[FM Discuss] Flossmanuals and CiviCRM at Fosdem

[Michael McAndrew]

Hello people,

A couple of days ago I posted on the flossmanuals mailing list about
organising a developer room at fosdem.

My ideas are still in an early stages right now but the deadline for
submissions is two days away (22 November) so I wanted to quickly canvas
your opinion and get your input on a joint Flossmanuals / CiviCRM /
[possibly other projects] room.

I have to fill in a form on this page:
http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call-developer-rooms.  Here is a draft of what I
plan to put in the form, and some background.  Basically, below is a quick
brain dump.  I've copied the braindump to a google docs link and I am really
happy for people to add any comments and improve this using this google doc
links, or feel free to tell me that this is a good / bad / practical idea so
I have some idea of whether people will actually come along :)

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQe9cLdABCE2ZGhnbTlueHpfNWNwNmY2c2Zo&hl=en_GB

I've started this as a flossmanuals CiviCRM room, with the primary aim of
updating the CiviCRM book, but if there are other flossmanuals projects that
could take advantage of this room then definitley expand the description to
include them - fosdem are keen to make these rooms work across more than one
project.

Thanks,
Michael

--

*devroom name*

Floss manuals / CiviCRM / open translation tools

*devroom description*

Flossmanuals write open books for open source projects using the booksprint
model.  The dev room would host one or more mini-book sprints following the
flossmanuals formula to update and translate existing Flossmanuals books.
We also hope it will host other sprints for projects with existing
Flossmanuals books and stimulate developer collaboration and
cross-pollination between these projects.

At this stage the two books we think will generate most interest are
1) 'Understanding CiviCRM' a guide for non-profits - because we have
organised a CiviCRM developer meetup to co-incide with fosdem and
2)  book on Open Translation tools - because of the multilingual nature of
fosdem.

Other projects may well step up that are interested in holding book sprints
here.*

devroom related URLs*

http://civicrm.org
http://flossmanuals.net
http://civicrm.org/eu_event
http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm
http://en.flossmanuals.net/opentranslationtools

*devroom day(s)

*Both*

Contact info

*I'll stick my name down.  Anyone want their name there as well?
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