Retr-O-Mat: Create, tweak, print & share plans for (agile) retrospectives A collection of activities / methods to inspire scrummasters and facilitators in general

See it live at: http://plans-for-retrospectives.com (or http://retr-o-mat.com)

Retr-O-Mat is primarily run by me, Corinna Baldauf, so if you've got questions, suggestions, etc. please get in touch:

• [email protected]
• @findingmarbles on Twitter

You'd like to get involved with Retr-O-Mat? Great!

The easiest way to contribute is to submit an activity: https://docs.google.com/a/finding-marbles.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZZV1hPYWVZUDc2MFNsUEVRdXpMNWc6MQ

Or send a photo illustrating an activity (see above for contact details).

The French translation is already live. Additionally there are a couple of translations under construction. Our team of awesome translators:

• Pierre Martin and Frank Taillandier - French
• Tobias Ranft and Judith Andresen - German
• Linda van der Pal - Dutch
• Xavier Verges - Spanish (and possibly Catalan)
• Weronika Kedzierska - Polish

Your mother tongue is up there? Join them! For two people it's half the work. Science! ;)

Or "open" your own language.

Language files reside in the "lang/" directory. There's 2 files per language:

• The "index_*.php"-files contain the general text on the page as PHP variables
• The "activities_*.php"-files contain the activities (& phase titles) as a JS array

You don't have to translate all activities at once. Just start at index 0 and work your way down. The first live version of Retr-O-Mat had 15 activities. So as soon as you've translated indexes 0-14, your language will go live :)

(The indexes should stay the same across language, so don't move activities around.)

Please use HTML entitities for special characters (Examples: ü ç ñ)

To test your translation of the "index_*.php"-file you need a server with PHP. To make the index.php load your language, you add the parameter "lang" to the URL. Example: Let's say you translate into Chinese and have created "index_cn.php" in the "lang"-directory. Then you type into your browser something like:

http://localhost:8080/?lang=cn or http://localhost:8080/?id=2-6-10-11-15&lang=cn

(Ah, the file "activities_cn.php" also has to exist or it won't work. Fortunately it doesn't have to be translated ;)

To test your translatation of the "activities_*.php"-file you need a browser with JS enabled and either also the PHP running server or you save a local copy of index.html of the live Retr-O-Mat version and replace activities in that local copy.

I'm aware that this is not super much information, so please don't hesitate to ask any questions.

When translating activities: If no plan appears it's usually an error in the activities array. The number 1 reason is a missing "," between the properties of an activity entry. Number 2 is an unescaped line break in a description.

Test in very small steps, because these errors are annoying to track down.

You've got another idea? We're all ears! Especially if your idea fits with the overall vision:

• Be useful ** For more people => better
• Be pleasant to use ** Simple interface ** Consistent *** Activities are written in short, straightforward language. For the time being this means that I edit all submitted activities. In the future this could be handled by a committee at one point. ** Pretty