[FM Discuss] Translations

[adam]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



On 05/25/2011 02:36 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
>> The idea is
>> to get people to build the languages - search for people to contrib, run
>> book sprints, do admin etc.
> 
> Right, in the case of the Sourcefabric manuals we are also hiring
> translators because getting the manuals translated into Russian and
> Spanish is a high priority. But other manuals - say Audacity, or
> bypassing censorship - are also really useful to the Sourcefabric target
> audience in those countries. So I don't think the volunteer portal
> managers will translate one manual and leave it at that.


ok


> 
>> It would be nice to get a group together to work
>> this out in a 1 day sprint.
> 
> I'm unlikely to be able to attend that, but I can certainly make you
> some graphics here.

ok. we are are having a meet up in sept in berlin - i dont know if u
want to consider coming to that :)

> 
>> I
>> guess a good working process is to send some screenshots of what you
>> imagine and I can see if i can work out how to do it...
> 
> I was more thinking of creating the whole header using CSS to replace
> the image map, and then if you like it, you can drop it straight in. If
> you don't like the implementation, I can adjust it until you do :-)

sounds excellent. send it through and i will try it out

> 
>> this is all very helpful and also very encouraging to see
>> such +ve energy going towards this.
> 
> Without being too dramatic, in some countries having the right technical
> information (e.g. on privacy and security) can be a matter of life and
> death for journalists and their readers. So we're really very serious
> about seeing this through.
> 
>> its also good to get this
>> conversation going here too and see if others have ideas...
> 
> Yep, bring it on :-)

:)

thanks also for the call out to sf people

adam

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel

- -- 


- --
Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
Project Manager Booki
Book Sprint Facilitator
+49 01774935122


Please note: I am not usually online on weekends unless facilitating a
Book Sprint
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN3PhlAAoJENaIz+he8+X+RIgIAJ04/miCmxx1MrX0E1zgyNZ1
Z3TclhUFc5/qTFDAeWDwGGXM3gfHwOMwOUas/KSR6wP6yOuiURc+TJiK84Symlsj
pgvCskRb6QM15R4WXNfsVxHIWbh3OOYvZm8UVJ+PqmGON++m7GKJl/G/iPfX1mbW
x8Rya0Hi+dHutiuCiM5XF5IHvTg+ae75TlCQG07yUy4B2xgLJYNZvdB183lXQp7x
nmNC1L4a8CcYbAaPxTT6P0DlZFLx4GmXgUhWLhF6wCsXix6wnlfBrD+rin58MXtt
FubFnC375p4gsIZaHtSva/J7oPqvFspyfhrMgCCj/v3CdC0KAe1eEkizcRk2ZSY=
=pv32
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----