[conspire] (forw) Re: 'Consortium of All Bay Area Linux' translation

[Rick Moen]

The funny thing is, Eric Raymond and I recently got a similar inquiry, 
likewise from a free-of-charge webmail account, asking our permission
to translate 'How to Ask Questions the Smart Way' into Belarussian.
I thanked the correspondent, and gently pointed out that there's already
an existing Belarussian translation that's not only on the Web and 
(as far as I'm aware) perfectly adequate but also is mentioned right 
under the Table of Contents _and_ that permission is granted to 
translators under quite generous standard conditions right under that.

And now, this weirdly similar, almost identical offer, and a quick
check finds similar inquiries with MirOS Project, GNU Octave,
Amavisd, GCC, Linux Documentation Project, FreeBSD, Perl5 Porting FAQ,
LAPACK, Cygwin, Linux ASM, Procyon AVRlib, and Git (which puts CABAL 
in august but odd company).   Is something strange going on in Belarus?


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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:13:34 +0300
From: Bohdan Zograf <bozograf at gmail.com>
To: bofh at linuxmafia.com
Subject: 'Consortium of All Bay Area Linux' translation
Reply-To: "bozograf at gmail.com" <bozograf at gmail.com>

Hi!

I'm willing to translate publication located at
http://linuxmafia.com/cabal to the Belorussian language (my mother
tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission, so you don't
mind after I'll post the translation to my blog. The translation is
intended only for web, no print copies planned.
Visitors of your website, who come from Minsk (Belorussia) will be the
ones, who will read this blogpost, that's the only way to spread them,
no additional instruments we can use. Every translation we ever do
does not costs a penny for the webpage, which is translated. All we
ask is to link back in whatever way you feel confident about it.

Thank you for the article.
You can leave a voice message and I will call you back, if you prefer
a call instead of emails.

Sincerely,
Bohdan Zograf
+(360) 488-0303

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----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----

Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:26:46 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: Bohdan Zograf <bozograf at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 'Consortium of All Bay Area Linux' translation
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting Bohdan Zograf (bozograf at gmail.com):

> I'm willing to translate publication located at
> http://linuxmafia.com/cabal to the Belorussian language (my mother
> tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission, so you
> don't mind after I'll post the translation to my blog.

I hope you won't mind satisfying my curiosity:  What on
http://linuxmafia.com/cabal is interesting to people in Minsk?

I'm flattered that you would ask, but it seems incredible to even
dream of that page being interesting anywhere outside a 200 km 
circle surrounding Menlo Park, California.


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