[FM Discuss] FLOSSIFY

[adam hyde]

there will be no division of royalties.

its entirely a volunteer effort

adam



On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 20:26 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> I forgot to ask: You say that there is no money in it, but I assume
> that there will be royalties to be divided among the maintainers as
> usual, nicht wahr? How well is the first book selling?
> 
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:21 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hey,
> >
> > i think we might have an interesting new possibility for Book Sprints - essentially
> > taking existing manuals and turning them from documenting closed software to
> > documenting free software.
> >
> > there is a particular opportunity coming up for this for a text book
> > next year (in feb). Its a design book (published this month so its very
> > current) that uses photoshop in its examples. the author has asked me if
> > we would do a flossifying Book Sprint to change all the examples using
> > photoshop to examples using gimp
> >
> > it would happen in feb next year in NYC. there is no money in it but if
> > there is anyone in the nyc area that would like to take part or anyone
> > that would like to take part remotely please let me know. we are looking
> > to try and provide accomodation (of the couch variety) and food for
> > those that come. it will be 3 days or so over a weekend + a friday
> >
> > in a week or so i can provide more details...in the meantime as a
> > preliminary showing of hands - is there anyone interested in
> > participating?
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
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> > Adam Hyde
> > Founder FLOSS Manuals
> > http://www.flossmanuals.net
> >
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Adam Hyde
Founder FLOSS Manuals
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