[FM Discuss] FM upstream to Sugar Labs

[adam hyde]

hi,


> 
> I am thinking about using FM documentation in the same manner.  Sugar
> Labs has nowhere near the time or manpower to create documentation as
> effectively as FM.

It sounds good to me, except you should note that FM is in some ways a
collection of communities. The OLPC manual is headed up by Anne and
several others have also worked on it. In this sense you could imagine
FM to be a smaller friendlier version of source forge. There is a
platform established for making manuals - but each manual must work out
its own way of getting contributions. For this reason I think Anne is
the FM touchstone on OLPC/Sugar manuals as she has already started this
process. 

> 1.  Ask your permission to use your documentation as our primary user
> documentation.
> 

All docs are GPL. So you are free to do with them as you like. Thats
actually the point but its very nice of you to ask :)

> 2.  Request that we work together to create the 'canonical' Sugar and
> Activities documentation.

sounds good to me. We should perhaps discuss how to bring others into
the project. Some on the FM list maybe interested but there are also
other strategies. Anne and I had considered applying for a small amount
of money to have a Book Sprint on Sugar...I think this could be a very
effective way of not just producing material but getting everyone
heading in the same direction.

> 
> 3.  Express that we are not expecting you to write our manual.  Instead,
> we are using your manual about our product.
> In return we will:
> 
> 1. Always keep the documentation open.
> 
> 2.  Send patches back upstream if we find bugs or ways to improve the
> manual.  (Sending patches and finding bugs is not the right terminology,
> but you get the idea.) 
> 
> 3.  Direct potential documentation writers to you to help build your
> community.


I think its worth getting Annes thoughts on the above :)

adam


> 
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> Dfarning
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