This page seeks to give some overview, introductory and reference information for the new or occasional web page volunteer.
The technologies and programs used to maintain the FSF Europe web page should already be familiar to many developers and authors and might be of interest to those that have not yet discovered them.
Translators and occasional volunteers will most likely only get in touch with
Volunteers interested in getting deeper into the maintenance should also be familiar with
The first thing you should do is get yourself a Savannah account in case you haven't done so already. Let one of the FSF Europe savannah project admins know your login and ask them to please add you to the FSF Europe project on Savannah.
You may want to consider subscribing to the web@fsfeurope.org mailing list, which is used for web site co-ordination.
It's also usefull to be subscribed to web-cvs-notify@fsfeurope.org in order to get a notice if anything on the website changed.
Once you have been added to the FSF Europe page, please follow the instructions on savannah to retrieve the file(s) you are interested in working on.
Now you can start working after reading the next section.
Given that the FSF Europe web page has a European/global level and user-chosen local levels that supplement them for information that is country-specific, the layout has a certain complexity that is hidden entirely from the user of the page.
[DOCUMENTATION] Unless you only wish to translate pages (see below), please make sure you have taken a look at the structural reference.
[DOCUMENTATION] Also, there is a Texinfo documentation file "Webmastering FSF Europe" by Jonas Öberg, who implemented the build system for the page. Please read it to know more about how the web page works.
These easy rules should keep you out of trouble and save you from frustration while making it easy to create translations.
If you have further questions, please ask them on web@fsfeurope.org or get in touch with the current web page co-ordinator, Jonas Öberg.