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[Jean-Marc Gailis - Jānis-Marks Gailis <jm-gailis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,
I'm new on the UMP mailing list, but I wanted to explain the French
community's point of view:
We saw, five years ago, when we were selling "Simple comme Ubuntu" (in
English, "Simple as Ubuntu"), a book written by Didrocks, that having a
book made to help the people discovering Ubuntu was very useful. We sold
thousand exemplars of this book. Unfortunately, for the 11.10, Didrocks
had no more time, because of the work amount Canonical is giving him. So
Ubuntu-fr stopped releasing this book.

At the 13.10 Ubuntu Party Paris, I discovered the UMP, fully translated
in French, and, the most important, easy to understand.
The 28th June, Ubuntu-fr had its general assembly, we were told, by the
board, to propose projects the -fr community could achieve.
I though about the UMP: and I proposed it to the board. Everybody agreed
to invest in the project.
The idea is not to release a book for each version as we did with
"Simple comme Ubuntu", but to release the book for LTS.
If the community asks us for selling a printed version of the addendum
for the minor releases, we will, of course, do so.

But for the French community, there is a very high demand for a book
about Ubuntu.
The UMP is the solution. We need to continue publishing this fantastic
book, the community asks us to do so.

I agree with the ones who explained it's to much work to make an UMP
version for every minor release. But then we have to publish a addendum,
to explain the new functionalities in the release.

On 15/07/2014 18:53, Sylvie Gallet wrote:
> Hi All,
> I strongly agree with what Pierre said, and I am not interested in
> working with the docs team.  Also I think that releasing a manual only
> for LTS releases and publishing an addendum to the latest LTS for all
> minor releases might be a good idea.
So, as all French community's members, I strongly agree with both Pierre
and Sylvie ;-)

Merging with the docs team would be a fatal error.

Cheers,

-- 
Jean-Marc Gailis
Jānis-Marks Gailis
Ubuntu-fr Member
Ubuntu GNOME Translations' Coordinator
Ubuntu Latvian Translator

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