[FM Discuss] this is cool

[adam]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 12:47 -0600, James Simmons wrote:
> 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.

no, anyone can edit it. its just that it appears as a link only on the
'my manuals' page for the person that created it. you can send someone a
direct link and they cna edit as they like

adam



> 
> 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
> > Founder FLOSS Manuals &
> > Booki Project Manager
> >
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> >
> >
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