[FM Discuss] translation

[ale rimoldi]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:49:09 +0100
Mick - FLOSS Manuals <mick at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> On 25/10/12 10:41, ale rimoldi wrote:
> > hi
> >
> >> I would like to translate the French manual Scribus to English.
> >> I've actually started this, but wanted to transfer it to
> >> flossmanuals.
> > since this list is mostly used for status messages on the
> > flossmanuals servers, i forgot to announce it in here...
> >
> > the french scribus manual is being translated into italian.
> >
> > most of the work has been done in a sprint over the last weekend
> > and it now needs some polishing.
> > i plan to have something ready to be published before the end of
> > november.
> >
> > the question about how to publish the final result is still open.
> Ale - In terms of web  publishing, I know that one of the things that
> is planned (or was at least) was the ability to publish a 'splash'
> page for books from Book Type.
> Something like this one http://openweb.flossmanuals.net
> 
> I took that idea to create a similar thing for a recent booklet which
> is here https://techtoolsforactivism.org/booklet

i'm also thinking about publishing it on another site. having only one
book in italian is not that attractive...

as soon as there are a few of them, it will be worth the effort to
create a italian flossmanuals website.


> Also - sould you also be up for doing a 'news' item for the
> flossmanuals.org website? It would be great to have the good news
> about that Italian Scribus sprint there. Did you get any photos?

i will publish a "press release" soon, and yes: i have photos.

> As such I would be really interested to get ideas on what you guys
> think the FM community most needs and I would like to put time into
> that. I'm going to look into flossmanuals.org - but also this email
> list is a great resource. So please do feel free to share your plans
> and ideas for the future here.

next stop: translating "introduction à gimp" into german
http://www.rotefabrik.ch/de/dock18/kursdetail.php?id=96

november 4th @ dock18 in zurich

participants both on place and distant are welcome.

ciao
a.l.e