From lloyd at hilaiel.com Sun Sep 30 23:26:20 2007 From: lloyd at hilaiel.com (Lloyd Hilaiel) Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:26:20 -0600 Subject: [rhg-discussion] May I help? Message-ID: Hello all, I am an expert ansi C and fluent ruby programmer with moderate non- professional editing experience. I cannot say anything useful in japanese, though I have interacted extensively with japanese people in a technical capacity and have the ability to mostly understand the subtleties of literally translated japanese. I am extremely interested in the subject matter, and have embedded ruby into a larger program, and have read (and patched) the ruby interpreter (version 1.8.6). Currently I'm most interested in the inner workings of garbage collection. My questions are, where is the most useful place for someone like myself to start? I have started from the beginning (chapter 2) and wonder to what degree massaging of text to make it more idiomatic and natural is welcome? If it is, I am completely happy to submit patches and have them reviewed and rejected or partially accepted by another native english speaker. Otherwise, I'm willing to do whatever is deemed useful, and should have at least a couple hours a week to contribute. Regardless of whether I'm able to help, I feel this is an important book to translate, and am grateful for the time you all are contributing. Best, lloyd