Re: translation to Arab (book)

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

Nicolas, I'm forwarding your request to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list.
Do please subscribe and/or read the archives in hopes of getting replies.

  http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php

Regards,

 - Nadim

--- Nicolas Pettiaux <nicolas dot pettiaux at ael dot be> wrote:
> I have found your coordinates through the web site www.arabeyes.org.
> 
> I am a Belgian Frenchspeaking (and also English speaking) teacher of Physics
> who has been for long involved with free software and free access to culture.
> With the help of an American colleague (Ben Crowell) I am  translating his
> free physics books to French. 
> 
> As I also have many native Arab speaking students, to whom I teach in French,
> I would love that the textbook I use as reference be also available in Arab.
> I told them this and some consider to help with the translation from English
> to Arab, that is a challenge as most of them do not have a good command of 
> English (worse than their command of French since they come from Morocco, 
> Algeria where many people still speak French)  nor of the physics that is
> the subject of the books.
> 
> I am writing to you in order to know if you could help us with this matter,
> and for example with the following points:
> 
> 1/ help setup a proper infrastructure using an adequate wiki to help with
>    the translation from English of from French to Arab, or help with the
>    use of the gettext tools suite (kbabel, gtranslator or the same on
>    windows as well as the rosetta tools that has been set-up by the
>    ubuntulinux people on plone)
> 
> 2/ help to find some native Arab speaking people who would agree to help
>    with the translation or at least the proof reading.
> 
> Much thanks in advance,
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Pettiaux
> Association �lectronique libre pour la promotion des droits de l'Homme dans
> la Soci���t��� de l'information (AEL) - http://www.ael.be



		
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