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Launchpad.net, where this project is hosted, has support for doing translations and this gave me an idea. I had just come back from speaking at the Python conference in Brazil, and was thinking about the user group there and how I might support them. (We had done a seminar while I was there in order to help pay for my trip and support the organization).
If the book can be kept in a Sphinx restructured text format that can be turned directly into camera-ready PDF (the basic form is there but it will take somebody messing about with it to get it into camera-ready layout), then the job of translation can be kept to something that could be done by user groups during sprints. The user group could then use a print-on-demand service to print the book, and get the group members to take them to local bookstores and do other kinds of promotions. The profits from the book could go to the user group (who knows, just like the Brazillian group, your group may end up using some of those profits to bring me to speak at your conference!).
If possible, I would like a royalty from these translations. To me, 5% of the cover price sounds reasonable. If the user group would like to use my cover, then they could pay this royalty. If they wanted to go their own way, it’s creative commons so as long as the book is attributed that’s their choice.