[FM Discuss] Ideas for FM

[John Curwood]

Hi Brylie,

You've got some great ideas here, one place to register new ideas for FM
and Booki in particular, is the http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ . If
you have a fantastic idea that just needs to be implemented you can
register with the dev site and then create a new 'ticket' with the type
=  'enhancement'.

But on the other hand if you have a germ of an idea but it still needs
some fleshing out then I agree, there should be a platform to incubate
them and help them grow.  

I think at the moment, the FM list would get the widest audience for
contributing to and distilling the ideas.  

However it is also probably the best place to come up with ideas for a
way to more effectively incubate new ideas. ;-D

By the way I particularly like the idea around having common chapters
that can be used in several manuals.

Cheers,

John

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 11:05 -0700, Brylie Oxley wrote:
> I have had some slowly occurring ideas recently, relating to FLOSS
> Manuals. What would be another good place to incubate these ideas?
> Perhaps an idea page on the blog?
> 
> Idea
> 'Book Patterns' reusable book elements.
> 
> 
> Description
> Many books have overlapping concepts and similar structural elements.
> For example two books on video editors will generally have sections on
> video formats. Can we incorporate the remix feature of FLOSS Manuals
> more tightly into the create section?
> 
> 
> Idea
> Key text highlighter.
> 
> 
> Description
> We can facilitate the creation of condensed FLOSS Manuals by
> highlighting essential text and images. The highlighted content can be
> exported as a distilled 'Cliffs notes' version of the larger text. Other
> uses of the highlighter, different colors perhaps, could be activities
> such as proof reading and annotation during book sprints.
> 
> 
> Idea
> Book sprint timelines.
> 
> 
> Description
> We can help book sprint teams and other documentation projects to stay
> organized by providing a 'tasks' interface. This interface can help the
> team to have a bird's eye view of the ongoing and upcoming activities.
> Tasks may be assigned to teams and individuals and e-mail reminders can
> deliver convenient updates.
> 
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