From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Nov 18 18:14:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F9237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from merkury.pol.lublin.pl (merkury.pol.lublin.pl [212.182.59.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A22943E88 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ni@merkury.pol.lublin.pl) Received: (qmail 41289 invoked by uid 9999); 19 Nov 2002 02:14:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:14:12 +0100 From: Lukasz Bojarski To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: encouraging documentation writing (was: Recently added Jakarta Commons ports) Message-ID: <20021119031412.B40789@merkury.pol.lublin.pl> References: <20021118160854.X43606-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <200211181258.40207.linimon@lonesome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200211181258.40207.linimon@lonesome.com>; from linimon@lonesome.com on Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:58:40PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:58:40PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > In a post in freebsd-java, in reply to a post asking for volunteers > to write documentation, Herve Quiroz (herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr) > wrote: > > > English is not my first language so I will not pretend to be able > > to handle such a task. > > Might I suggest a policy to encourage non-native speakers to > write documentation under the tutelage of a native speaker? > IMHO it's much easier to find people to edit documentation than it > is to find people to create documentation in the first place. Yes, I > suppose I would have to be the first to volunteer for such a task :-) In The Polish FreeBSD Documentation Project we are already encouraging people to write the documentation in Polish - that it could be then translated to English by our Translation Team. As far some people offered to write some tutorials - we are waiting for results... I think this will not eliminate the demand mentioned in the Mark's suggestion, because only-Polish writers cannot directly take part in the work of FDP, but could be helpful in finding volunteers to create new documentation, if every translation team encourages people in their counry. Best regards, Lukasz Bojarski Coordinator of the Polish FreeBSD Documentation Project http://tlumaczenie.freebsd.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message