[FM Discuss] [IAEP] Sugar users manual

[adam hyde]

hi,

> 1) We should have a suggested style-guide page on flossmanuals. This
> project would be a good opportunity for us to start adding to that.
> The rule of copyediting isn't "correctness" but "consistency." I'd be
> happy to help in style guide development as I have experience in doing
> this. 

This would be wonderful. Would you feel like taking the lead in getting
this style guide together? I am sure Anne has some ideas on it already
also.


> 
> 2) I would suggest we have a project lead/Editor that helps to
> determine if we've met the necessary goals we want to reach in a
> timely manner. Not a dicator, but someone who can help steer help
> toward things that are most in need of being finished. Specifically,
> it would be good if we could mark pages/sections as "needs rewriting,"
> "needs copy-editing," "needs graphic," etc. A good way to
> annotate/bug-track. 

We are almost finished with a basic status marker for workflow
management of chapters. Should be ready tomorrow.

> 
> 3) It would be good to have the option of going to print. To do that,
> there are a number of print-quality requirements, such as picture DPI
> and other things. We should have a list of technical requirements
> needed to allow for that option in the future. 
> 

We have a beta system in place for producing print ready source for
print on demand. I will send a url when its ready for a peak. It
utilises CSS3 for formatting print ready book source from FM...the final
result looks beautiful. if you are dying for a look at the beta I am
happy to send anyone a preview url.

adam



> -Josh
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Brian Jordan <brian at laptop.org>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
>         <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>         > Greg Dekoenigsberg schrieb:
>         >>
>         >> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> I can participate if it is in the second-half of August...
>         I have lots
>         >>> more material from when I made the "getting started" guide
>         sitting on
>         >>> the "cutting room floor".
>         >>
>         >> I think it's worth considering making this and pitching it
>         to O'Reilly. In
>         >> the same format as Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source
>         Software" and other
>         >> works: available for sale, but freely licensed.
>         >>
>         >> The creation of a physical artifact that can be purchased
>         in stores is "a
>         >> big deal" and would go a long way towards establishing
>         credibility and
>         >> permanence.  "Holy crap, Sugar must be for real -- they're
>         selling the book
>         >> in Barnes and Noble!  With a Live CD!"
>         >
>         > That's an excellent idea and I think it would be great to
>         make a Live-CD and
>         > Sugar documentation available to the masses! :-)
>         
>         
>         This is a fantastic idea. A publication with step by step
>         activity
>         creation instructions and a liveCD with the barebones
>         activities
>         (templates?) referenced in the publication would provide a
>         distinct
>         starting point for developers interested in our project, even
>         those
>         who don't have an XO yet.
>         
>         I'd be more than willing to help with pyGame/OLPCGames
>         instructions/templates--I've been working through this sort of
>         activity creation process all summer.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Brian
>         
>         
>         >>
>         >> "Make no small plans."  Daniel Burnham.  :)
>         >>
>         >> --g
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