From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T07:15:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Matz Roundtable Summary (was Re: rubyconf notes)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:29:28AM +0900, Damon wrote:
> 
> Let me clarify what I meant by translating the Japanese books into
> English.  I am proposing a joint effort between Japanese and American
> Ruby programmers.  We will need volunteers from Japan and the US.  A
> Japanese Ruby programmer will be paired up with an American Ruby
> programmer.  The Japanese programmer will take one of the Japanese
> Ruby books, translate each chapter into passable English, and hand off
> the chapter to an American Ruby programmer, who in turn converts the
> chapter into idomatic English.  The advantages to this approach are:
> 
> 1)  The books are already published, so it is much easier to produce a
> English translation than write a new book from scratch.
> 
> 2)  Both the Japanese and English speaker are Ruby programmers, so
> they are both well-versed in the problem domain.
> 
> 3)  The Japanese books are short so each project can be completed in a
> few months (each chapter can be translated in 2 weeks).
> 
> The translated books can be stored stored in electronic format and
> archived at the RAA, or if well-received, printed and distributed by a
> publisher such as O'Reilly.
> 
> Any thoughts?

1) Some Japanese programmers might be able to translate directly to idiomatic
English.

2) American people are not the only native English speakers in the world :-)

More seriously: do you think the copyright holders would allow this?
Perhaps they'd try to enforce some kind of NDA or something so the book
isn't leaked.

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