[FM Discuss] whats going on...

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 09:34, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:20 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
>> Adam, it seems like FM is evolving--as it would inevitably do, because
>> it's successful--from a book development platform to something more
>> general, even an alternative to Wikipedia for a surprisingly wide
>> range of topics. Has anyone been talking about this evolution and how
>> it might change the organization or the message?
>
> i would be interested in that discussion...do you feel like kicking it
> off?

I think that the correct comparison is to Wikibooks.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WB:FB  List of featured books

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Card_Catalog_Office  All books

For example,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Parrot_Virtual_Machine

could use some attention. Allison Randall of Parrot and O'Reilly knows
much more about that, and has expressed interest in working with us.

Parrot could also do with a much simpler Howto about using existing
language implementations from http://www.parrot.org/languages, perhaps
starting with a Why Parrot? chapter and a non-developer's guide to
downloading Parrot and various languages using Subversion, and then
various options for using the downloaded software.

I'm interested in this for education in One Laptop Per Child, and for
playing around with these and other languages myself.

I would be interested to hear from others who might find opportunities
for FM within the Wikibooks collection. There will also be license
issues.

Most of Wikibooks' text is dual licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU
Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant
sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text may be
only available under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-SA-compatible license and
cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified either on
the page footer, in the page history, or the discussion page of the
module that utilizes the text.

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