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.. i18n: The main documentation of OpenERP is composed of a set of books according to
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.. i18n: the business need. These books are reviewed once a year. We are working with
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.. i18n: authors/contributors/employees/translators to build chapters on the different
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.. i18n: aspects of the ERP. As to motivate people to write quality documentation,
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The main documentation of OpenERP is composed of a set of books according to
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the business need. These books are reviewed once a year. We are working with
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authors/contributors/employees/translators to build chapters on the different
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aspects of the ERP. As to motivate people to write quality documentation,
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.. i18n: This section describe how we collaborate with authors and translators to
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.. i18n: provide a very good documentation on OpenERP. As to motivate people to write
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.. i18n: quality documentation/chapters we set up author rights to pay every contributor
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.. i18n: and translator according to their effort.
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This section describe how we collaborate with authors and translators to
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provide a very good documentation on OpenERP. As to motivate people to write
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quality documentation/chapters we set up author rights to pay every contributor
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and translator according to their effort.
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.. i18n: Building a Book
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.. i18n: We have contract with several editors to publish books in different countries.
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We have contract with several editors to publish books in different countries.
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.. i18n: Once we have enough chapters written, we can compose a book and publish it.
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Once we have enough chapters written, we can compose a book and publish it.
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.. i18n: Books are first published in a paper version. Three months after, we release it online.
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Books are first published in a paper version. Three months after, we release it online.
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.. i18n: Author Rights
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.. i18n: The typical author rights are between 8% and 10% on the public price, according
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This commission is on the public price, no matter of the final selling price
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.. i18n: These author rights have to be divided according to people working on the book:
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These author rights have to be divided according to people working on the book:
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.. i18n: * Reviewers: 10% to be divided by number of reviewers
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.. i18n: * Translators: 30% to be divided by the number of translators
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* Reviewers: 10% to be divided by number of reviewers
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* Translators: 30% to be divided by the number of translators
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* Authors: the rest (60%-90%) to be divided by number of authors
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.. i18n: OpenERP. This book is sold at a public price of 35 EUR with 10% author rights.
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OpenERP. This book is sold at a public price of 35 EUR with 10% author rights.
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.. i18n: * Geoff: 1.575 EUR/book (= 35 * 0.1 * (0.9 / 2))
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* Geoff: 1.575 EUR/book (= 35 * 0.1 * (0.9 / 2))
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* Fabien: 1.575 EUR/book
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Once this book will be translated to Hungarian, with a public price of 30 EUR
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.. i18n: * Geoff: 1.05 EUR/book (=30 * 0.1 * 0.7 / 2)
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* Geoff: 1.05 EUR/book (=30 * 0.1 * 0.7 / 2)
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* Fabien: 1.05 EUR/book
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Author rights are paid every 3 months, after one month. (to be verified
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according to what we can do with editors)
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.. i18n: Everyone can be an author and write a complete book or just one or several
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Everyone can be an author and write a complete book or just one or several
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.. i18n: on new module he wrote for specific customers, at the end of the project. As
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.. i18n: * Computed rights are divided by two for the employee: 50%
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* Computed rights are divided by two for the employee: 50%
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* Valid until the employee work for Tiny
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Each module should have a small and minimal documentation.
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the documentation. So, Sphinx should be installed on your system and you should
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.. i18n: <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall>`_. For example, on Ubuntu: ::
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.. describe:: building the documentation in html:
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.. i18n: The first french book we wrote is sold at 500 items per month. It's good as it
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The first french book we wrote is sold at 500 items per month. It's good as it
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was our the first book on OpenERP but we can expect better results with an
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english version. So probably between 250 and 1500 items per month for an