From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 06:41:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org 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 4148F16A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 06:41:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2C743D45 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 06:41:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.71.31]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0INX007QHEKXGLG3@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:41:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:41:22 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: To: Kambiz Agahian Message-id: <4344C712.20407@mac.com> Organization: The Courts of Chaos MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <433FE814.2020708@mac.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Farsi (Persian) Translation X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:41:23 -0000 > On 10/3/05, Kambiz Agahian wrote: >>Thank you chuck for replying. >>Due to the very fast growth of using Unix-based operating systems in >>middle-east.It seems imperative to me that the FreeBSD official website >>has got to support Persian(Farsi) language before any other docs due to the >>fact that this may attract first time users and would affect significantly. >>In middle-east Persian(Farsi) language is widely spoken and it is the >>official language of 3 fast-growing countries ,besides many people are able >>to understand it rudimenterily in this region. >>As such,we sringly believe that supporting Pesian(Farsi) language is a >>must for our BSD community and that's why we are here. >>I'e visited recommended pages and >>-No group is working on this language . >>-No server is mirroring any BSD community official stuff in above >>countries. >> Hence, I think that we need your guidelines to start the job as soon as >>possible, we need an starting point (it is much better that we start from >>website). >>Hope to have a FreeBSD in Persian! >>Thank you, The tools used to build the documentation such as the handbook are also used to build much of the website on www.freebsd.org itself. You should install the docproject tools and follow the FDP at least far enough to check out the doc and www trees via CVS or CVSup, and build an article or two yourself from the existing content so that you understand how things work and the basics of SGML/XML markup. While you can in theory start translating any content you want to work on, you really ought to start with the Handbook, specificly the first section on how to install FreeBSD itself. When you have useful content translated and available, you can either submit a PR or post it, or a link to it, here on the mailing list... -- -Chuck