[geo-discuss] Re: german translation open letter

Wed Aug 30 09:34:15 UTC 2006

Jo Walsh schrieb:
> dear Malte, 
Hi Jo

> thanks very much for this. Nod, Benjamin didn't read his
> email until about an hour ago. He gave me a copy already and i
> reformatted it and added it to the wiki also, but didn't know your
> contact address. 
>
> Thanks so much for doing this. 
Nothing to thank, I just wanna do something which I think is very important.
> There is actually some more PublicGeodata material that would benefit from a German translation that we
> could put through CCGIS' contact network: 
> http://publicgeodata.org/Press_Release_Council_Letter - probably this
> is finalised now.
>
> Perhaps Markus has already talked to you about this. 
No, he didn't. Sorry, but i'm not into that stuff by now and I'm moving 
to another town this days, so I can't go into deep right now.
But I still have some capabilities to do some work for publicgeodata. So 
please let me know what I can do exactly and I'll see what I can do.

> Heh, i feel like
> one of those annoying open source software users who, when you've done
> something for free and out of goodwill, then expects you to do what
> they want in the same way. Sorry about that ;)
>
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No, don't apologize! I'm not a programmer and I think this is the only 
way I can give the open source community something back because I 
benefit a lot from their work. And I think the limited access to geodata 
is one major handicap for research work (like here in germany. we had to 
pay for data when I wrote my diploma). I think your work is very 
important to lower the barriers for scientific work in europe...

Malte

> thanks, in any case, very much for the work you've done.
>
>
> jo
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:44:03PM +0200, malte at geog.fu-berlin.de wrote:
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>> Hi Joe,
>> Markus asked me if I could directly send you the german version of 
>> the open letter. I did send it to Benjamin yesterday evening, but 
>> I got no reply if he got the files.
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>> So here they are as a pdf, rtf and odt.
>>
>> Malte 
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