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Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture
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23rd September 2012
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Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian docbook version of the 2004 book Free Culture 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 +called +for volunteers 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:

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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 +github.

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If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, +the updated +PDF +and +EPUB +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.

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+ + + Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + + +
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20th September 2012
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Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture
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17th August 2012
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In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian -docbook version of the 2004 book -Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, -to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law -I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an -English book. It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever -expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society. When the -translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy -to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down -to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law. This -summer I -called -for volunteers to help me, and I have been able to secure the -valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.

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Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark. Then more than 50% of -the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also -titles and index entries are also counted). All parts from the -beginning up to and including chapter four is translated. So is -chapters six, seven and the conclusion. I created a graph to show the -progress:

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The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index -entries into the docbook. They were missing with the docbook version -I initially started with. There are still quite a few index entries -missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done. I -currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete -english version of the docbook source.

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There is still need for translators and people with docbook -knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle -with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft -translation and proof reading. And I would like the figures to be -redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them. Any SVG master -around? I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to -me. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the -project files currently available from github.

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If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, -the updated -PDF -and -EPUB -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.

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- - - Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. - - -
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