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<div>I am starting here in Finland as an Open Source coordinator for the Medios project. The goal is to translate the FLOSS Manuals into Finnish, as well as to create a network of users through advocacy and training. </div>
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<div>FLOSS Manuals seems to be a great project. I have been thinking that there are a lot of programmers involved in Open Source, but too few technical writers. Maybe this project is the answer? </div>
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<div>I have been working as a technical writer, technical translator, journalist, etc. I have a M.Soc.Sci degree from the University of Helsinki. And so on. </div>
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<div>Localization is the main goal, but I would like to participate in the technical writing process as well. I am also very interested in the use of these technologies for creation of participatory media. </div>
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<div>The training aspect of this project is a bit similar to what I was doing for a development NGO in Kenya last year, though I was spending more time working on more specialized Open Source GIS software. I wrote this Open Source GIS manual (Geoserver, uDig, Postgis etc.) for a participatory GIS project in Kenya, but it is still quite incomplete: <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/d453ceb8-53d6-4c6b-9cd8-d3c83c61c619/Geoserver-Manual">http://www.esnips.com/doc/d453ceb8-53d6-4c6b-9cd8-d3c83c61c619/Geoserver-Manual</a></div>
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<div>Sorry, this manual is for Windows XP although we were running Geoserver on Ubuntu. Does anybody think that a GIS manual like that would be useful if a generic data set is used as an example?</div>
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<div>Best Regards<br>Tomi Toivio<br><br></div>