[FM Discuss] an introduction

[Michael Mandiberg]

hello FLOSSmanuals list

An introduction: I am Michael Mandiberg.  I co-authored Digital  
Foundations, and helped coordinate the FLOSSification and translation  
into Spanish.

I have an aversion to mailing lists, as my inbox is profoundly  
cluttered as is, it took me several months after Adam invited me to  
join the list, but I am committed enough to the FLOSSmanuals project  
that I am willing to make this literally *the only* discussion list I  
am on.  No Rhizome, No Nettime, No iDC.  Just FLOSSmanuals.

FYI, xtine and I are putting together some more proposals for books  
for the Digital Foundations series with Peachpit.  This time we are  
going to try to negotiate a full CC-BY-SA license.  and regardless, we  
have already started writing them,and are going to port that to the  
wiki shortly, so the content will already be licensed.  so there will  
be a Digital imaging, 3D modeling, web design, Audio, Illustration,  
and maybe some other books that might be coming down the pipe.

I understand there is an active Finnish and Farsi translation project  
for DF.  Are there any others I am unaware of?  We machine translated  
into French and German, but those didn't seem to progress beyond that.  
Any updates on that from anyone who is involved, or wants to be  
involved in those translations.

Onboard and now onlist,

Michael

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Michael Mandiberg
Senior Fellow // Eyebeam
Assistant Professor // CSI/CUNY
http://mandiberg.com
michael at mandiberg.com
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