[FM Discuss] Finnish collaboration

[Lachlan Musicman]

um. you rock. keep up the awesome.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:42, Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 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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