[FM Discuss] Flossmanuals and CiviCRM at Fosdem

[adam hyde]

i think a few non-civi ppl will turn up so it can be a nice meet up
across projects :)

adam


On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 13:42 +0000, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> 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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