Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
I think there are already a number of documents translated from the
French, not from Authors, but from OOo, but I may be wrong.
There is no need to first translate to English and then to translate
to other languages, in the case you mention, there are a number of
people who can translate directly from Dutch into French (translators,
but also bilingual people from Belgium for ex).
On 16 sept. 06, at 16:41, Jo wrote:
Hi,
On OOocon2006 the Dutch speaking people got together and there is
course material from the city of Utrecht that they would want to set
free if we ask them. The person who can ask them only wants to do so
if we effectively do something with this material. To me the best
option would be to post it as source material on the Dutch part of
OOoAuthors, so at least it doesn't get lost. Then it can be
translated into English and from there it can be translated further
to all other languages. What do you think about this? It's course
material and not documentation. So it wouldn't mean that we are
creating parallel material to what is already available.
Maybe to make a decision on this, you need some kind of sample. I'm
not sure if we can ask a chapter at random, that I would subsequently
translate into English. First I would like to know if in principle we
should bother to ask about it.
Jo
Jean-Christophe Helary
Dan, Jean-Christophe,
I agree fully with what you say. It's better to always have the
translations from the source language if that is possible. The question
was if it was allowed to add source material to the other language
sections than English. I take it that the answer is positive, so I'll
ask Simon to ask for the material and have it uploaded. If the city of
Utrecht wants to free it up, then it would be a waste not to use it.
Jo
