The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 22-26, 2016
Well, then.
I've discovered another benefit for doing these. They help convince me that I'm not actually living the same week over again.
It's not that I think I'm living in a Groundhog Day situation. I just tend to do a lot of the same things every week, and I can see myself believing that there really isn't any variety to life.
"But surely," you would say to me, "your evenings should be full of variety; certainly enough to convince you that life is indeed moving forward and you're not stuck in a time loop."
To which I would reply: "Umm ... sometimes I watch episodes of Star Trek: Voyager instead of West Wing."
Moving on.
It's Outreach week! We're doing two versions now, remember, one print and one online. Although, the first part of the online version is the same as the print version, but still - the workload doesn't really change for proofreaders. The focus is on India for this issue, which is exciting because Train & Multiply gets a huge shout out from our India training in June. People in India have really embraced T&M, which is great, but also means more work for us. There are 1,652 officially recognized languages in India. Only about 150 have a sizeable population that speaks them, and there are 22 official languages. We've translated about four. I imagine we could spend a year just on Indian languages alone and still have plenty of work.
Speaking of languages, I counted up how many active projects we have going on right now. We use Trello for tracking (which if you haven't heard of it, it's a great program), and we have 25 open boards. Maybe half of those are going right now. For the rest, we've received requests, but we're still working out translators or fonts or something else is preventing us from starting. There's a lot to consider when translating something.
For example, the other thing I worked on this week is the test file. I talked about this last week, but this week I had to write up the process so that I can train others how to do this. It's a fairly simple process, but I ended up with roughly 18 steps before it's completed. And that's just when everything goes right!
We had a big discussion this week about what we do with materials people need from us. It's a real hassle to handle individual requests for information. We're trying to figure out how to get everything in one place, but only give access to people who need it.
Anyway, that discussion is by no means resolved. We figured out we needed to hire at least two more people, so that's something. Trouble is, it takes so long for people to fund, what do we do in the meantime?
So I guess this week was actually quite varied. Maybe it's just Fridays that seem the same. Or neverending. I'm ready to go home.
One more hour.
I've discovered another benefit for doing these. They help convince me that I'm not actually living the same week over again.
It's not that I think I'm living in a Groundhog Day situation. I just tend to do a lot of the same things every week, and I can see myself believing that there really isn't any variety to life.
"But surely," you would say to me, "your evenings should be full of variety; certainly enough to convince you that life is indeed moving forward and you're not stuck in a time loop."
To which I would reply: "Umm ... sometimes I watch episodes of Star Trek: Voyager instead of West Wing."
Moving on.
It's Outreach week! We're doing two versions now, remember, one print and one online. Although, the first part of the online version is the same as the print version, but still - the workload doesn't really change for proofreaders. The focus is on India for this issue, which is exciting because Train & Multiply gets a huge shout out from our India training in June. People in India have really embraced T&M, which is great, but also means more work for us. There are 1,652 officially recognized languages in India. Only about 150 have a sizeable population that speaks them, and there are 22 official languages. We've translated about four. I imagine we could spend a year just on Indian languages alone and still have plenty of work.
Speaking of languages, I counted up how many active projects we have going on right now. We use Trello for tracking (which if you haven't heard of it, it's a great program), and we have 25 open boards. Maybe half of those are going right now. For the rest, we've received requests, but we're still working out translators or fonts or something else is preventing us from starting. There's a lot to consider when translating something.
For example, the other thing I worked on this week is the test file. I talked about this last week, but this week I had to write up the process so that I can train others how to do this. It's a fairly simple process, but I ended up with roughly 18 steps before it's completed. And that's just when everything goes right!
We had a big discussion this week about what we do with materials people need from us. It's a real hassle to handle individual requests for information. We're trying to figure out how to get everything in one place, but only give access to people who need it.
Anyway, that discussion is by no means resolved. We figured out we needed to hire at least two more people, so that's something. Trouble is, it takes so long for people to fund, what do we do in the meantime?
So I guess this week was actually quite varied. Maybe it's just Fridays that seem the same. Or neverending. I'm ready to go home.
One more hour.