Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook 143
First time accepted submitter buxy writes "Roland Mas and me [Raphael Hertzog] are the authors of a French Debian bestseller. We want to translate this book into English and publish it under a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That would be the first free and up-to-date book about Debian that can be integrated into Debian. But we need your support to make this happen. Pledge some money [toward the translation effort] and get a copy of the book once it's done! As a special bonus, you can alternatively support the project and have about 12% of the donated money given back to the Debian project."
Security... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why the big bag-o-cash needed? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not really understanding why it's going to take 15,000 euro.
2-hour lunch breaks, 15 min smoke breaks, 5 week vacations, and 35 hours work week. It all adds up.
Plus the original work was in German. I don't understand why they would first translate it in French, and then translate the French version into English. That part makes no sense to me.
"It was even the most sold book on Amazon.fr for an entire morning." [emphasis mine]
Plus it sounds like they hired a sleazy American marketing expert. Those guys are not cheap. That's probably already 10,000 euros down the drain from the get go on the Marketing guy alone.
Ob (Score:0, Funny)
# apt-get install surrender
requires: cheese
requires: monkeys
Re:they've got it backwards: liberate then transla (Score:0, Funny)
I used to go to school with you and let me just say that if De Gaulle could hear you impersonating the "French" language he'd walk out of his grave and vomit. Get some qualifications, until then leave real french to the 15k pros. Not only did you fail basic grammar, you failed basic social skills IMO.
Re:Why the big bag-o-cash needed? (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, but that's another pair of sleeves.
Re:I'd Be Glad to Plege... (Score:5, Funny)