[FM Discuss] Finnish collaboration

[Tomi Toivio]

Hello,

We really are getting some collaboration here in Finland.

Next Monday we are going to finish the translation of the Inkscape manual
and publish it. We will send a press release about Santa Claus giving
everybody "free software with a free manual" since the new version of
Inkscape was released recently. Our previous press release in September was
published in at least five different medias.

Then we will start flossifying a Scribus manual written by Riku Leino who is
also in our Inkscape translation sprint and has localized Inkscape into
Finnish.

We are going to have FLOSS Manuals as a training instrument with Tampere
University technical communication and localization department. The
localization students will translate a manual and the technical writing
students will write a manual as a part of their studies. Does anybody here
have experience about this? I mean how does our free-wheelin' wiki style fit
into the classroom setting. There are still a couple of months for
planning... But I was pretty much thinking about just having a powerpoint
presentation, demonstrating the use of the translation interface on the big
screen and then we start working in the same style we are using for the
Inkscape translation sprint. And see what kind of procedures will emerge.

I will also go and talk to Helsinki University computer science students
with people from the Linux.fi wiki and see what happens. This is again a bit
different, since I already gave a short speech about FLOSS Manuals in
OpenMind, but this one should be a longer presentation.

We are going to start working on a new manual with a group of Finnish
developers during the Christmas vacation. They have a new open source web
platform that is a little bit similar to Ruby on Rails, I know they don't
like that comparison since it isn't very accurate, but it is still the
easiest way to describe it quickly. How did the Ruby on Rails manual process
go?

I probably forgot some things but these are the ones that are going to
happen during this winter.

-- 
Best Regards
Tomi Toivio
Open Source Coordinator
http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
tomi at flossmanuals.net
+358445488856
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