[FM Discuss] FLOSSIFY

[Edward Cherlin]

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.

+1

> 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

A doddle. Do we get to add anything? Something with script-fu, for example?

> 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 accommodation (of the couch variety) and food for
> those that come. it will be 3 days or so over a weekend + a friday

Remotely, I'll give it a try.

> 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

What then? These are just some that I have run afoul of either in
personal use or on tech writing contracts.

o MS Office/Open Office--docs, spreadsheets, presentations, database, macros...
o Illustrator/Inkscape
o Visio/Dia
o Framemaker/Scribus
o Autocad/QCaD
o Windows programming/Linux/Gnome/KDE/Sugar programming?
o C++/Smalltalk? ("I invented OOP, and C++ was not what I had in
mind."--Alan Kay)
o Homepage/Quanta Plus
o IIS/Apache
o Flash/Gnash

How about Circumvention 2.0: Software Patents, DRM, and Proprietary
File Formats? It would be _so_ much fun writing the chapters on
incompetent use of cryptographic algorithms and on trying to keeping
reality secret from its users. *<%-] And explaining the costs of
proprietary software to all of us.

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