.. _intro-overview: ========== Overview ========== .. rubric:: "Help people read in their native language." Transifex is a modern, open-source localization platform. It's a web system which automates the translation workflow of complex international projects. 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. Goals ===== Some of the core goals of Transifex are the following: * Provide an interface for translators to submit translations to multiple projects, regardless of the type of the underlying VCS. * Reduce the overhead a project maintainer usually undertakes to administrate accounts for translators. * Help translators do more by eliminating the need to subscribe to each VCS and learn its commands and tricks. * Encourage collaboration between developers and maintainers and thus, increase the language coverage of the participant projects. Transifex.net ============= 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. Transifex.net_ 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 Indifex_, the company sponsoring the development of Transifex itself. More information ================ Transifex is an open source product. Its source code is freely available. Planning, development and bug reporting takes place at the development site of http://transifex.org/. Professional services such as 24/7 Support, Community Localization consulting and training are available by Indifex_. For more information, please refer to the company's website. .. _Transifex.net: http://www.transifex.net/ .. _Indifex: http://www.indifex.com/
