Looks like the French translation is already happening here: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/openstreetmap_fr/_edit/
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Jaakko Helleranta.com < [email protected]> wrote: > Can the translation b crowdsourced? > Google translate toolkit allows a number of ppl to work on a given > translation. Is there reason not to use that? > -J > Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel > -- > Mobile: +509-37-26 91 54, Skype/GoogleTalk: jhelleranta > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kate Chapman <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:41:34 > To: Jaakko Helleranta.com<[email protected]> > Cc: Ian Dees<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] The Open Source OpenStreetMap Book > > Hi Jaakko, > > Nope nobody in DC has the books. Ian is going to send me some of them > to spread around, but I have no idea of the timing of that. Also I'm > not in home very much. > > Yes the plan is to translate the book into French. I have no idea of > the timing of that though. > > There is translation of LearnOSM being worked on as well, but I have > no idea how long that is going to take. > > -Kate > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi ya. > > > > I thought of writing to Kate only but then thought to shoot the email to > > both of you. > > > > I was just about to order a stack of these books to DC (where I'm going > to > > visit for Halloween) to bring the books back to Haiti for our new school > > student mappers. > > > > The questions: In case my order doesn't arrive in time, is there someone > in > > DC area with these books in the shelf? And if so should I get the books > from > > that person rather than Lulu to begin with? > > I was thinking of something like 10 or 20 copies. > > > > And #2: Was/is the French version already in the making? There's clear > > interest for that here and it's really only a question of coordination to > > get either this and/or the LearnOSM text translated. > > > > Thanks! > > -Jaakko > > > > -- > > [email protected] * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +509-37-269154 * > > http://go.hel.cc/MyProfile > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> Over the last week, Kate Chapman, Shaun McDonald and I worked together > >> with some professional documentation people to write an open source > >> OpenStreetMap getting started book. > >> Please read my diary post to get an idea of what we > >> did: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iandees/diary/15152 > >> We're looking for feedback and help keeping it up to date. In the > >> medium-term we'd like to expand this book so that it can replace the > Getting > >> Started pages on the wiki and create a second book to cover the more > >> technical use cases (pulling the technical bits out of this current > doc). > >> -Ian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >> > > > > >
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