[FM Discuss] this is cool

[James Simmons]

Adam,

The problem with not adding a book to a Group is that only one author
can work on the book.  You could have everyone use the same user id
but then there is no audit trail of who did what, which is a desirable
feature.

The real answer for this, I feel, is to give Booki and Objavi proper
setup.py scripts and better instructions to make installing Booki for
a company easier and more likely to follow company standards.  I wrote
a chapter "A Booki of Your Own" in E-Book Enlightenment that describes
my experiences installing the software on a Linux box in my office.

James Simmons


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> so...
>
> well, we talked a bit about 'what if someone was to doc their internal
> systems'...i think James brought it up. He said that would not really be
> ok for him, and I think I agreed that under those circumstances the
> person(s) could install their own version of booki
>
> but...now i am rethinking...and i am rethinking because the road to
> booki is full of interesting unanticipated discoveries...in particular i
> find this interesting:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/v2_web/edit/
>
> In Rotterdam there is a media lab called 'v2' and they do lots of
> interesting things. They use all free software. I was very surprised,
> and pleasantly so, to see that they had started documenting their
> internal site...built on Plone...in FM...this is the first time this has
> happened and it is a direct result, I believe, or letting anyone set up
> a manual...as opposed to the old system where only john or i could do
> this...
>
> so...i think this is wonderful...it is a pity that their is not a good
> plone manual in FM...if there were...then v2 could use parts of that
> manual to make their inhouse guide...that makes a tremendous amount of
> sense to me and it could be a wonderful new way that people use FM. it
> also makes it a good argument to get manuals in the FM repo for content
> management systems....
>
> the fact that the v2 manual is not added to a group means it effectively
> lives in a 'private' space...we can list the generic manuals on the
> front page and then enable anyone to use this 'user space' (forgive me
> for using this term...) to do their own thing (as long as it is about
> free software)...
>
> this seems to me to have enormous potential
>
> adam
>
>
> --
> vote for booki in the Open Web Awards!
>
> Booki (the latest FM project - http://www.booki.cc - a collaborative
> publishing platform) is in the final of the Open Web Awards.
> Great! We are 1 of 3 projects. If we win we get 5000 which we will use
> to do a code sprint on a tropical island somewhere ;)
>
> please please please register :
> http://www.drumbeat.org/user/register
>
> and vote for us:
> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing
>
> and pass this around!!!! :)
>
> Adam Hyde
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> Booki Project Manager
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