide an interface for translators to submit translations to multiple projects, regardless of the type of the underlying VCS.</li> <li>Reduce the overhead a project maintainer usually undertakes to administrate accounts for translators.</li> <li>Help translators do more by eliminating the need to subscribe to each VCS and learn its commands and tricks.</li> <li>Encourage collaboration between developers and maintainers and thus, increase the language coverage of the participant projects.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="transifex-net"> <h2>Transifex.net<a class="headerlink" href="#transifex-net" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Projects with a significant size, such as the Fedora or Moblin distributions, can benefit with a self-hosted Transifex instance. Most other projects though will probably want to use one which already has an established community and the necessary tools to help the project get translated.</p> <p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.transifex.net/">Transifex.net</a> is a one-stop, batteries-included service which serves translations to independent projects, which don’t have to worry about deploying their own instance, growing a community and managing the infrastructure. Tranisfex.net is managed by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a>, the company sponsoring the development of Transifex itself.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="more-information"> <h2>More information<a class="headerlink" href="#more-information" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Transifex is an open source product. Its source code is freely available. Planning, development and bug reporting takes place at the development site of <a class="reference external" href="http://transifex.org/">http://transifex.org/</a>.</p> <p>Professional services such as 24/7 Support, Community Localization consulting and training are available by <a class="reference external" href="http://www.indifex.com/">Indifex</a>. 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