Hi Tom, I got your point and feel free to update the Documentation Team as well.
Best Regards, Danishka On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > This is being discussed by the steering committee but i thought the > Documentation Team might be interested too. I think there are political > reasons > making it far better to distribute Documentation in English or American or > something so that's not really something we can usefully discuss. I just > think > it's great to hear of widespread large-scale adoption of LibreOffice. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >----- Forwarded Message ---- > >From: Danishka Navin <[email protected]> > >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> > >Sent: Sun, 26 June, 2011 3:40:20 > >Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Distributing the book "Getting Started > with > >LibreOffice 3.3" > > > >Hi, > > > >I am not going to localize it as Sri Lanka use two languages (Sinhala and > Tamil) > >and we have lack of human resources to manage it. > >Lets try to print the book and distribute. > > > >I did not talk with the documentation team directly. > > > >Best Regards, > >Danishka > > > > > >On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >Hi :) > >>Did you manage to discuss this on the Documentation Mailing List? Right > now > >>they are about to set-up a space for French translators to do translation > work > >>in the very modern looking Alfresco workspace rather than using the more > >>traditional translation tools. So, it's a good time to join the > documentation > >>mailing list. Is the language Togalog? I think that's one language that > >>LibreOffice is missing at the moment & not just in documentation. > >> > >>Regards from > >>Tom :) > >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ > From: Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> > >> > >>To: [email protected] > >>Sent: Sat, 25 June, 2011 15:56:22 > >>Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Distributing the book "Getting Started > with > >>LibreOffice 3.3" > >> > >>Danishka, > >> > >>We are studying your request and you will get an answer by Wednesday. > >>Apologies for the delay. > >> > >>Best, > >>Charles. > >> > >> > >>Le Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:10 +0530, > >>Danishka Navin <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am looking for distributing the book "Getting Started with > >>> LibreOffice 3.3" among local schools > >>> as a LibreOffice promotion activity in Sri Lanka. And its for* free > >>> of charge*. > >>> > >>> At the moment I am thinking about the way I could increase the > >>> knowledge/support about LibreOffice within my community. > >>> > >>> There is a high possibility if the Document Foundation and LibreOffice > >>> Documentation Team allow > >>> us to print this book locally and and redistribute for free of charge > >>> among the schools and relevant places like public libraries. > >>> > >>> As you may know Sri Lanka is a* developing country*. So, the cost of > >>> this book is not affordable to many people. > >>> > >>> What I am planning is to write to the "President's Task Force for the > >>> English and ICT" and relevant organizations like Ministry of > >>> Education, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, and National Institute of > >>> Education, etc by requesting arranging necessary for local printing > >>> and distribution of more this book. > >>> > >>> They could find funds from the local or international sponsors. > >>> > >>> I would like to here a positive response from TDF and documentation > >>> team before I write to above mention organizations. > >>> > >>> I hope we could print and distribute more than 10,000 copies of this > >>> book. > >>> > >>> [1] > >>> > http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/getting-started-with-libreoffice-33/14703788 > >>>8 > >>> > >>> Note: If all parties agreed to this proposal the selected material > >>> will be the latest version of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice" > >>> Because Getting Started with LibreOffice 4.x might be released when I > >>> ended up with solving each issue. > >>> > >>> > >>> I need a written permission before I write the local organizations. > >>> > >>> > >>> Best Regards, > >> > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > >>[email protected] > >>Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >>List archive: > http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ > >>All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >Danishka Navin > >http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com > >http://twitter.com/danishkanavin > >http://identi.ca/danishka > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/ > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka http://www.flickr.com/photos/danishkanavin/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
