blog/data/2012-09-23-free-culture-norsk.txt

   1 Title: Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture
   2 Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
   3 Date: 2012-09-23 09:30
   4
   5 <p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
   6 href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
   7 href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
   8 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
   9 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
  10 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
  11
  12 When I started, I
  13 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
  14 for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
  15 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
  16 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
  17 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
  18 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
  19 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:</p>
  20
  21 <img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
  22
  23 <p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
  24 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
  25 the project files currently available from
  26 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
  27
  28 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
  29 the updated
  30 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
  31 and
  32 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
  33 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
  34 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
  35 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>