[FM Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [FM PR] Possible collaboration with Floss Manuals]

Fri Aug 7 12:01:20 PDT 2009

I recently proposed that FM do a book on FLOSS advocacy.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Andy Oram<andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:
> Are you focusing on advocacy--teaching people how to explain the benefits of free software and ease the transition to it? If so, I can pull together some people I've talked to about that in Europe and Latin America. And even North America.
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> To: "floss" <discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
> Cc: "Steve Lake" <steve.lake at raiden.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 10:51:37 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [FM Discuss] [Fwd: Re: [FM PR] Possible collaboration with Floss Manuals]
>
> hi,
>
> This is an email discussion (see below) between myself and Steve Lake of
> Raidens Realm (http://raiden.net/) about a course he is starting. Steve
> has been a great supporter of FM and is looking to work with us to
> develop a textbook about free software. I suggested perhaps we bring
> this discussion to the FM list...
>
> It would be super if we could design and create a text book with steve
> for his course....anyone keen?
>
> (please cc Steve in replies)
>
> adam
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Steve Lake <steve.lake at raiden.net>
> To: adam at flossmanuals.net, pr at lists.flossmanuals.net
> Subject: Re: [FM PR] Possible collaboration with Floss Manuals
> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:37:42 -0400
>
> Nope, didn't have any specific books, as I'm still in the
> beginning stages of this.  But I was hoping that when we were done, we
> could have a generic intro course that could be taught in 2-5 hours
> (depending on how much time someone had to do the course) to help us Linux
> and FOSS enthusiasts, especially those without teaching ability, to be able
> to go out, inform the public, and make sure they know that there's choices
> out there, and what some of those are.  Because the more they know, the better.
>
>         From there, if they were curious enough to continue, a selection
> of books could be given to them to get them started learning Linux and FOSS
> apps, the latter dependent on what they need.  I could easily add a list at
> the end of the course that says, "for more info on subject x or y, go to
> floss manuals and get this and this book."  So basically this would benefit
> you guys by first getting them in the door, and then handing them off to
> you for further educating.
>
>         I do however like the idea that you guys are developing actual
> course books.  That sounds quite exciting and interesting.  How big of a
> course do you expect these books to be?  A full 14 week course, or
> something that could be done in an afternoon or a week at most?
>
> At 08:37 PM 8/6/2009 +0200, adam hyde wrote:
>>hey Steve,
>>
>>I dont want to any individual but i think FM in general is interested in
>>developing Text Books. We have recently been in touch with Goldsmiths
>>(Graham Harwood and Matthew Fuller) to see if there is a possibility to
>>develop course books with them.
>>
>>It seems this is a possibility. so, we are already on the path and any
>>possible collaboration is a good idea.
>>
>>For your project did you have any specific books in mind?
>>
>>also, do you know this:
>>http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>>
>>adam
>>
>>On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:14 -0400, Steve Lake wrote:
>> > http://forums.raiden.net/viewtopic.php?t=21911
>> >
>> >          Thought that might interest you guys.  I'm starting a project to
>> > develop a Linux and FOSS education and training course.  Something that
>> > could be put into the hands of just any joe and used to introduce people
>> > Linux and FOSS.  I'd love to see if you guys could help out with
>> developing
>> > a course like this, and in return we could put it into book form for sale
>> > in the FLOSS manuals bookstore.  The goal of the project is to introduce
>> > them to Linux and FOSS, get them in the door so to speak, and get them
>> > interested in learning more.
>> >
>> >          It's an education focused approach to promoting FOSS and Linux
>> > designed to replace the old elitist "RTFM" and Evangelistic approaches
>> > currently used today.  You guys are great at writing and developing help
>> > guides, manuals, and the like, so I figured if you wanted to jump in and
>> > help, we could easily toss a whole bunch of Floss manuals and book
>> > references into the project too in order to help you guys in return.  :)
>> >
>> >          Whatcha say?  Interested?
>> >
>> >
>> > Steven Lake
>> > Owner/Chief Editor
>> > Raiden's Realm
>> > www.raiden.net
>> > Bringing Linux to the World
>> >
>> >
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>> > pr at lists.flossmanuals.net
>> > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/pr-flossmanuals.net
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