[FM Discuss] FLOSSify is go!

adam hyde adam at flossmanuals.net
Fri Feb 6 13:56:49 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 21:51 +0000, mick at mcin.net wrote:
> This is probably the wrong time to ask
> 
> But are the software specific chapers also going to be in cluded in
> the FM manuals for that software?

probably not at this point. its a bit specific to the idea of the book

> 
> In short, how are you approaching the issue of sofware based manuals
> and task based manuals and avoiding duplication with the structure. 

we arent considering it at this point

> Feel free to say "that's a question for  Amsterdam"
> 

thats also a question for amsterdam ;)

you coming to berlin?

adam



> mick
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Wow, you all, this content looks great. I love the "infobox"
>         tables as a feature of the page layout, too. 
>         
>         It's a great visual - going to the book's main "write" page
>         and seeing the blinking orange names showing that someone's
>         working on a chapter. Thanks for sharing photos, too Adam. The
>         photos just make the image of productivity come to life even
>         more. You are sprinting and you look great doing it! :)
>         
>         Anne
>         
>         
>         
>         On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, adam hyde
>         <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>                 On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:19 +0000, mick at mcin.net
>                 wrote:
>                 > great stuff!!!!!
>                 > go go go!
>                 > no sleep till bedtime!
>                 > i'll test out your gimp and kompozer work with the
>                 people of salford
>                 > soon enough!
>                 >
>                 
>                 
>                 :)
>                 
>                 some pics at :
>                 http://www.flossmanuals.net/about
>                 
>                 
>                 adam
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 > mick
>                 >
>                 > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM, adam hyde
>                 <adam at flossmanuals.net>
>                 > wrote:
>                 >         hey
>                 >
>                 >         we have started FLOSSify...you can see the
>                 progress here:
>                 >
>                 http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/DigitalFoundations
>                 >
>                 >         its looking good! anyone can contribute...we
>                 have broken the
>                 >         sections
>                 >         down to specific softwares and we are
>                 working with :
>                 >         inkscape
>                 >         gimp
>                 >         kompozer
>                 >         scribus
>                 >         firefox
>                 >         processing
>                 >
>                 >         we have 7 people currently working on it
>                 with more to come
>                 >         later. one
>                 >         interesting thing i learned from Micheal is
>                 a tip on layout.
>                 >         FM uses a
>                 >         max 600 pixel image width and if we keep the
>                 width of images
>                 >         to
>                 >         increments of 150 it makes the page look so
>                 much nicer than
>                 >         random image
>                 >         widths...
>                 >
>                 >         so widths of 150, 300, 450. 600 work very
>                 well..simple but
>                 >         effective
>                 >
>                 >         interesting for future layouts
>                 >
>                 >         adam
>                 >
>                 >
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