Thanks Maren for your work! I hope soon can get more help. Sorry the therad about manual become too long and finaly remove atention from me.
The manual is a HTML5, Scribus or...? Whats the TODO list about this? Cheers, Jabier. On Sun, 2017-06-04 at 14:46 +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote: > CR, I have been translating (and fixing contents as I go) 1-2 > chapters > each day for the last 2.5 weeks and am more than halfway through (35 > chapters done, 24 left to do). There wasn't anyone else to be seen > around, after the first week, when one person translated a chapter > (unfortunately they picked the only one that needs to be rewritten > from > scratch, because Inkscape changed), and two people proofread a couple > of > chapters (thank you!!!). Well, and a couple of days ago, someone > seems > to have accidentally wiped all the notes on the book, that were > supposed > to help get people started (or maybe it was a platform bug). > > I'd be glad to see some proofreading and styling/screenshooting > people > get on board, so we can continue seamlessly after I'm through with > translating. > > I'm a bit disappointed about everyone being so engaged and vocal > about > helping/liking the action, and now me working on it alone for > 2 > weeks > already. > But that's normal, I guess - it was the reason why I haven't started > this earlier, and I felt ready to take it on now, no matter what. > > Anyway, I'm going to continue to plow through, then translations will > be > ready before the hackfest. In parallel, I'm going to be plowing > through > my new garden, and to help fix up someone else's house, so I expect > to > not have time for much else. > > I'd be glad if someone could try and reengage people to help with the > manual (preferably people who are able to work independently and know > Inkscape inside out, or who concentrate on something they really do > well, like fixing up language or styling). > > There are more than enough open tasks: > from CSS to cover design, to screenshooting, to consistency checking > and > layouting, to improving on my more or less weird English, to adding > missing content (or perhaps, translating, of course). > > And yet, when we do this, I think it's important to take care to > honor > the underlying 'Keep it simple and as short as possible' concept of > the > book, which would make it possible for young teenagers to use it to > get > started, without much theoretical ballast. > Elisa seems to have invested a *lot* of thought into how she built up > the chapters and when to start teaching which concept. I suspect her > concept stems from experience in teaching live Inkscape courses. > > Maren > > Am 04.06.2017 um 13:32 schrieb C R: > > I'd say let's wait and do a progress report, so we can say that > > we're > > making progress on it, rather than just that we've decided to do > > it. I > > plan on helping this area of the project much more after I handle > > the > > hackfest swag. It would be better to have a more or less complete > > manual before we announce it to the public, unless it's a call for > > help with it. > > > > If it's a call for help with that area of the project, then go > > ahead, though. :) > > > > Thanks for the amazing amount of work you're doing for the project, > > brynn. It's definitely helping drive my own motivation for Inkscape > > project work. :) > > > > -C > > > > On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 12:17 PM, brynn <br...@frii.com> wrote: > > > Hi Friends, > > > As I'm writing up a quick draft to announce the upcoming > > > hackfest, I > > > suddenly wondered if it might be a good idea to write a short > > > item about the > > > recent new work on the new manual? > > > > > > I could do that, after I finish the hackfest article. I'm > > > thinking > > > Maren might be able to get all the details correct, the first > > > time around? > > > Although I don't mean to volunteer her. As I said, I could do it > > > myself, if > > > we decide to do it. > > > > > > I think it would help in community-building, to keep the > > > wider > > > community up to date about these things. What do other manual > > > workers and > > > Docs list subscribers think? > > > > > > All best, > > > brynn > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------- > > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > inkscape-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > inkscape-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
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