Hello Kwade, >> My name's Eduardo, I am Portuguese and left Europe to work in Brazil >> where I am currently located. >> >> I currently work as CIO/Coordinator in a healthcare company and also >> with IT Consulting. > > Bem-vindo! Very nice to meet you. >
Obrigado! Nice to meet you too. > Was that article this one? > > http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1954 Yes, it was that one. >> I wanted to ask if there are any plans to translate the Textbook >> project to other languages, if so I would be happy to contribute in >> translating to Portuguese. > > Definitely yes. Oh, that's great! I think it will be of much value to translate it to other languages! > > While the writing of the textbook happens on a wiki, the production > for print and web uses a tool that is optimized for translation > (localization or l10n). > > When we have a freeze on the content, we can make it available for > translation via http://Transifex.net. That is a website for > downloading, submitting, and tracking translation files (.po files) > for content and software projects. The PO file is a standard format > and should work with translation applications. > > It is possible to make the current content available for translation. > My perfection-writer-editor-voice-in-my-head wants to make it better > first, I'm concerned about wasting translators' time. > Does the content change much? If not I think we could start even if there are things to straighten up after... > What do you all think? > > We should talk more, on this list, about how to do l10n for this > textbook. For example, we have language to clean-up to make it easier > to translate. > > If we want to make the current (0.8) version of the textbook available > for translation, we can do that with a few hours work. Anyone > interested in helping? It should be fun. :) > > Cheers - Karsten > -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener > team: Red Hat Community Architecture > uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki > gpg: AD0E0C41 ____________________________________________________________ Send any screenshot to your friends in seconds... Works in all emails, instant messengers, blogs, forums and social networks. TRY IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if2 for FREE _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
