[FM Discuss] infinity and beyond

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:19, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> So...I am off for a weeks holiday from tomorrow and I wanted to post
> here some news on a few things... First, there is a sprint coming up
> that is quite interesting. Transmediale (tranmediale.de) has invited FM

http://www.transmediale.de/

try that :)

> to do a Book Sprint for their festival in Berlin. Transmediale is a
> digital culture festival that happens every year in Berlin, it is one of
> the biggest of its kind in the world I believe. The invite was quite
> open, and so I suggested, since the theme for the festival is 'futurity'
> to do a sprint on 'the futures of free culture'. A suitable topic for a
> sprint i think...
>
> Anyways, the date has yet to be set, but we are looking at the last
> weeks in January. So far the invitation list has been sent out to a
> small group of participants. We have a yes (pending dates) from :
> Marta Pierano - writer and copyfighter from spain
> Alan Toner - Steal this Film
> Bob Stein - Founder, Future of the Book
> Mike Linksvayer - Director, Creative Commons
> Mark Surman - Director, Mozilla Foundation
>
> with a 'maybe' from Erik Moeller, the Deputy Director of Wikimedia
> Foundation. I have also invited Brewster Kahle (founder of Archive.org)
> but no response yet.
>
> Its all very tentative but exciting :) This will be an interesting
> one!..I hope they can all come, but if not we can make up a good crew
> with others :)
>
> Since we have had a very interesting conversation on models for
> contributing, I was wondering if we could generate some ideas on how
> such a sprint could be conducted...its quite a new case for a sprint, so
> it might take some pondering...
>
> Second, Booki is coming along very well...we will have a preview
> available soon. At this point we will also open the doors for testing
> and bringing more developers in...
>
> lastly, i was wondering how we might conduct an informal review of what
> we all think of fm and how we are going. Since its our 1000th
> birthday ;) i thought it might be an appropriate moment to consider what
> is working and what isnt. I am not exactly sure how to go about
> this...any ideas?...
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> adam
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