Re: Progeny GPLs manual
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 11:32:54AM -0300, hzi@uol.com.br wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:10:19PM -0800, Bruce Byfield wrote:
> > Chris Tillman wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >There's a lot of good information here, mostly directly applicable to
> > >Debian. Even screen shots! The quality seems very good.
> > >
> > >I think there's a large hole in the Debian documentation bin labelled
> > >Beginner/Novice. This would fill that hole nicely.
> > >
> > >I'm willing to work on it, if others also think there's a place here for
> > >it.
> > >
> > Great!
> >
> > The project is still in its early stages, so not much that's concrete is
> > likely to happen for the next couple of weeks. But here's what is going on:
> >
> > - I'm looking for volunteers. I'm going to go through Techwr-l, the
> > technical writer's mailing list, and the Debian Doc list.
> > - A CVS tree will have to be set up. Progeny may host it; I'm not sure yet.
> > - A mailing list is also needed. Again, Progeny may host it.
> > - A non-proprietary format needs to be decided on. Once a few more
> > people are involved, we can discuss that in more detail.
> > - Once the format is decided, we need to convert the existing files to it.
> > - The first stage in writing will be to replace the existing references
> > to Progeny-specific tools with general Debian information.
> >
> > I'll be in touch as things get organized. Meanwhile, thanks for
> > volunteering!
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield@axionet.com
> >
> Bruce-
> I'm interested in translating it to Portuguese, it is released under the GPL.
> Any chance of us having access to the source?
>
> Regs
> Henry
The source is in framemaker format right now, one of the first things
planned is to convert it to an open-source compatible source format.
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