[FM Discuss] done and to be done

[adam hyde]

hiho,

well, FLOSSify 1 : Digital Foundations is complete. 2 days squatting
Eyebeam in NYC eating Pizza and drinking this terrible coffee out of
cardboard boxes, and we are all done. There are a few tweaks but pretty
much we converted the 400 or so page book to FLOSS.

We almost mapped the software 1 to 1 with just one exception replacing
the FLASH sections with Processing.

It was great fun. At any one time we had about 6 people there with a
peak of about 12. Some walked in because they had heard of it through
friends, others came because they had been following FM for sometime and
decided to contribute, others I or the Digital Foundations authors had
invited directly. We met some very cool people and set in motion
possibilities for more collaborations. 

Chris Blount came to help out and did a fantastic job with the Inkscape
chapters...amazing work - Chris and Joshua (from the Inkscape Book
Sprint team) hit it off and will hopefully work together in the future
on the Inkscape manual. Hans-Christoph Steiner came for an evening - hes
one of the main PureData programmers - and we had a great discussion
about Dereks PD manual. Hans uses it for teaching so we are looking to
get some people together to work with Derek to finish the manual (I'll
email you about this Derek). 

Rory Solomon came in at just the right moment and as NYCs resident
Processing guru, he sat down and wrote most of the Processing chapters
with Becky Heritage and Mel Chua. Mel was there for the whole 3 days
having bussed in from Boston :))

Anyways...it was a fantastic group of people.

So, we will tweak the manual and then tomorrow send out some emails to
alert people that its good to go.

So we finished at midnight this morning and 730am I was registering at
the OReilly conference. Now I am in the OReilly conference first seesion
and it looks a bit scary. Its in Times Square at the Marriot and it
looks very conservative and expensive so far. I got  a free ticket for
doing a 5 minute lightening talk tomorrow (good deal!). At the moment
the panel is full of very business looking people and they are about to
talk about copyright...i think this the wrong room for me...i'll give it
5 minutes and see what happens...anyways...its a long way from beer and
pizza at Eyebeam. I'll send a report about the conference at the end of
the 3 days.

adam


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