Re: Translating Publishing Open Government Data

Hello Antti

I am the W3C contact person for volunteer and authorized translations.
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However, we do not include working drafts, such as the one in question in  
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cases, as it is Daniel Dietrich, when the translation of a WD is valuable  
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Best regards,
Coralie

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:49:24 +0200, Antti Poikola  
<antti.poikola@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel and others,
>
> That would be good to translate this kind of documents in other  
> languages. Actually I was quite surprised that the document was  
> published under restrictive copyright and not creative commons.
>
> -Antti
>
> Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> My name is Daniel Dietrich, I am the chairman of the german based  
>> non-profit NGO Opendata Network
>> http://opendata-network.org/
>>
>> Sorry - at this time most content is only in german language.
>>
>> The aim of the Opendata Network is to promote openaccess, opendata,  
>> opengovernment and transparency here in Germany and develop tools and  
>> websites to help the german Government and Authoritys to get their data  
>> open to the public.
>>
>> We would love to translate the document:
>>     Publishing Open Government Data
>> http://www-mit.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-gov-data-20090908/
>>
>> We think a translation of this important document could be a valuable  
>> help for our concerns.
>>
>> I just blogged about the Document on our blog:
>> http://opendata-network.org/2009/10/publishing-open-government-data/
>>
>> I did understand that we have to ask for permission to translate this  
>> document. So could we please translate it?
>>
>> Hope to hear from you soon.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Daniel Dietrich

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