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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:24:12 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Lars Engels <lme@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
Message-ID:  <4793CA0C.6010007@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080119065611.GA48167@kobe.laptop>
References:  <200801111917.m0BJHP8u018954@lurza.secnetix.de> <86y7av5fbt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4788CFF9.30500@bsdforen.de> <20080118162722.GU47164@e.0x20.net> <20080119065611.GA48167@kobe.laptop>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-01-18 17:27, Lars Engels <lme@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask
>>> something that can be answered by telling them to read a certain
>>> chapter in the handbook or one of the 120 HowTos we have written and
>>> collected (I have offered to the doc-mailing list to translate some
>>> to English, but that has been ignored),
>> Why do you need to ask first? Do you think that it would have been
>> rejected if you presented a translated version?
> 
> Fair point.  I think that 120 'article-like' additions to our existing
> article collection stand a pretty good chance of including a *lot* of
> useful material.
> 
> It would be a bit silly to reject an offer like that because it was
> written by 'disconnected' people.
> 
> Dominic, if you get some (or evel all?) of these howtos translated to
> English, I offer my help to get them integrated into our doc tree.

The offer still stands, so thank you. I'll be selective about what I translate
and I'm just at the beginning of my exam session, so you'll need some patience
before I've got anything to show off.


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