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

[adam]

ask the gimpers and see what they say


adam

On 16/04/12 11:46, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is no up-to-date manual for GIMP in Finnish. GIMP is very popular
> but also hard for newbies to learn. So we have been thinking about doing
> one since the Finnish site was started.
>
> However, the official manual of GIMP (http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/) has
> not been translated into Finnish. So the best way of doing a Finnish
> GIMP manual would be to translate the first and maybe the second part of
> the official manual into Finnish.
>
> Basically it would become a derivative work or a fork of the official
> manual.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Tomi Toivio
> Open Source Coordinator
> http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
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>
>
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