[FM Discuss] more feedback please :)

[Tomi Toivio]

Yeah, this is what is usually done in the commercial/closed tech writing
sector in Finland - first Finnish writers write it in English and then it is
translated back into Finnish by somebody else.

An interesting point is that open source documentation is more fun to write
since the information is free and you don't have to be something like an
investigative journalist or a private detective to be a tech writer.

Regards
Tomi

2011/6/13 Daniel James <daniel.james at sourcefabric.org>

> Hi Tomi,
>
> >> Another thing we noticed was that at some stage it will probably be
> >> necessary to write documentation in English here in Finland, since
> >> many open source projects would probably like to do it that way. So
> should we
> >> write it in Finnish FM and then export it to English FM for publication?
> >
> > that is currently possible :) either through importing to the english
> > booki imple entaiton or by grabbing the materials from the fi booki via
> > booki publisher interface
>
> I would suggest writing any new manual in English first, then
> translating to Finnish as you go. The reason for this is that you will
> probably find it much easier to get translations from English to popular
> languages like Spanish than from Finnish -> Spanish.
>
> It really depends on whether your target audience is just people in
> Finland, or whether you want to reach as many people as possible. A
> strong international user base will probably increase local demand too,
> just like for the Linux kernel :-)
>
> Also you could get help from non-Finnish speakers on the primary English
> manual, because those specific people would not be able to help with the
> original Finnish text or the translation to English. If English is not
> your first language, those people might help tidy up the English
> version, which is not so big a commitment to ask for, compared to making
> a whole translation.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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Tomi Toivio
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