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Co-authored-by: Tobias Diekershoff <tobiasd@fsfe.org> Reviewed-on: #5747
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<title>Ada’s Norwegian adventure begins!</title>
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<body>
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<h1>Ada’s Norwegian adventure begins!</h1>
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<p>When Petter discovered “Ada & Zangemann”, he immediately felt the
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urge to make sure the story was available to the Norwegian speakers.
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Now “Ada og Zangemann - En fortelling om programvare, rullebrett og
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bringebæris” has been published and was presented during the
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Norwegian local celebrations of the “I Love Free Software Day”. Read
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Petter’s story!</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/19/71/861183cf68f6a001a6781a509f71.jpeg"
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alt="Ada and Zangemann books in Norwegian"/>
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</figure>
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<p></p>
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<p>In November 2023, I first encountered the children’s book <a
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href="https://ada.fsfe.org/">Ada & Zangemann,</a>
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written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. It
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quickly became clear to me that this was a story I wanted
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to see available in my native language. That thought led me to get in
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touch with the author and dive into <a
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href="https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/ada-zangemann">the book git
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repository</a> to figure out what would be required to produce a
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Norwegian Bokmål edition.</p>
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<p>Before I started translating the book, I wanted to change the build
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process for HTML and PDF editions, in order to simplify the translation
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process and make it possible to keep track of how the translation
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corresponds with the original and other languages. I submitted a patch
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that implemented gettext PO files to maintain translations, creating PO
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files for existing translations, which was well received. Together with
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Nico Rikken from the Netherlands we have changed the book building
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process. It now uses DocBook XML, which is automatically converted to
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Scribus XML and to HTML for typesetting and website publishing.
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This is either done directly or combined with translations in PO format
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into a translated edition. With this in place, the translator work could
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finally begin on the translation platform Weblate.</p>
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<p>For the actual translating work, I received valuable help from two other
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volunteers, Hagen Echzell and Henrik G. Sundt. They both assisted with
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the translation from English and coordinated the Norwegian translation
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with the German original. Without their help, the book would not have
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been finished yet.</p>
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<p>The translation and the book were actually ready in December, but due to
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some technical changes required in the final stages to ensure the
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manuscript met Lulu's distribution requirements, it was not available to
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a wider audience until after New Year. The result is that I am very
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happy to
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announce that the Norwegian Bokmål translation is ready and available
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for ordering in print via <a
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href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/sandra-brandstätter-and-matthias-kirschner-and-petter-reinholdtsen-and-henrik-g-sund/ada-og-zangemann/paperback/product-zmr289r.html">lulu.com</a>
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alongside<a
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href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/"> my other published books</a>.</p>
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<p>During my conversations with the author, he told me that encouraging
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readers to buy an extra copy of his book and donate it to their local
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library had proven to be a very effective approach. It’s an idea that I
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wholeheartedly
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support. If you think this book deserves a wider audience, consider
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ordering an additional copy and donating it to a library that doesn’t
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yet have it in its collection.</p>
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<p>If you choose to do so, I’d appreciate it if you could <a
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href="mailto:%20pere-adazangemann@hungry.com">email me</a>
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letting me know which library you plan to donate the book to. This will
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help me to keep track of which <a
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href="https://git.fsfe.org/pere/ada-zangemann/src/branch/i18n-nb-libraries/LIBRARIES-nb.md">libraries
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have already received a copy</a> and make it easier to identify
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those that still might benefit from one.</p>
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<p><strong>The book was officially launched during the Norway
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celebrations of the I Love Free Software Day organised by the
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</strong><a href="http://www.nuug.no/"><strong>Norwegian Unix User Group
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(NUUG)</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
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<p>Moreover, NUUG is purchasing around 100 books for organising
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different events and giving it away at local spots, mainly
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libraries.</p>
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<p>The book's terms of use are Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
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4.0 International, which allows everyone to share and modify both raw
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files and the finished result, as long as all who receive the content
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can do the same. Any surplus from book sales goes to the FSFE. </p>
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<p>My next step will be to see if we can produce more language editions of
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the book, starting with a Nynorsk edition of Norwegian. The first draft
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of the Nynorsk translation is ready, but it probably needs quite a lot
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of proofreading before it is ready for publication. If you are
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interested in contributing to additional language editions, please have
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a look at the Weblate project and get in touch with me via email.</p>
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<p class="text-center">
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<fsfe-cd-donate-link class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">Donate to the FSFE!
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</fsfe-cd-donate-link>
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</p>
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</body>
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<author>
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<name>Petter</name>
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</author>
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<tags>
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<tag key="community">Community</tag>
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<tag key="ada-zangemann">Ada and Zangemann</tag>
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<tag key="no">Norway</tag>
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<tag key="education">Education</tag>
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<tag key="software-freedom">Software Freedom</tag>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="highlights">highlights</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://mastodon.social/deck/@fsfe/116158936540748180"/>
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<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/19/71/861183cf68f6a001a6781a509f71.jpeg"
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alt="Ada and Zangemann books in Norwegian"/>
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