Current events/Archive

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Revision as of 17:07, 19 February 2009

• December 30: Our first Telegu translation is online--John Piper's A Sign: United and Fearless with the Gift of Suffering.
• December 11: Welcome to some of our newest translators: Emma Del Gado (French), Herich Gunawan (Indonesian), Laura Dal Carlo (Italian), Maria Castro (Portuguese), Dahlee Johnson (Romanian), Katie Haslam (Spanish), Alejandra Poszler (Spanish), and Wendy Soto (Spanish)! Thank you all for joining with us!
  
• November 17: We have had over 30 translators join us in the past month! Welcome to Verónica Rivero (Spanish), Kimberley Cooper (French), Benedita Júdice (Portuguese), Luz Bordenkircher (Spanish), Ernesto Calderon (Spanish), Tania Ricci (French), Paula Lara (Spanish), Alessandro F. Villa (Italian), Mariavita Mapelli (Italian), Guillermo Uiarte (Spanish), Christiane Jost (Portuguese), Vicki L. Olton (Spanish), Lanny Utoyo (Indonesian), Polly Sung (Chinese), Ivana Benzaquén (Spanish), Marthina Pettersson (Spanish), Helena Cuñado (Spanish), Claudia Berzoini (Italian), Novy Ponggele (Indonesian), Francesco Perilli (Italian), Yingwu Liu (Chinese), Ileana Borbón Mora (Spanish), Eliana Fierro (Italian), Miska Wilhelmsson (Finnish), Aurelia Popa (Romanian), Cecilia Lindfors (Swedish), Christine Bodart (French), Les Herasymchuk (Ukrainian), Ljerka Toth (Croatian), Susan Margaretha, (Indonesian) Anne Fokina (Russian), Pilar Peña (Spanish), and Gertrudes Mendonca (Portuguese). Thank you all for partnering with us to make these resources available in so many languages!
  
• October 31: Today we launched a wiki dedicated entirely to Spanish materials. You can find it at http://es.gospeltranslations.org. Thanks to all of our volunteers who have helped make this happen! Please let us know as you find things there we can improve.
• October 17: We would like to extend a very warm welcome and thanks to some of our newest translators: Amy Elias (Arabic), Ana Villoslada (Spanish), Flavia Martins dos Santos (Portuguese), Natalia Pedrosa Garcia (Spanish), Pasqual Jabaloyas (Spanish), Ruth Lyssette Santos Westphal (Spanish), Sarah Karambiri (French), Thomas Menz (German), and Yiting Lee Pacheco (Spanish)! They have just completed their first translations. We also now have a German Resources page and a Romanian Resources page. Thank you to Jutta Wege and Ecaterina Cherdivarenco for helping us!
• October 6: Gospel Translations turned 1 year old on September 24. We now have 633 translated resources online, 272 volunteer translators enrolled, 26 active languages, and a content database of over 1000 articles, chapters, and sermons to translate. Thank you to our partners and volunteers for making it all happen!
• September 18: Translators, did you notice the new translator's handbook link on the left menu? We're developing that to help you do your job more easily. Please take a look and tell us if you have suggestions to improve it!
  
• September 16: The Romanian translation of Why Small Groups? has been posted. A very big thank you to the Metanoia Church for this translation and to Marge Tamboer for uploading and formatting the text!
• September 2: Gospel Translations now has resources online in 26 languages other than English. Thank you to all our dedicated volunteers for helping make that happen!
• August 19: We now have over 100 resources in Portuguese and over 280 Spanish resources. The first traditional Chinese translation has just been posted, as well. Thank you, translators and uploaders for generously giving your time to make these resources available! We're also happy welcome our newest translators, Peter Herzog (German), Andrea Lazarova (Slovak), and Jonas Braga (Portuguese).
• July 31: Welcome to our newest translators: Felipe Chamy (Spanish), Dagnia Tooth (Spanish), Abeneazer Gezahegn (Amharic), Maureen Okundi Aseno (Luo), Roberto Freire (Portuguese), and Regina Guimaraes Trigueirinho (Portuguese)! Thank you all for joining us! We now have translations in 20 languages and over 250 translated resources available. Thank you all for hard work!
• July 2: Our first Japanese translation was recently completed! And a big welcome to our eight newest translators: Pascal Blin (French), Géraldine Husser (French), Anna Judák (Hungarian), Brinda Runghsawmee (French), Yen Nie (Bahasa Indonesia), Victor Guo (Chinese), Lianala Andrianjatovo (French), and Jutta Wege (German)!! Thank you all for joining us.
• May 21: A big welcome to the newest members of our team: Chris Royce (uploading help), Nathan Biamont (uploading help), Raul Pons (Spanish), Rhea Paredes (Tagalog), Kenneth Clayton (uploading help), Katie Weber (uploading help), Gerhard Arnsdorff (Spanish), Jennifer Millett (uploading help), Bill Pfister (Spanish), and Ruth Forzani (Portuguese)!!
  
• May 12: Our Dutch Resources page is now available!
  
• May 5: Check out the new Gospel Translations video!
• May 1: Gospel Translations would like to welcome the newest addtions to our team: Charity Brown (Spanish), Glen Melo (Cebuano), John Ganjian (Armenian), Filipe Niel (Portuguese), Stefanie Deis (German), and Lydia Bentley (uploading help)!! Thank you all for joining us!
• April 17: Our first Hungarian translation was completed today! And a big welcome goes out to the newest members of our team: Priscilla Borges (German/Portuguese), Carlos Centeno (graphic design), Diane Boucher (uploading help), and Rosana Bergquist (reviews)!!
• April 4: A big welcome to our four newest translators: Noemi Horvath-Ancsan & Gergo Horvath (Hungarian), Stefanie Holt (German), and Marianna Mező (Hungarian)!! And welcome also to Jaime Maurer who is kindly helping us upload material!
• April 1: Interested in learning how you can get involved in other ways besides translation? Check out our new How to Help page that lists both general needs and more specified needs such as programming and web/graphic design.
• March 28: A big welcome to the newest members of our team: Kelsey Smith (wiki admin) and Chris & Joy Alfred (Yoruba)! This past week, translations were begun in Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, Bahasa Indonesia, Yoruba, Cebuano, Portuguese, and German. Translations were also completed in Chinese and Korean!
• March 24: A big welcome to our newest translators: Bethany Patterson (Cebuano), Keith Patterson (Cebuano), Marlia Piedramartel (Portuguese), Evy Taracena (Dutch), Shannon Yeo (Korean), and Debora Fürst (German)!! We are so grateful for each of you.
• March 14: Our first Hungarian translation was begun this week, while translations also got underway in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Chinese!
• March 14: A big welcome to our two newest translators: David Anderson (Spanish) and Dawn Aldridge (Spanish)!
• March 10: Our Italian Resources page is now available!
  
• February 22: A big welcome to Willemien Janssen, our first Dutch translator!
  
• February 21: Our Portuguese Resources page is now available!February 15: Our first Moroccan translation was begun this week, and our first Korean translation was also completed! A big welcome to our two newest translators, Ahd Jadid (Moroccan) and Phoebe Kisambo (Kiswahili)!
• February 14: Resource pages are now available in French, Russian, and Spanish! Many thanks to all the translators who made this possible!
• February 12: Our Bahasa Indonesia and Chinese Resources pages are now displaying translated titles!
• February 11: Our Chinese Resources page is now available! We are very grateful to each of our Chinese translators for making this possible!
• February 9: Our first Telegu translation was completed this week, while translations were also begun in Spanish, Korean, French, and Arabic! A big welcome to our two newest translators, Sung Eun Kim (Korean) and Ernest Osuchukwu (Igbo)!
• February 1: Our first Hebrew translation started this week, and translations also commenced in Spanish, Portuguese, Telegu, Magar, and French. A big welcome to our two newest translators, Asaf Pelled (Hebrew) and Fernando Macena (Portuguese)!
  
• January 28: Welcome to our six newest translators: Sylvia Yessenia Gonzalez (Spanish), Christian Rekowski (German), Roberto Freire (Portuguese), Giulliana Tessarin Almeida (Portuguese), Paul Chintada (Telegu), and Jose Sanchez (Spanish).
• January 23: Did you notice the new homepage? Now visitors to our website are immediately given the option to see our Spanish Resources. Muchas gracias to all of our Spanish translators who have helped to make this possible!
• January 17: Our 6th Russian translation is under review! January 15: Our 4th Italian translation and 2nd Portuguese translation are now awaiting review! And a big welcome to our newest translator, Yang Ye (Chinese)!
• January 14:Our migration to our new web servers is complete now--thanks to everyone for your patience over the weekend as we made the upgrade.
  
• January 9: Our 16th Indonesian translation is now complete and awaiting review, and a big welcome to our two newest translators: Rodrigo Correia (Portuguese) and Dorval Riveroll (Spanish)!
• January 8: Our first Japanese translation is underway, and our first Portuguese translation is awaiting review!
• January 4: Our first German translation is now in progress!
• January 4: A big welcome to Alex Koudlai (Russian), Elvia Rodríguez (Spanish), Russ Sandifer (French), Jeff Locke (French), Emily Schankweiler (German), Carlos Placido (Spanish), Josephine Zheng (Chinese), Simon Pleasants (Japanese), Joel Badal (Assyrian), Samuel Path (French), Ted Seifu (Amharic), and Simone Andrade (Portuguese), our 12 newest translators!
• January 2: Our fifth French translation has been completed and is awaiting review!
• January 1: Happy New Year to all of our translators! Thank you for helping to spread the gospel in all the world's languages, and serving other Christians across the globe with your talents.
  
• December 19: Our sixth Chinese translation has been completed and is awaiting review!
• December 13: We now have 13 Indonesian translations in progress!
• December 12: We have assigned reviewers to go over the Spanish translations we've completed so far. Once we have 10 articles reviewed and approved, we'll publish our first resources page in Spanish!
• December 6: We continue to add new translators across the 8 languages we're actively working in. This week marked the addition of two new active Chinese translators, and another in Russian as well!
• November 29: We've launched a new home page design that we hope will make it easier for translators to get plugged into our network and begin working on projects. If you can think of any improvements, please let us know!
• November 29: Gospel Translations now has more than 40 active translators in a wide variety of languages--Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and others. Thanks to everyone for the contributions you've made over the last few months!