blog/data/2018-03-13-made-with-cc-draft.txt

   1 Title: First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons
   2 Tags: english, docbook, madewithcc
   3 Date: 2018-03-13 13:00
   4
   5 <p>I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
   6 Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
   7 from those around the globe making a living using Creative
   8 Commons.</p>
   9
  10 <p>Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
  11 translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
  12 <a href="https://madewith.cc">Made with Creative Commons from 2017</a>
  13 was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
  14 Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
  15 touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
  16 translate into your mother tongue.</p>
  17
  18 <p>The whole book project started when
  19 <a href="http://gwolf.org/node/4102">Gunnar Wolf announced</a> that he
  20 was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
  21 offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
  22 translating the
  23 <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Free
  24 Culture</a> and
  25 <a href="https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian">The Debian
  26 Administrator's Handbook</a> books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
  27 long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
  28 first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
  29 Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
  30 proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
  31 reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
  32 create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
  33 paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.</p>
  34
  35 <p>The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
  36 downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
  37 The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
  38 using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
  39 is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
  40 PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
  41 create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
  42 create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
  43 manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.</p>
  44
  45 <p>The translation is conducted using
  46 <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/">the
  47 Weblate web based translation system</a>.  Please have a look there
  48 and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
  49 reading. :)</p>
  50
  51 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  52 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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