[FM Discuss] FSF Sprint

[adam hyde]

soooooooooooo

things have been whizzing on...I have just finished with the OReilly
Conf. I did a presentation of the FM Book Sprints showing off pictures
of the sprints so far and the results. I have made heaps of notes from
the conf so I will detail this soon in a full report...

however, I am now sitting in Boston South Railway waiting for the train
after having met with the Free Software Foundation. Feeling a bit tired
after 6 long days (FLOSSify 1 -> OReilly conf) and this morning up at
5am to get the train here...yaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnn)...

The meeting went great. It seems they think FM is pretty cool, and they
wish to support us by organising a Book Sprint in March with us. This
Book Sprint will be on a topic of our choice and it will be a short
event, designed to fit into their annual unconference in Boston. It will
be a 'walk in' format for a book sprint. We experimented with this a
little during the FLOSSify sprint last week, and I think its a
manageable and exciting format.

The FSF wish to use this opportunity to :
1. create some noise about what we do
2. bring more authors to FM
3. create a manual

The FSF will then print the manual and sell it from their website. On
the site they will state that all sales will go straight into developing
more manuals. They have about 1.6 million visits a month to their site
so thats pretty good news for us. The sales will go towards doing
another FM sprint.

All sounds good to me :)

I was thinking the initial sprint could be the authoritative
'Introduction to the Command Line'...this way we can really put to use
the gathering of unix geeks that will be there. At a FSF unconference
such as this I am pretty confident anyone attending could walk into a
sprint and write something about their favourite command or command line
trick within 45 minutes. So it suits the walk-in idea quite well I
think...

any ideas on the format and content welcome...i will also post more
information about the sprint when i know more...if there are any FMers
in Boston that would like to hang out and help keep it all together then
its sure to be fun and interesting...

adam




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