[FM Discuss] bypassing internet censorship sprint done

[TJB]

Adam and company, I chatted with Edward Cherlin Monday evening, but I
owe to everyone who worked on the Circumvention Book Sprint the same
compliment:  this is absolutely an excellent accomplishment!

When I saw "0 to bookstore in 5 days" my first thought was "quick and
dirty", but this is absolutely "quick and squeaky clean"!

I am finding only minor typos to correct as I finally get around to
proofing it (didn't want to jump in in the middle of its development
and have to proof the changing chapters over and over), and I'm fixing
the very few things I find as I find them.

The most common error I'm finding is hyperlinks that go somewhere
other than where the text says they go.  The most common subset of
that group is missing the "http://" at the front of the link, so they
try to go to a (relative) page within flossmanuals.net.  Just a
heads-up for the next manual.

You may well be "sprint lagged", but the results of this effort
certainly made it worthwhile!

Tom Boyle




On 11/15/2008 12:59 AM, adam hyde wrote:
> hey
> 
> its late here...1am or so in upstate New York and the Book Sprint has
> finished. I can tell you, I'm completely knackered. 5 days in all - the
> last 3 days were 14 hr days, but we got it all done. It was an amazing
> experience...7 people living in one huge house for a week complete with
> Bald Eagles, Roebling Bridges, barbeque pit in the back yard and
> writing...some lively scenery, sort of Stephen King-ish.... It was a
> collection of people from France, Denmark, the US, NZ (me!), and
> Germany. Amongst these were representatives from FM, the EFF, cship.org,
> wndw.net and others.
> 
> We finished the "How to Bypass Internet Censorship" (with free software)
> manual. 200 pages all up. 630pm we uploaded it to lulu.com and it is now
> in the FM Book Store widget. thats 0 to bookstore in 5 days. 
> 
> You can see the book here:
> http://www.lulu.com/content/4904448
> 
> and the manual on FM here:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools
> 
> 
> you can also host it in your site with this html:
> 
> <img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/>
> <style>
>   @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css");
> </style>
>  <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
>  <script type="text/javascript">
>     FM.init({"preferred":["How to bypass internet censorship"]});
>  </script>
> 
> 
> as always, the manual is for free forever and it can be purchased as a
> book with a 2 euro mark-up. the income from sales is spent by the
> maintainers of the book in the way they think is best to continue the
> dev of the content. we haven't decided who the maintainers are yet but
> this will come.
> 
> i think its a fantastic manual. 
> 
> but i will leave that up to you to decide. for now i goto bed. 
> 
> special thanks to Janet Swisher for her offline editing and Lotte for
> the book cover :))
> 
> adam
> 
> 
>