Hi Jiri, I love the idea, and when English version is complete, I will love to help with the Spanish version. I comment, in the readme you should include some instructions to download and compile the book, for possible contributors to help.
Br, 2017-03-20 12:00 GMT-03:00 Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org>: > Hi, > This seems very useful. > > It might be possible to adapt the translation wiki tool below to use on > Pagure. > > http://translate.keeleleek.ee/wiki/Esileht > https://bitbucket.org/andrjus/minoritytranslate/ > > > > Regards, > Benson > > > On 03/20/2017 01:19 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > Hi, > I've finally found time to push forward the "Getting Started with > Fedora" handbook. > > Just an introduction for those who don't know what it is: > Almost two years ago, we created a Czech handbook for beginners to > start with Fedora. It has ~30 pages and we give it away at conferences, > presentations etc. It's been pretty successful and we decided to > translate it to English, but the project stalled because it didn't have > anyone who'd push it forward. > > The handbook was rewritten to Asciidoc and moved to Pagure: > https://pagure.io/ambassadors/fedora-handbook > > The current status: it's fully translated to English and the content is > synced (we originally started translating the first version and the > Czech origin got updated meanwhile, now the content is the same again) > and the English version should be the origin from now on. Translations > of the chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 have been proofread and should be fine > language-wise (kudos to Brian Excelbierd?). > > What needs to be done: > 1. The chapter 4 still needs proofreading by a native speaker. > > 2. English screenshots need to be taken and added. > > 3. We should go through the content and see if there is anything > missing within the intended scope*. I hope it's where marketing people > can help. You can read the source files, but if you'd like to read the > handbook in a formatted form, you can > download:https://pagure.io/ambassadors/fedora-handbook/blob/master/f/en-US/handb > ook.html > > 4. We need to refresh the cover and make it easily translatable. I've > already filed a ticket about it in the design team track: > https://pagure.io/design/issue/508 > > 5. Generate a final print PDF. There is no direct converter from > asciidoc to LaTex we've used for typesetting, but you can convert it to > Docbook and Docbook to LaTex. The same guy who prepared the print PDF > for the first Czech release is willing to prepare the English version > as well. > > 6. Printing - I can handle this for EMEA. The printing-works gave us a > really good price for good quality - ~$.50 for one print. > > I'd like to get the English version out before Flock. Once it's ready, > we'll make a release branch. Another release will be worked on in > master and the release branch will accept fixes and translations. > > I hope to see translations to other languages, especially the widely > used ones - Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi,... > Translations will simply get another subdirectories and translators > will translate whole files. We decided not go with gettext and > translations systems such as Zanata because first we have no experience > with them and second translating whole documents per strings or > paragraphs produces suboptimal results. Moreover the content of the > handbook should not change so much. > Every translation will have to find someone who will prepare the final > print PDF because that's something you can't really automate and the > volunteer we have now is willing to do only the Czech and English > versions because he doesn't know typesetting rules for other languages. > > The handbook doesn't require frequent updates because the content is > pretty general and doesn't refer to particular releases. The first > version was released two years ago and the content is still pretty much > OK. We'd like to make one release a year, but if some translations are > a bit behind or decide to skip one year it should not be a major > problem. > > Anyone willing to help with any of the todos? ;) > > Jiri > > *I'd like to keep the scope the same: the handbook should get the user > from visiting our booth or presentation at an event through downloading > Fedora, installing it to getting familiar with the system. It should > explain them what makes Fedora interesting and why it's worth a try. It > should not be a comprehensive guide to Fedora, it should rather link to > other sources in the end. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Marketing mailing list -- marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to marketing-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Marketing mailing list -- marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to marketing-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > -- Eduard Lucena Móvil: +56962318010 <+56%209%206231%208010> GNU/Linux User #589060 Ubuntu User #8749 Fedora Ambassador Latam
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