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I'm a FreeBSD documentation committer, and my interest in translation is 
to help make the translation process easier.  Translators and translated 
documentation is often the first encounter people will have with a 
project like FreeBSD.  Our translation processes have not kept up with 
the quantity of our documentation.  Fixing that would make translating 
much less work, and allow us to lower the barrier to entry for volunteer 
translators.  At the same time, it would simplify editing documentation 
for English speakers.

During the Developer Summit at BSDCan 2014, Benedict Reuschling 
presented an approach to this using existing tools for the PO/gettext 
translation system used by many other projects:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Translation

Personally, I only speak English, but would still like to make it easier 
for others to translate our documentation.