[9fans] Re: Questions about translating Plan 9 license

[Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>]

Man, you've got a busted mailer...I'm 9fans now...ain't that special ;)

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Andrey S. Kukhar wrote:

> As for me, i interests in translations into russian.

And that's it? Hmmm, I'm not as interested as I was.

> There are many russian translations Open Source material in the NET

That's interesting, can't say I've found scads of it. Mind providing some
pointers? Feel free to send them off-list as this probably isn't Plan 9
focused.

>, but Plan 9 translations are don`t avialable. And i want to advance them.

Ah, I'm interested in advancing Open/Free IP approaches, no interest in
OS/License wars at all. My goal is to attract a small cadre os folks with
poly-linguistic skills and get them to work on something longer term. For
example, when one set of dox (eg Plan 9) is completed they'd move on to
another set of dox (eg unununium). I'm looking for 'openness of
communication' as equivalent to 'openness of technology' ala Open Source.
It would be a great chance to work on Open Source language translation.

> I just translated "Installing the Plan 9 distribution" (with "Installation
> instructions") and i have found translation "Plan 9 from Bell Labs". All
> other documents (short and long) are now avialable for translating.

If you would like to use Open Forge as an archive it is available.

But there is no process to manage 'what' and 'when'. This is entirely too
unmanaged to be successfull in a reasonable time frame. If you come up
with some sort of plan to organize this process let me know. I'll
reconsider helping. But if it's left up to a ad hoc conglomeration of
Russki/Angliski Plan 9 users then it will fail and the dox will never be
translated in full. That's a pity, and I'm willing to do something about
it, but I'm not willing to take on the whole thing. Can't save the world
so to speak.

Zhyladyu udahchi, da Svidanya.


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