Re: [us-marketing] Re: is LO 4.0.0.2 ready for events like SCALE?

On 02/03/2013 08:40 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Bonjour Fabian,
>
> Le 2013-01-31 08:44, Fabian Rodriguez a écrit :
> > On 13-01-31 07:39 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> > > As I said before, I would love to have the NA-DVD 4.0.0 version ready
> > > for the 4.0.0 official release next week.
> >
> > Excellent, let me know if you need any help. please send a reminder link
> > to your previous work, perhaps others can pitch in too.
> >
> > F.
>
> I thought you had at some point created a FR disc. Do you still have 
> that somewhere? There is also no FR official disk on LibreOfficeBox, 
> would you consider doing this? Would this be too much work or could we 
> get someone else from the FR community to join in and help?
>
> If not for the FR team, perhaps a version for the CA-FR market? We 
> could call ourselves the CA-FR connection, I could see if I could 
> help? :-)
>
> Tim: BTW ... how much time do you devote to making the EN disc? Not 
> the extra time that you spend on the dictionaries, but the actual time 
> to author the disc for a specific version? How much time does it take 
> from start to finish?
>
> Marc

NO
no one had the time to translate the disc to French or Spanish.

If you know of someone who would do that, then it may be easy for me to 
do the install modifications without knowing French or Spanish.  I just 
have to modify the linkswhen the new versions come out.

ANY help is good.  Having someone take on the translation to French 
Canadian would be great.  I can walk someone through the steps of 
changing versions and burning a Windows DVD on a Ubuntu system [via K3b] 
easy enough.

The only "problem" would be is finding the French documentation to 
replace all of the English ones. Also, you will need to replace all of 
the extras from the "English only" versions to the ones that have the 
"French language" option or is in French to begin with.

For anyone out there who might be thinking about helping with the 
translating, look at the online version of the DVD at:
http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.6-installs/install.html
Everything you will find on the DVD media should be shown there, except 
some updates that have not been placed on the .iso files[yet].  It takes 
so long to upload the .iso file and the "effort" to get it onto the 
mirror system, the updates may wait till the next version before you see 
it on the .iso file[s].  I have 3.6.5 on that site and the 3.6.5 .iso 
file is in the "waiting queue" for the next "push" to the mirror system 
which may be waiting for all of the work for the upcoming 4.0.0 release 
to be done.  I am almostready for the 4.0.0install files to create that 
version of the NA-DVD.

For anyone who wants to translate the NA-DVD to any non-English 
language, all you have to do is download the .iso file [for all of the 
CSS and theme files] and go from there.  HTML editor and image editor is 
all you may need.  I can send you the label background templates and any 
other thing I have that might help you do the work.

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For the "time" involved . . . Why do you ask? [chuckle, chuckle]

....

I do some edits of the pages every so often to update the extras or some 
other thing. Not much time there on a weekly basis.

For the creation of the .iso file to go from 3.6.4 to 3.6.5 or to 4.0.0, 
that is done in the following steps. . .

1] download all of the install files, language packs, and helps packs 
that are listed on the install page.  Depending on the usage of the 
connection to the LO server system, it does not take much time at 
allwith cable broadband.

2] edit the install page to update the version number and links to the 
new install versions.  Most time find/replace in a text editor works fine.

3] edit the "master label" to reflect the new version, or I could just 
make one that does not need changing [3.6 instead of 3.6.5]. Replace the 
new label in the "artwork" page.

4] burn a test DVD and make sure it works on Windows, since it is 
created on a Ubuntu system.

5] if everything looks right, upload the .iso file[s] to a server that 
is the one I have access to.  Then it will be moved to its mirror 
location when the schedule permits it.  The uploading take about 9 to 10 
hours with my slow upload ability.

The actual "total time" to take my 3.6.4 DVD and convert it to the 3.6.5 
version? Well, I got the announcement about 3.6.5 being out at 10 am and 
I had the new version ready before noon. The most time used is the 
download and upload times. I have tried to make the DVD pages simple 
enough to need little time totake it to a new version. There is the time 
that I do other modifications and additions. Downloading the updated 
documentation and editing its page can take time out of my schedule 
every few weeks. Looking for and adding/replacing extra packages to the 
"extras" page takes some time, but not much really out of a monthly basis.

I added Artha tothe "extras" page since that wasthe best offline 
dictionary - word definition dictionary - and thesaurus free package I 
know of for Windows and Linux.  If I find anything that would be good to 
add, there is a little time there.

BUT, on a whole, there is not much time out of a my monthly schedule to 
do the work on the English DVD.  A half hour hear, and hour there.

I do want to go through the entire DVD, one day, and do a major update 
to the design.  New screen clips and text for the different 
sections/pages of the DVD could be done.  Maybe adding some step-by-step 
directions on installing LOas part of the DVD instead of asking the user 
to do to the on-DVD PDF documentation provided by our doc team members.  
Big things like that are not easy and could take a lot of time. Simple 
things like going from 3.6.5 to 4.0.0 does not.  All I need it the 4.0.0 
install filesand it could be done that same day I download the files.



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