I am interested in what ever is necessary. I can work on smaller sections due to time constraints. As time allows, I may pick up a larger section. I am USA English only. I can edit for clarity, grammar, spelling, et al.
Thanks Jeff Flaker On 10/09/2014 11:21 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: > To all, > Where do we go from here? > Finishing the last version of our manual, 14.04 LTS, was a real > struggle. There were hardly any contributors to do the job. As you may > have noticed, we did not start Utopic because we did not get enough > new active contributors in time. > We would like to start a discussion on what to do next. > > Is the manual useful to Ubuntu users? > Below you find statistics on the number of printed purchases and > downloads of our manual. > > How many active members do we have? > @ all, please let us know via this list if you are still interested in > contributing as an author, editor, translator, screenshot editor or > coordinator. After receiving your reactions, we can make up a list of > all remaining ACTIVE members. We would also appreciate it if those of > you who do not wish to continue contributing let us know of this > decision. > > Standard versions or only LTS versions? > We could opt for the publication of LTS versions (every 2 years) only. > This means less work for a small team like ours, but it implies the > risk of contributors losing interest. > @all: please let us know if, as an active contributor, you would > prefer to contribute to all versions or only LTS versions. > > How can you contribute? > By dividing the work in chapters and sections, contributors > (authors/editors) can decide what chapter they want to work on. Some > sections are very small, others are lengthy. If you want to > contribute, but do not have much time, you can just choose a small > section. > We also need author/editor coordinators. This will require more time. > Let us know if you are interested. > > Current situation > It is too late to start working on the Utopic version. In order to be > able to decide what to do next, we urge all of you to respond to this > email As Soon As Possible, but before October 17th. > > Thanks, > Hannie > > ================= > > Here are some statistics. > > The number of printed book purchases since the beginning of 2014 (only > showing the 13.04, 13.10, and 14.04 editions): > > Erste Schritte mit Ubuntu 13.04 - 741 > Getting Started with Ubuntu 13.04 - 63 > Getting Started with Ubuntu 13.10 - 212 > Getting Started with Ubuntu 14.04 - 56 > Premiers pas avec Ubuntu 13.04 - 29 > Premiers pas avec Ubuntu 13.10 - 120 > Primeros pasos con Ubuntu 13.10 - 10 > > Here are the totals for the downloads (since the beginning of time): > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 > - English: 194,721 > - German: 47,899 > - Greek: 40,111 > - Dutch: 19,657 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04e2 > - English: 91,472 > - German: 19,712 > - Lithuanian: 6,397 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.10 > - English: 73,569 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 11.10 > - English: 25,378 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 > - English: 72,840 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04e2 > - English: 44,465 > - German: 33,481 > - Spanish: 28,668 > - French: 6,778 > - Dutch: 14,688 > - Slovenian: 449 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.10 > - English: 19,5683 > - French: 32,050 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 13.04 > - English: 51,245 > - German: 26,676 > - French: 16,632 > - Slovenian: 1,941 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 13.10 > - English: 76,883 > - Spanish: 17,503 > - French: 48,170 > > Getting Started with Ubuntu 14.04 > - English: 13,021 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
