🌐 Contributor Spotlight: f-p-0 — Complete Spanish Documentation Suite

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Every contribution makes SIMUT better. This series highlights the people behind the commits.

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This week: @f-p-0

What they built: The complete Spanish documentation suite — README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, fully translated across two pull requests.

Why it matters: Software documentation is a gate. When it is only available in English, an entire hemisphere of makers, students, and engineers is left reading through a translator — or not reading at all. Spanish is the native language of over 485 million people across more than 20 countries.

Before these translations, a Spanish-speaking contributor landing on SIMUT found 1,400+ lines of English prose between the README, contribution guide, and code of conduct. Every section — from wiring diagrams to flash budget warnings, from Docker setup to the AI usage policy — required mental translation overhead.

Now they land and see this:

[English] | [Português] | [Español]

One click. The entire onboarding surface — project vision, development setup, code conventions, community norms — reads in their native language. The flash budget section warns "El espacio en la memoria flash es críticamente ajustado (~98.7% en uso)". The AI tools policy says "El código generado es tu responsabilidad". Nothing is lost. Nothing is machine-translated filler.

This is what open-source accessibility looks like. Not just translating strings, but transplanting context. Technical terms like boilerplate become código repetitivo (boilerplate), keeping the original where precision matters. The Docker command-equivalence table, the PlatformIO setup, the K&R brace style — all present and idiomatic.

Stats:

• 3 files translated: README.md (337 lines), CONTRIBUTING.md (140 lines), CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md (39 lines)
• 2 pull requests: #66 · #68
• Language selectors updated across all 5 documentation files
• First community member to internationalize the project
• Sets the pattern for future translations: locale suffix convention, selector placement, translation depth

What the maintainer said:

"Your translations are excellent — the Docker section, flash budget guidance, and AI tools policy all read naturally in Spanish. With this, SIMUT is genuinely accessible to the Spanish-speaking world. You did not just translate words — you made the project belong to more people."

Related: PR #66 · PR #68 · Issue #50 · Issue #51

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