I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
Commons. This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
from those around the globe making a living using Creative
Commons.
Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
Made with Creative Commons from 2017
was complete. The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work. Get in
touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
translate into your mother tongue.
The whole book project started when
Gunnar Wolf announced that he
was going to make a Spanish edition of the book. I noticed, and
offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
translating the
Free
Culture and
The Debian
Administrator's Handbook books to Norwegian Bokmål. To make a
long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself. The first
proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
reading remains. We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
create a book cover. Once it is done we will publish the book on
paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.
The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
using pandoc. The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators. The translated
PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
create the final PDF. The end result is a set of editions of the
manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.
The translation is conducted using
the
Weblate web based translation system. Please have a look there
and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
reading. :)
As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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