[mapserver-dev] Motion: managing UMN MapServer handbook files (german language) in the mapserver-svn

[Astrid Emde (WhereGroup)]

Hello Paul,

Paul Ramsey schrieb:
> how about docs/de/handbuch ?
>   
yes - this would be a good name for us.
> On a related note, how much translation has happened in the Mapserver
> documentation/website arena?
>   
We published a german side http://umn-mapserver.de/ but as you can see - 
it is quite out of date and better should link to the mapserver.org 
page. I asked already about setting up a translation of the 
mapserver-page  in german but we didn't work on it while the side was at 
plone.

It would be the best to integrate the german sides in 
htp://mapserver.org. Jeff wrote that the side is automatically generated 
from the svn. So as we need svn right anyway, we could work on the 
german translation of the mapserver.org pages too.


> There's obviously potential both for the current english docs to be
> german'ed and for the german handbook to be english'ed.
>   
I agree.

The german speaking community is quite big. I guess that we would easily 
find some people who would help to work on the tranlations and keep an 
eye on them.
You just would have to give an instruction who the structure of the 
files in the svn has to be and how the pages have to be formated.

About the svn access:
Could I send you a list of osgeo members and you could give access 
rights to them?

Thanks for your help.

Astrid
> P.
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Astrid Emde (WhereGroup)
> <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com> wrote:
>  
>> Hello mapserver-devs,
>>
>> we are working on a UMN MapServer handbook in german language, which 
>> will
>> be online available in the osgeo.wiki, also as pdf and in a printable
>> version.
>>
>> We want to create mapfiles and offer demo data. It would be good if we
>> could get a place in the mapserver svn where we can manage and work 
>> on the
>> files.
>>
>> Therefore we have the following question:
>> Would it be possible to create a folder maybe under
>>
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/docs/
>>
>> it could be named umn_mapserver_hanbuch
>>
>> and get commit rights for maybe 8 persons?
>>
>> Best regard and greatings from germany
>>
>> Astrid Emde
>>
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