[FM Discuss] Forking an official manual for translation in FM?

[adam]

On 16/04/12 12:03, Mick Fuzz wrote:
>
>>
>> English FM probably doesn't have a GIMP manual since the official one
>> is available. And GIMP is so complicated that it would take an
>> eternity to do a new manual in Finnish.
>>
>> What do you think about this? I don't know if you would ever think
>> about something like this in English FM.
>>
>> I have to ask the GIMP documentation people about this.
>
> I think that this is kind of the same situation with Audacity.
>
> For me, maybe it makes sense to work with the maintainers of these kinds
> of complete manuals to make an edited version of the manual. Something
> that can be printed as a book and which contains self contained chapters
> that can be used as hand outs by educators, and activities which can be
> worked through in a step by step way to reinforce learning.
>
> In this this way the FM community becomes editors, educators and
> translators rather than writers for these software project where there
> is already a 'complete' manual available.


yeah, two general rules i rekin:
1. there is no such thing as too much documentation in the free software 
world so there is no need to ask permission but it is always good manners ;)
2. we are here to make free manuals about free software, not to build 
the fm empire so we should help where we see a need (ie. workbooks seem 
to be a good way we can compliment their efforts)


adam

>
> maybe?
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