FreeBSD Farsi (Persian) Translation

[Chuck Swiger]

>  On 10/3/05, Kambiz Agahian <kambizzz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Thank you chuck for replying.
>>Due to the very fast growth of using Unix-based operating systems in
>>middle-east.It seems imperative to me that the FreeBSD official website
>>has got to support Persian(Farsi) language before any other docs due to the
>>fact that this may attract first time users and would affect significantly.
>>In middle-east Persian(Farsi) language is widely spoken and it is the
>>official language of 3 fast-growing countries ,besides many people are able
>>to understand it rudimenterily in this region.
>>As such,we sringly believe that supporting Pesian(Farsi) language is a
>>must for our BSD community and that's why we are here.
>>I'e visited recommended pages and
>>-No group is working on this language .
>>-No server is mirroring any BSD community official stuff in above
>>countries.
>> Hence, I think that we need your guidelines to start the job as soon as
>>possible, we need an starting point (it is much better that we start from
>>website).
>>Hope to have a FreeBSD in Persian!
>>Thank you,

The tools used to build the documentation such as the handbook are also used to 
build much of the website on www.freebsd.org itself.  You should install the 
docproject tools and follow the FDP at least far enough to check out the doc 
and www trees via CVS or CVSup, and build an article or two yourself from the 
existing content so that you understand how things work and the basics of 
SGML/XML markup.

While you can in theory start translating any content you want to work on, you 
really ought to start with the Handbook, specificly the first section on how to 
install FreeBSD itself.  When you have useful content translated and available, 
you can either submit a PR or post it, or a link to it, here on the 
<freebsd-doc at freebsd.org> mailing list...

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-Chuck