[FM Discuss] questions about place

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On 07/02/10 18:28, adam wrote:
> i'm not sure i understand the point...promotion? we have never been good
> at it, i have to say, but promotion comes down to us telling people
> about what we do...for example, i do a lot of talking about fm, book
> sprints, specific manuals, free documentation, free manuals, free
> culture, free content etc etc etc ...at these i would choose to talk
> about booki when appropriate and not at other times...im not sure i get
> the question though...

If the software is good it will probably travel by itself or through the
use of it in other domains. Which brings me to the point that I wanted
to merely flag up as an idea:

Academic textbooks produced in FM-style seems to me to be a future use
of the Booki/FM platform or experiences.

If anyone is interested in such things, do get in touch.

-martin







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> adam
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> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 10:08 -0600, Janet Swisher wrote:
>> I get the reasons for separating FM's publishing aspect from Booki's
>> content-development aspect. However, Joshua has a point that there is
>> a third aspect, which is the development and promotion of the booki
>> software itself. Where does that fit into this picture?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 2:29 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>         ok...so. to answer Lachlan...I mean the backend (/write) would
>>         be under
>>         booki.cc...the rest under www.flossmanuals.net ... but maybe i
>>         need to
>>         unpack this a little more to explain why I think this is an
>>         interesting
>>         option...
>>  
>>
>>         
>>         Material will get developed in booki but represented in the
>>         static
>>         ('readable' / 'stable') form under www.flossmanuals.net. Hence
>>         there
>>         might be other groups we collaborate with in booki to help
>>         them with
>>         their manuals...we become 'a legion'...or, to put it in
>>         slightly more
>>         contemporary keywords - 'a multitude' - that develops free
>>         documentation
>>         about free software and outputs this content to our own domain
>>         as well
>>         as helping others (other booki groups) develop books about
>>         free software
>>         that will appear under their own domain (eg. the school
>>         example, or
>>         perhaps we help the joomla group produce books for the joomla
>>         domain
>>         et)...
>>         
>>         
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