|| On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:50:20 +0100 || Michael Kallas michael.kallas@web.de wrote:
mk> I wanted to direct you to the online issues at mk> http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/ but then I realised that only mk> issues until 2004 are available there. What happened?
Essentially the web volunteers got tired after a few years and disappeared over night while new volunteers never really got into the job and so the publication cycle broke down.
It took the translation cycle down with it (noone likes to do the work of translating if it isn't published afterwards) and since I had no resources whatsoever to restart the process. In fact I was always hard pressed to get the translation to English done myself and could not keep it up after the publication broke down. So the process died.
As a result the site is horribly outdated and there are a lot of issues Brave GNU World available in German, awaiting translation by someone heroic enough to tackle that task -- meanwhile I'm pondering whether it is worth to continue writing it, because it takes a lot of effort to motivate yourself every month for years to write the column.
Regards, Georg