1.1. About the Author

Denis Simonov…​

1.1.1. Translation…​

Development of the original Russian version was sponsored by IBSurgeon and Moscow Exchange Bank. A crowd-funding campaign was launched by the Firebird Foundation in 2017 to fund the translation into English to provide this document as the foundation for translation by Firebird Project document writers into other languages.

The campaign succeeded in raising enough to get the process under way.

1.1.2. …​ and More Translation

Once the DocBook source appears in GitHub, we hope the trusty translators will start making versions in German, Japanese, Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech. Certainly, we never have enough translators so please, you Firebirders who have English as a second language, do consider translating some chapters into your first language.