[FM Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10

[JimmyVolatile]

Really well done on the Inkscape book! Well that's the only one I've read so
far anyway.

Taught me a couple of new things in no time.

Thanks,

Jimmy Volatile



On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:17 PM, <discuss-request at lists.flossmanuals.net>wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:54:21 +1300
> Subject: [FM Discuss] FLOSSify done
> phew...that was a marathon...more updates tomorrow
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> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:12:33 +0100
> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] FLOSSify done
> Congrats!
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> (and when you get some sleep and a cup of coffee, don't forget the FAFM
> issue ;) )
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> adam hyde wrote:
> > phew...that was a marathon...more updates tomorrow
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> > adam
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> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:38:57 +1300
> Subject: [FM Discuss] done and to be done
> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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 :))
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> Anyways...it was a fantastic group of people.
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> So, we will tweak the manual and then tomorrow send out some emails to
> alert people that its good to go.
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> 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.
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> adam
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