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After a long time I am pleased to announce a new FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project update. René Ladan has been working very hard on finishing his translation and updating the handbook, while I am struggling with the PPP and Slip chapter. It’s at 62% currently and is the last chapter to be finished before we have an entire translation available. Once that’s in play, René and I can hopefully keep the situation under control and see for further translations that we can do. We have a range of articles that we are interested in into translating, as well as the webpages which have some initial work from Siebrand Mazeland.

Personally I am looking into the Checkpoint article so that it it is up to date again (I am working with the materials quite often) and I am willing to see how we can add a Juniper article (or merge the two) so that we have some big players into the documentation base again.

Ofcourse I have several PR’s still open to improve the PPP and SLIP chapter, mostly with regard to the console setup and things like that. While translating I found several areas that need improvement (it’s a mess wrt. style, but that’s a different topic)

I hope that the next message will be that I finished the translation of the final chapter so that I can help René with translating the updates that still need work. Some chapters are really hard to improve after they had major improvements

Thanks René!

written by Remko \\ tags: docnl, Documentation, FreeBSD, FreeBSD Documentation

So, I picked up a lot of changes through Gabor Pali (pgj@) for the FAQ, and decided that I could easily start the initial translation. Most of the content so far is very readable and translatable (which isn’t always the case for the regular handbook, see for example the MAC chapter and the Audit ones, which I am trying to finish for the Dutch Project as well), and probably I’ll have a look at the jails chapter soon as well. Beyond that Rene is helping a lot with translations, which gives me a good feeling about being able to finalize the entire handbook at some point.

Back to the FAQ, I started the translation, and I progress not that fast, but fast enough to find it nice to do. I am now sitting in the sun translating the stuff, which is awesome if one can do this :-).

More updates will ofcourse follow..

written by Remko \\ tags: docnl, Documentation, FAQ, FreeBSD

Rene Ladan just finished the last part of the mail chapter. It’s ready for Reviewal. Rink Springer offered to have a look where possible in the near future, so with a bit of luck we can add the chapter to the official FreeBSD build soon. Thanks Rene for doing such a great job all the time (Where others did much and left, you are still here!).

Ofcourse, I am trying to keep the documentation as up to date as possible, which goes by flows. If you have more time then me and think you can contribute, please contact me, we can really use the help to get a full blown handbook translation, and possibly even translated webpages at some point.

I am doing all the work in perforce, which is publically reachable through:

http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/projects/docproj_nl/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/&c=449@//depot/projects/docproj_nl/nl_NL.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/?ac=83

Cheers to Rene!

written by Remko \\ tags: Documentatie, Documentation, Email, Mail