Re: [us-marketing] Re: English version of German DVD site [heavily modified] will soon be online

On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 08:23 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 07:16 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> > Le 2011-02-18 14:59, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit :
> > > Sometime late this evening, or Saturday morning, the files and folders
> > > for my DVD will be online at the following URL.
> > > http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/index.html
> > >  
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I decided to place it online like the German LibreOfficebox.org site has
> > > their developmental version of the German Language European version.
> > >
> > > Due to the problems I have been facing with my hosting servers, it will
> > > be some time before I will be able to place 1, 2, or 3 gig size files
> > > [iso or zip] there. For now, I am taking my queue from the German site
> > > and giving the LibreOffice community the ability to look at this English
> > > language DVD and comment about it.
> > >
> > > Remember, this is a modified English language translation of the German
> > > site. Some of the parts are mostly a English translation of the German
> > > one, while others are heavily edited. I have opted not to include a
> > > Development section to this disc, since the files online will be more
> > > up-to-date than what will be on the DVD. In exchange for its place on
> > > the main navigation bar, I have a Documentation page. This will allow
> > > for ease access to all of the available [known to me] .odt and .pdf
> > > documentation files. This is something that the average user may need
> > > and want to have easy access to.
> > >
> > > To be honest, I started this DVD for my own reasons and use. Now it as
> > > "snowballed" into something more towards what an average LibreOffice
> > > user might like to see with a media distribution of the office package
> > > and all the useful extras that can be placed on the remaining space of
> > > the DVD. I do hope I do the "spirit" of this project justice. I will be
> > > working on this project on-and-off over the next few weeks, as I have
> > > time and my physical disabilities/impairments will allow. With the help
> > > of other on the US Marketing team, hopefully it will be done quickly and
> > > be ready for a DVD iso file so those in the US, Canada, and Mexico will
> > > have a version to download and burn to their own DVDs and
> > > people/groups/organizations will have one to sell for those who do not
> > > have time or bandwidth to download a 3-4 gig ISO file.
> > >
> > > T. Lungstrom
> > > Elmira NY, USA
> >
> > Great work! Thanks for doing this. I am forwarding this to Fabian who 
> > was also doing his own version of a DVD. Perhaps he would be 
> > interested in it too. Maybe he could help out with the ES content. (A 
> > hello to Fabian :-))
> >
> > I can help out with the FR content.
> >
> > How full is the disk so far?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Marc
> It is no way finished and it needs a lot of "under the hood" work to get 
> all of the parts of the HTML pages and their links to be what they need 
> to be.
>
> Yes, if it is to be North American, we need French [Canada] and Spanish 
> [Mexico] content for the web pages and for the documentation, templates, 
> extensions, etc., etc..  Drew is working on some stuff that may give me 
> some non-English content, but I feel we will need as much help as 
> possible to expand it from English to a 3 language media distribution 
> disc.  Maybe something like Wiki pages with their small navigation bar 
> to switch between the 3 languages.  I really do not know what it will be 
> like, since I never learned and other languages, except computer ones, 
> from my native American English.  With my "damaged brain" I sometimes 
> have trouble with English.  So yes I/we will be needing help with the 
> other two languages.
>
> The non-English content: nothing.
>
> The English content:
>
> 1] need to work on the DVD/index page to make it more towards what this 
> DVD will be like.
>
> 2] The "extensions", "templates", and "artwork" pages need a lot of 
> work.  The last to are very "raw" and not reflecting what in the folders 
> of this DVD project.
>
> 3]  The "extras" or other open source programs page is in need of making 
> all the links the English web sites and other stuff that is needed 
> changed from a German page to an English one.
>
> The DVD is rough, rougher than the German one.  But it will get where it 
> should be for the English content in the next week or two.  I just 
> started the work this past week.  Not ever a whole week either.  Plus 
> with my on-and-off work schedule, I think that I have done only 8 to 10 
> actual hours of work on this conversion.  If I was able to work 8 hours 
> a day, I would be done in a few more days.  But I cannot so it will take 
> much longer.  It will get done, and you can see what it will look like.  
> I have it online so people can see the pages and test them to see what 
> is working and what needs to be done.  The DVD and the web pages work 
> similar.  One is online and the other "acts" the same but it works off 
> your DVD reader.
>
> I could use French and English versions of the documentation, the 
> templates [in the folders], the extensions [folders as well], and 
> anything else that is not the actual HTML pages.  Then after I have that 
> content, then I can use the French and Spanish versions of the HTML 
> pages.  I can run Google's translation service for the HTML, if needed, 
> just like I did to read the German pages.  The content linked to the 
> pages cannot be translated that way, as far as I know.
>
> So, any help with the content, testing the pages, etc., etc., will be 
> most welcome.

Howdy,

Alright - well here is where I'm at this moment.

I have the 3.3.0-2 LbreOfficeBox imsage, with additions, with all of the
html files from Tim's work, as on the website above, working on my local
copy. 

I have these files and all of the box original files under local version
control.

There are a number of errors on the pages on the above website, mostly
from the automatic translation error - I've been running find/replace
scritps to clean that up - looks good so far. So - I have a new set of
files, as actual source files, which I can send back to Tim.

The couple of changes from tdf logo to community logo will be done
today, and will go back to Tim with the html files.

@Tim - if you haven't made changes to your copy at this point, would you
hold off for most of today and I'll get these updates to you this
evening, a simple copy to the web server and I think at that point you
and I would have the images in sync.

//drew




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