[FM Discuss] Finnish collaboration

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:22, Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> What about burning FLOSS Manuals *and* the software on a CD-ROM and
> distribute it in developing countries? Wouldn't this be a nice way to do
> some technology transfer? The "No Bandwidth" version of FLOSS Manuals?
>
> Could some development NGO take this CD-ROM and distribute it in Africa?

sneaker net :) great idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

the virtaal mob are based in SA, maybe they could help out?
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index


>
> Regards
> Tomi
>
> 2009/12/18 Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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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>>
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