[FM Discuss] The Inkscape Booksprint is finished!!

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:18:58PM -0500 Anne Gentle wrote: 
> Congratulations on your accomplishment! You should be quite proud of the
> hard work.

i agree. i think that Inkscape is one of the most well designed,
accomplished artist-friendly free-software applications out there. it's
really important that it has a strong manual. it's another FLOSS Manual
i'll use in my own teaching work.

congrats,

-- 
julian oliver
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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:44 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> 
> > small correction
> >
> > > You can see it online at discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > >
> >
> > ???online at ???http://www.flossmanuals.net/inkscape
> >
> >
> > > Of course, you'll see that the current table of contents has a large
> > > number of incomplete chapters.  Our goal was to get the most basic
> > > chapters finished and usable, so all the Introduction and Tools
> > > chapters are fairly complete and in good form.  Some are actually
> > > excellent.  There are other chapters as well which are finished, such
> > > as chapters on text, styling objects, etc.
> > >
> > > You will see that there is some inconsistency in writing and visual
> > > style also.  This booksprint was a great opportunity to work some of
> > > these problems out, so content written earlier and quickly does not
> > > strictly follow guidelines that we established, but these things will
> > > be worked out as we continue adding content.
> > >
> > > The exciting thing is that now we have a functional manual repository
> > > that will aid in keeping various languages' manuals in sync and that
> > > is really very simple to use, so that anyone can help to add new
> > > content and keep existing content updated!
> > >
> > > The French manual is currently lagging (translations will be
> > > following, this time, in an amazing reversal, from English to French)
> > > and current French content will continue being updated and converted
> > > to English as we go.
> > >
> > > Again, if anyone is interested in helping, please contact the manual
> > > maintainers on the inkscape-docs at lists.sourceforge.net mailing list to
> > > find out what needs most to be done.  (Some of us will be sort of
> > > taking a break for a while, though, since we're tired from lots of
> > > hard work :)
> > >
> > > Thanks to all who helped support and will continue to support the
> > > manual effort!!
> > >
> > > Thanks especially go to Adam Hyde and FLOSS Manuals for making the
> > > booksprint a possibility and a reality.  Adam has been a huge help,
> > > giving direction, taking suggestions and implementing new features
> > > on-the-fly!  Thanks a ton, Adam!
> > >
> > > Joshua Facemyer and the Inkscape Manual Booksprint team
> > > _______________________________________________
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