X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/3cbf97b2b8364d227c81c16616671ddd7164d272..a8c54f7f6ca59a1205fd9460a87b8ae0ecd8421e:/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss b/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss index 719a2a2821..da9a31f173 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/09/09.rss @@ -6,6 +6,45 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html + Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200 + <p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a +href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a +href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig. +The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist +in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for +those that are reluctant do read an English book. + +When I started, I +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called +for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far, +and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent +mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700 +strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With +my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to +complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:</p> + +<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"> + +<p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work +commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out +the project files currently available from +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p> + +<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, +the updated +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a> +and +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a> +are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but +github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I +saw no point in linking to that version.</p> + + + Vitenskaplig metode i politikken? http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html