discuss: Re: translating howto's and doc's into german
Subject:
Re: Fwd: translating howto's and doc's into german
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
22 Nov 2004 22:01:01 -0000
Message-Id: <20041122220049.GA1106@davespc>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:35:27PM +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> xaero,
>
> We usually discuss things like this on The LDP mailing lists.
>
> Giridhar
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: xaero ####@####.####
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:19:40 +0100
> Subject: translating howto's and doc's into german
> To: ####@####.####
>
> Hello,
> I hope that I'm right "here".
>
> In the last few months I worked more and more with Linux and installed
> Gentoo the first time. Therefor I read many howto's and also a few
> from TLDP (others from gentoo.org and linuxforen.de etc.), hence I'm
> from germany I prefer my mother tongue when I'm reading things that
> are hard enough to understand without the difficulty of tranlating. I
> know that there are only a few german howto's and many of them are
> out-dated, so I would like to help you/the project in this matter. And
> I actually don't see a problem with my understanding of english, the
> problem is in fact that I'm relative new to the real Linux(my first
> Linux was SuSe 8.1, but you can't learn very much from it [so I mean
> Gentoo with real]). Therefor I can't rewrite the howto's for a new
> version of a program etc. (at least not yet), but I could at least
> simply translate the newest english howto's.
>
> I'm also aware that there is another german translator, but it seems
> that he hasn't worked on the project for a while. Due to this I wrote
> "I hope that I'm right "here".", because I havn't found a contact for
> the translators and I didn't want to send a mail to someone who
> probably doesn't work for TLDP anymore.
If you click on "Translation Effort" on TLDP's homepage you'll find
someone who deals with translations into German. You should at least
try to contact him (same person as you mention above ?). If he isn't
handling this anymore, it should be noted on the LDP website.
David Lawyer
