[OSGeo-Edu] Free GIS book

[Markus Neteler]

On 10/13/07, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com> wrote:
> >
> > Regarding the subcomitee, I will be pleased to chair it if you consider
> > that I should, but don't forget that we already have a Project Steering
> > Comitee for the spanish book, and I am part of it. If we are going to work
> > together, it would be better to have just one comitee for the book, not
> > two of them. The other two members of the spanish PSC are Jorge Gaspar
> > Sanz and Daniel Orellana. I think Jorge is suscribed to this list, but
> >
> > am afraid Daniel is not. I should talk to them about this, I guess.
>
> we have a mailing list [1] too and we are intended to ask for a Trac
> system [2] when things become hot in terms of svn committers and
> complexity of the structure.
> I still think this is the best method to have a robust infrastructure
> even to track multi-language translations. Anyway we have to think about it.
> Victor, what's your opinion?

Just to remember that the GRASS team has translation infrastructure
and successfully produced multi-language tutorials:

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/translation
Translation Portal

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/literature
-> PDFs, HTML

It is Latex-SVN based.

Markus