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It's been 14 days since the new translation teams formed and people either formed new teams or added to existing teams.
In the case of the Dutch translation team, we had 4 new additions to the team which made it a full team of 5 translators and one LM.

The object of this post is to tell you a little bit about our Dutch translation team and the work we've been doing so far. I am planning to make an update bi-weekly. 

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# The Team


Since the 2nd of September we have a full Dutch translation team for the DaVinci/Utopian translation project.
The team consists of:
LM (language moderator) @misslasvegas

Translator @minersean has been translating for utopian projects for some time and was our first translator since the 'break' for translations. 

Translator @altrosa joined our team in the last application round and has since been working like a horse! You may also know her as @soyrosa

Translator @anouk.nox joined the team in the last round and will possibly translate the less technical projects in the beginning, but I am sure she will be full on once she gets going (if her daughter lets her :) 

Translator @dragonsandsnakes joined in the last application round and is still figuring things out. I have no doubts of her abilities, so I am looking forward to see her first work!

Translator @tokentattoo joined in the last application round as well and also still figuring things out. 






# The Work

Not long after we all came together on our Dutch translators DaVinci discord channel, @minersean took the initiative to draw up a document to walk newcomers through all the different phases. He made it in a way that it was easy to understand. It's quite a bit of reading and searching when you first start out. He made this easier. 
***That's*** what I call team work! My thanks goes out to @minersean for making it easier on the newcomers and me as well. 

# Tranlations to date:
@minersean used to work on the Steem Whitepaper, but with mutual agreement, our new translator @altrosa now works on the remaining part of that translation. 
She finished her first translation on September 4th and has been consistently adding new translations to the Steem Whitepaper. It won't be long till that's finished 100%. 

@minersean has decided to keep working on the translation for Byteball and we're starting to see an end to this project as well. 

The translated parts are as follows:
### Steem Whitepaper:
September 4th 2018 
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@altrosa/translating-the-steem-whitepaper-or-english-dutch  (1100 words)
September 6th 2018
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@altrosa/translating-the-steem-whitepaper-or-english-dutch-or-2  (1100 words)
September 7th 2018
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@altrosa/translating-the-steem-whitepaper-or-english-dutch-or-3  (1000 words)
September 10th 2018
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@altrosa/translating-the-steem-whitepaper-or-english-dutch-or-4  (1015 words)
September 12th 2018
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@altrosa/translating-the-steem-whitepaper-or-english-dutch-or-5   (1015 words)

Crowdin link for the project: https://crowdin.com/project/steem-whitepaper/nl#

In total @altrosa translated 5230 words in these two weeks. Quite impressive!

### Byteball:

September 5th 2018
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@minersean/byeball-username-attestation-bot-translation-to-nl-dutch-478-words

@minersean is a busy man. He is still in college and has other priorities of course. However, I appreciate all the work he does in spite of his full schedule. Byteball is his baby and he takes great pride in the translation of this project. 

The other three translators haven't translated anything yet, but will surely find their project soon, with some guidance on my part. 

# Issues
 Luckily, there aren't many. Dutch can be a difficult language to translate into and we have seen this especially in the Steem Whitepaper. There are times when you can't just translate the text literally and it is the translators job to play with words, find the right ones and still keep the meaning of the original text in order. This is not always easy, but was managed well. We have also found that there are a few words in the Steem Whitepaper that shouldn't be translated at all, but kept in the original language (English). After some deliberations we came to the conclusion that this is, in fact, the best way to go. These words are all easily understood by a Dutch person. 

# Conclusion



After working with @minersean and @altrosa for a while, I've come to the conclusion that they are both very capable translators. @minersean knows his tech terms and this is absolutely his strength. Technical texts can sometimes involve a lot of research and can therefore take longer. 
@altrosa is getting well accustomed to the material and is finding the right Dutch words, even for complicated sentences. Dutch isn't the easiest language to translate into, so this is quite impressive ***and*** it takes a lot of work off my shoulders as I don't have to rewrite anything. 
Both translators are very proficient in the Dutch language and I will never find any mistakes in regards to grammar or spelling. I'm happy to have them on my team and I'm looking forward to see more of their work. I know that once the others have started as well, the team will keep me quite busy. Just the way I like it!

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