[FM Discuss] Form submission from: Get Involved Form

[Mick]

Hello Cathy,


I'm ccing the FM discuss list again in case anyone else want to know
about the mission of adding the remaining manuals to the new page at
http://flossmanuals.net.


Here's a summary of the process but feel free to email me with more
questions.


If you can see a manual in the archive page.
http://archive.flossmanuals.net that hasn't made it to the new one at
http://flossmanuals.net


Check is has been migrated and find out it's new address (many weren't
migrated for various reasons - found other homes etc)


https://ethercalc.org/k3idd5dtta

(substitute http://write.flossmanuals for http://floss.booktype.pro/ )


We need to add the data for the new pages to a file here.

https://gitlab.com/mickfuzz/fm_en_splash/blob/master/data/book_details.json


You can see the format is as follows

|{"title":"How to Bypass Internet Censorship", "category":"Internet",
"img_url":"index_fr_files/bypass_600.png", "description":"There is a
vast amount of energy, from commercial, non-profit..... ",
"read_link":"http://write.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship",
"pdf_link":"http://archive.flossmanuals.net/_booki/bypassing-censorship/bypassing-censorship.pdf",
"epub_link":"http://archive.flossmanuals.net/_booki/bypassing-censorship/bypassing-censorship.epub",
"languages":[ {"name":"English",
"link":"http://write.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship"},{"name":"دریافت‎",
"link":"http://archive.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship-fa/"},{"name":"العربية",
"link":"http://archive.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship-ar/"}],"keywords":[
{"name":"online-pad"},{"name":"realtime-editing"} ]},|

So the process involves the following


inputting the manual name and a short description of about 400 characters,

a default image of say "index_fr_files/flossman_blue_600.png"

and finding links for the online manual and the epubs and pdf files
(which are found at the old web page at say
|http://archive.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-censorship)|

adding any  translations that exist

choosing keywords,

I wouldn't worry about creating images unless you want to (I can send
you a template in inkscape if you like)

Hope that makes sense. I have been going down the archive page and I
think I am up to Linphone, but I know I have missed some too.


Do let me know if you have questions and thanks again for helping out.


If you know the git system you can do a pull request for the file here
with you additions.

https://gitlab.com/mickfuzz/fm_en_splash/blob/master/data/book_details.json


If not you can just email them too me.


Many thanks,

Mick


On 01/02/17 01:28, Xiong Ying wrote:
>
> Hi Mick,
>
>
> Thank you very much for your clear and detailed explaination! I
> appreciate it very much! I think I would like to start with adding
> manuals that exist on the old site to the new one, but I am unsure how
> to do that. Where should I ask for help for questions like these? Is
> there a webpage?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Cathy
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Mick <mick at flossmanuals.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2017 4:49:22 AM
> *To:* x.yxiong at outlook.com; discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* Re: Form submission from: Get Involved Form
>  
> Dear Cathy,
>
> Many thanks for your interest in volunteering for FLOSS Manuals.
> I've cc-ed our community list to introduce you. You can join the list
> here if you are interested to do so.
> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net
>
> You mentioned you are interested in writing, editing and development.
> Our main project at the moment is to finish work on our new front page
> which you can see here.
> http://flossmanuals.net/
>
> We are looking to do the following things and you may be able to help.
>
> 1) identify and fix links which don't work on that page (report should
> be logged here https://gitlab.com/mickfuzz/fm_en_splash/issues)
>
> 2) add manuals which are on the old site but not the new one (the old
> site is still live here (http://archive.flossmanuals.net/)
>
> 3) Improve summary texts of manuals on the front page to make it clear
> what the software is and what you can do with it. :)
>
> I think this could be a way of getting to know the site better and
> seeing if there are manuals that you think you would like to update,
> improve or get ideas for new projects.
>
> Probably the best thing to do is to pick a small mission and then to
> email to ask for help for how to do it.
>
> Many Thanks
> Mick
>
> On 27/01/17 06:33, FLOSS Manuals Foundation wrote:
> > Submitted on Friday, January 27, 2017 - 07:33
> >
> >
> > Name: Cathy Xiong
> > Email: x.yxiong at outlook.com
> > I'm interested in :
> >   - Writing and Editing
> >   - Developing and Supporting Tech
> > How I can help..: I am have some knowledge in Python
> >
> >
> > The results of this submission may be viewed at:
> > http://www.flossmanuals.org/node/150/submission/373
> >
>

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