I'm in contact with Eyrolles as a JUG leader and can suggest them such a deal. As Pearson france is working with me and Arnaud on another Maven book I don't think they would like to have two, but can also suggest them Cheers, Nicolas
2009/5/20 Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com> > What we're going to do is find a French publisher who is interested in > printing the book. We want to have the same sort of deal we have with > O'Reilly where we forfeit the royalties to get access to experienced > editors. So I'll probably ask around to see if there are any interested > publishers. Sonatype doesn't care about making money off the books we just > want the book to be edited well. So the publisher can take all the proceeds > from the printed book which I think works out for everyone. Editing and post > production costs are very substantial for a book. > > It's great there are going to be volunteers to translate but someone needs > to be responsible for the overall translation. I'll set up the standard > mailing lists like we've done for the Chinese and German translations. Tim > keeps an eye on these and keeps folks informed about new chapters that are > in the works. If you need anything you just have to ask him in English :-) > > > On 18-May-09, at 3:58 AM, Emmanuel Hugonnet wrote: > > Hi, >> I have started the French Translation for the Maven Guide here: >> http://github.com/ehsavoie/maven-guide/tree/master >> Feel free to contact me if you want to help :o) (reading, translating, >> ...). >> >> Emmanuel >> >> PS: I am currently translating the introduction chapter. >> >> ---------- >> Emmanuel Hugonnet >> Tel: +336.25.34.19.46 >> http://www.ehsavoie.com >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/SonatypeNexus > http://twitter.com/SonatypeM2E > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Simplex sigillum veri. (Simplicity is the seal of truth.) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
