[FM Discuss] Beyond manuals

[Elisa]

Le Tuesday 24 March 2009 16:32:26 adam hyde, vous avez écrit :
> ok, certainly an identica manual would be cool and seems like they might
> be up for it.
>
> i think there is also an overdue need for a gimp manual,

=> the official documentation of Gimp is quite complete (not upgrade is true). 
But it's more complete than the inkscape manual.

So, can we ask them to host their manual ? Or, like the answer you have done 
for the openoffice manual : let see what the community will do ?

Elisa

> and a good 
> openoffice manual
>
> adam
>
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:00 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> > Adam, I see good points in both your recent emails to this list: 1) we
> > should consolidate what we've just done, 2) we should set the groundwork
> > for the next books, even if we're a bit frazzled over the most recent
> > efforts.
> >
> > I think I'll have some time this coming Saturday to fiddle with the order
> > and transitions in the command-line manual. I'm not going to put in such
> > effort on every book, but I feel a responsibility toward this one.
> >
> > O'Reilly just announced the release of our Twitter book, and Tim O'Reilly
> > himself worked on it. Other publishers are pushing Twitter hard too. We
> > should let the public know there's a free alternative.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:57:44 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Beyond manuals
> >
> > Ewan from indenti.ca wanted to chat about a book for it. I didnt catch
> > up with him before the end of the fsf event...shall i write to him?
> >
> > adam
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:00 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> > > This is a valuable discussion; it is not blue-sky but goes to the heart
> > > of our purpose and challenges how we are to achieve it.
> > >
> > > And thanks so much for your praise of my article, Anne.
> > >
> > > I've always approached books as something to be done beautifully, as
> > > Mick has been talking about--as something several notches above the
> > > noise on the forums, but I'm being dragged back to that noise
> > > repeatedly. I got so excited about our conversation that I wrote up
> > > some of my ideas as a blog:
> > >
> > >  
> > > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/03/challenges-from-a-book-sprint.html
> > >
> > > I want FLOSS Manuals to have an extra splash of quality, but I don't
> > > believe we'll get there just by reader reviews. My own career is based
> > > on the proposition that my skills are worth paying for and can't be
> > > replaced by a thousand eyeballs looking randomly over material. But I
> > > want to make the most of what volunteer reviewers do.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, I like Anne's ideas for keeping in touch through IM and
> > > Twitter and so forth. One of the phenomena of new tech is that people
> > > ooh and ah over something that makes it a bit easier for them to do
> > > things they had trouble with--not realizing that something even better
> > > is just around the corner. We must keep trying new stuff. And then
> > > we'll have lots of FM members who can document new stuff when it's
> > > worthy. Lots of books about how to build a business using Twitter are
> > > coming out around now. Suppose we did a book to promote identi.ca? And
> > > then followed up with one about Crabgrass?
> > >
> > > Andy
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Elisa