- <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 and
-Odd Kleiva 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 and Johannes Larsen
-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>
-I am also very grateful for my family for their patience with me in
-this project.
- </para>
-
- <para>
-— Petter Reinholdtsen, Oslo 2015-09-04
- </para>
-
-</chapter>