[open-data-manual] Pirate Party Luxembourg's derivative open data manual - Raises Q about cultural specifics

[Rufus Pollock]

2011/7/26 Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>:
> FYI https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-JV12msm-6DDDYlfYS-ac_JHCy-dJQ--yAOlJIdWe3E/edit?hl=en_US

What has this been based off? I would suggest contacting them if they
are not aware of the more update version and the new approach using
text files.

> From the first page, it looks very clear that the idea of the work is
> to make something specific for the German-speaking world. Sven uses
> the world "fehlen", which tends to imply that we're not being
> culturally specific enough.

You saw Daniel Dietrich's mail last week about a German translation
under way of the ODM right?

<http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-data-manual/2011-July/000051.html>

> "Die Struktur, genau wie die Idee zum Buch sind entstanden aus
> http://opendatamanual.org/ und der Erkenntnis, dass ein solches
> Projekt bisher im deutschen Raum fehlt. Ziel ist nicht eine 1-zu-1
> Übersetzung zu produzieren, sondern ein eigenständiges Werk, das als
> Grundlage das open data manual nutzt, jedoch deutlich darüber hinaus
> geht."
>
> Does anyone know ways in which the manual could be more localised?

Rather than discuss this general question I propose we just sort out
as soon as possible our specific process for doing i18n / localization
and document it on wiki.okfn.org/Open_Data_Manual.