Hi Andreas, Thanks for the clarification and your all valid inputs!
Unfortunately, I have nobody in mind to propose but I'm confident that some of the readers will get in touch with you. :) Regards, Harrissou 2016-06-01 10:57 GMT+02:00 Neumann, Andreas <[email protected]>: > Hi Harrissou, > > There was this idea that the global project should organize/work > on/finance the central english version of the documentation and that the > local user groups organize the translations. I think this division of > labor/ressources makes sense. In addition, there are the "privileged" > english speaking QGIS users (UK, US, AUS, SA) who don't have to care about > translations of the manual. They can also help in the central english > effort - so to keep ressources aside for the non-english speaking user > groups to organize the translations. > > I happen to be the global QGIS treasurer as well - so I can tell that > financial ressources are available at QGIS.ORG to fund someone to > concentrate on working on the english central manual. You just have to ask. > Otto is the contact to organize this. He also knows about the available > financial ressources. So if you have some ideas or know someone skilled who > wants to work on documentation of the central english version, please > organize with Otto and we can help finance it. Note that the Swiss and > german QGIS user groups are also co-funding QGIS.ORG - so we already > contribute our financial shares to the global project. > > Hope this explains why Thomas and I want to reserve the funds of the > german/Swiss user group for translation. > > Andreas > > On 2016-05-31 10:22, DelazJ wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks Andreas for the explanation. > > I suppose the work is about the next 2.14 documentation. If i may, why not > finance someone to help us write the doc instead of translation? I wonder > if the need isn't currently there? > We didn't talk about it yet but I suppose it'd be nice to have the LTR doc > released when 2.14 officially becomes LTR (with the 2.16 release in about a > month). > Despite the great work done during the hackfest (2.10 and 2.12 issues > almost closed), we still have around 40 issues [1] to tackle for a FULLY > featured 2.14 doc. So any help, voluntary or paid one, is welcome! > > [1] > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22QGIS+2.14%22 > > Regards, > Harrissou > > ----- Reply message ----- > De : "Richard Duivenvoorde" <[email protected]> > Pour : <[email protected]> > Objet : [Qgis-user]Gesucht: Übersetzer der aktuellenQGIS-Dokumentation > Date : mar., mai 31, 2016 08:18 > > On 31-05-16 08:11, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > Thomas is looking for a person or company doing the translation work. > > This would be financed through the membership fees of the German and > > Swiss QGIS user groups. It would allow a person to concentrate several > > days/weeks on the translation work. > > > > In the past, Larissa, did the translation work of the german QGIS manual > > and we compensated her work. For transparency reasons we want to open it > > up to other interested persons or companies. > > > > Of course, voluntary contributions are also very much welcome, but the > > QGIS user group membership fees need to be spent somehow - and we > > thought that documentation would be one area that would benefit from our > > financial support. Most of the user group members are busy with their > > day jobs and don't have time - but can contribute financially. > > > > On another question: are you now targetting the 2.16 version for > > documentation? I thought that the manual would be done for the LT > > releases? Did you recently decide to make the documentation for 2.16 > > instead? > > Ah, sorry I misunderstood: > > - sämtliche Beschreibungen von Funktionalitäten, die in den Versionen > 2.10, 2.12 und 2.14 neu hinzu gekommen sind > - (dazugehörige) Abbildungen, basierend auf der deutschsprachigen > Benutzeroberfläche sind nachzubilden (und auzutauschen) > - noch nicht übersetzte Teile der bisherigen deutschsprachigen > Dokumentation 2.8 > > And did a quick read anyway. (Well I also wanted to tell the world our > current plans also, hoping to attract more volunteers :-)...) > > Thanks for QGIS-DE to put some money into this. > > And, sorry: me wrong. 2.14 off course, the LTR, is our target in short time. > > Regards, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > >
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