Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook

Posted by Unknown on Friday September 30, 2011 @12:15PM from the books-want-to-be-free-too dept.

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."

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Re:I'd Be Glad to Plege... by AngryDeuce · 2011-09-30 13:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'd love to know who the fuck modded that insightful.
Re:Why the big bag-o-cash needed? by GPLHost-Thomas · 2011-09-30 16:02 · Score: 2, Interesting

2-hour lunch breaks, 15 min smoke breaks, 5 week vacations, and 35 hours work week. It all adds up.
Raphael doesn't smoke, and he is working exclusively on Debian, living only out of donations. I don't know how much time he takes for lunch breaks tough...

Plus the original work was in German.
No, in French. Raphael is a French guy by the way, and I'm not even sure he understand German. From where did you see it was done in German first?

Plus it sounds like they hired a sleazy American marketing expert.
May I know who you are referring to here?