- <para>
-Thanks to the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, I already had
-experience translating Docbook documents, and it seemed like a good
-format for this book too. I found a Docbook formatted version of the
-book created by Hans Schou. Initial testing showed lots of Docbook
-validation errors in this version, but after some work I was able to
-transform it to PDF and EPUB. This was the start of the translation
-project. The Docbook file improved over time, and build rules were
-added to create both English and Bokmål versions. Finally, a call for
-volunteers went out to help me with the translation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-Several people joined, and Anders Hagen Jarmund, Kirill Miazine, Odd
-Kleiva, Kjetil Kilhavn og Kjetil T. Homme assisted with the initial
-translation. Ralph Amissah and his SiSu version provided index
-entries. Morten Sickel and Alexander Alemayhu helped with the
-figures, redrawing some of the bitmaps as vector images. Wivi
-Reinholdtsen, Ingrid Yrvin, Johannes Larsen and Gisle Hannemyr did
-very valuable proofreading. Håkon Wium Lie helped me track down a
-good replacement font without usage restrictions instead of the one in
-the original PDF. The PDF typesetting is done using dblatex, which we
-selected over the alternatives thanks to the invaluable and quick help
-from Benoît Guillon and Andreas Hoenen. Thomas Gramstad donated ISBN
-numbers needed for distribution to book stores. Marc Jeanmougin from
-the inkscape community helped me replicate the original front cover.
-The support of Lawrence Lessig helped me to complete the
-project—I am very thankful he had the original screen shots
-still available after 11 years.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-At the end of the book project, when the translation was done and it
-was time to publish the book, I asked NUUG Foundation if they would be
-willing to sponsor books to members of the Norwegian parliament and
-other decision makers. I was very happy when they said yes.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-In addition to these great contributors, I am very grateful to Mari
-and my family for their patience with me in this project.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-— Petter Reinholdtsen, Oslo 2015-09-07
- </para>
-
-</chapter>