GDF Hannover

Translation Portal

GDF Hannover provides for years documentations and tutorials to the free geographical information system GRASS GIS. This literature is published under the GNU FDL (GNU Free Document License) and thus it is available to the user community free of charge in electronic formats.

In October 2005 GDF Hannover decided to establish an open Translation Portal for the GRASS 6 Tutorial in consideration to the rising demand for translations of the literature originally provided in German. The portal offers a possibility to the world-wide GIS community to translate the documentation into different languages as an important contribution for the future use and acceptance of GRASS GIS. In this context we would like to thank all translators for their support!

How does the Translation Portal work?

The translation portal is based on "subversion", a version control system, which supports maintenance of the text sources during the translation process. Generally, the portal is divided into two areas:

Translation Area (branches)

The area "Translation" includes defined versions (tags) of the documentations. Here only translational work is done. An english version of the document is provided, which can be then translated by all registered translators step by step into the various languages. Necessary is only the installation of the program "svn" (subversion package). For the exact procedure please contact GDF Hannover.

Current status of the GRASS 6 Tutorial - Translation Portal:

Language	Version 1.1	Version 1.2
Czech	complete	0 %
Finnish		0 %
French		complete
German	complete	complete
Greek		0 %
Italian		0 %
Portuguese [BR]		0 %
Spanish		0 %
Simplified Chinese		complete

Current status of the GRASS-in-a-nutshell - Translation Portal:

Language	Version 1.0
French	100 %
Portuguese [BR]	0 %
Spanish	100 %

You can follow the current development of the translations by subscribing to the mailinglist gdf-translation@gdf-hannover.de.

New Contents Area (trunk)

Within the area "New Contents" the development of new contents and bugfixing of the documentations will be done on basis of the current English version. In this area all registered people may discuss in the mailing list the transfer of new contents into further documentation versions. These results will then be translated within the "Translation Area". This part is coordinated by GDF Hannover.

Template of the GRASS 6 Tutorial - Translation Portal:

Language	Repository
English	view

Template of the GRASS-in-a-nutshell - Translation Portal:

Language	Repository
English	view

How can I participate or support the Translation Portal?

If you have interest to take part in or to financially support the translation work, you may contact GDF Hannover. For the translation work you will receive all necessary information, in order to be able to add your translations independently into the appropriate language repository of the Translation Portal.