[FM Discuss] Finnish collaboration
Tomi Toivio
tomi at flossmanuals.net
Sat Dec 19 08:36:06 PST 2009
Hey,
This is good!
I gotta forward this to Kenya and see what they think...
Regards
Tomi
2009/12/19 adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> hey
>
> Tactical Technology Collective have done something similar to this, eg:
> http://www.tacticaltech.org/node/377
>
> this includes FM content and comes on a cd.
>
> I dont know how effective strategy has been. If anyone from ttc is on
> the list they could talk to it. However, there is nothing stopping your
> friends from Kenya just doing it - downloading the manuals and
> distributing on cd...
>
> adam
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:22 +0200, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This actually has little to do with *Finnish* FLOSS Manuals, but... I
> > was wondering if anyone ever thought about this one.
> >
> > I have been meeting some Kenyan friends and emailing them. The idea is
> > that FLOSS Manuals would be hugely useful in Eastern Africa, since
> > people are mostly using pirated commercial software. There everybody
> > has a pirate copy of Windows, which has no updates and virus
> > protection, and soon becomes infested with viruses and very slow and
> > unusable.
> >
> > There would therefore be a huge demand for FLOSS software and
> > manuals.
> >
> > It seems like there would not be necessary to translate FLOSS Manuals
> > into Swahili - English would be fine. The larger problem would be that
> > even though computers are available the internet connections are often
> > really slow.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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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