[WNDW] Translations of the book - call for help

[Sylvia Cadena]

Dear Tomas,

I need to know how many words the book have and which was the program 
used to do the lay-out before converting it to PDF.

I've volunteer already to help you out to find support to translate the 
book in French, Spanish and Portuguese. I've will put together a budget 
that will cover the expenses of a full-time translator and a technical 
editor who will be in charge of reviewing that the translations are not 
literal and respects the concepts behind your effort, and also that will 
not edit/modified any of the information you all put together.

I've will draft some kind of basic agreement that all the volunteers 
working towards local versions of the book, will follow, which is 
absolutely critical to keep the book as a single useful resource instead 
of different books at the end.

I've will share the proposal through the list to look for comments and 
suggestions.

It will be great if you can contact the people from 
www.translationsforprogress.org and submit a request. That is something 
that needs to be done by a member of the Book Sprint team.

All the best,

Sylvia




Tomas Krag wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Right from the outset of this book project it has been our intention to
> do what we can to get this book translated to as many local languages as
> possible. Since this book is a volunteer driven effort, there is one
> thing that is certain in this respect: We need as much help as we can get!
> 
> I am taking overall responsibility for the proccess, in other words,
> i'll be trying to make usre that whatever is needed from the side of the
> authors/organisers is readily available. However it is clear to me, that
> in order to be successful, we need to find volunteers to help us with
> the process.
> 
> Basically we (the authors) have very little time, and even less
> experience when it comes to translation efforts, so anyone who thinks
> they can be of assistance please let us know. Volunteers for being
> project leads, translators, fund-raisers, proposal-writers for a
> specific language are welcome.
> 
> There is a wiki-page
> (http://wndw.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Translations) for the purpose of
> organising and tracking translation efforts. There are also wiki pages
> for some of the main languages that we are prioritising in terms of
> translations, and more can be added.
> 
> So anyone interested in helping with translations, please make sure you
> do the following 3 things:
> 
> 1. subscribe to the WNDW mailing list (this list)
> 2. go to the wiki-page Translations and register your interest
> 3. let's figure out how to get this done ;-)
> 
> cheers
> 
> /tomas
> 
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