[FM Discuss] questions about place

[Janet Swisher]

What he said. Booki as software, not just booki as a service. Download,
discuss, contribute, etc. for the software itself. Is that part of the
picture?

By analogy, identi.ca is a service that uses the FLOS software StatusNet.
You can either download the StatusNet software, or use it as a hosted
service. My thought was that flossmanuals.net would be one of potentially
many services that use booki software, possibly as a hosted service. (I
don't to push this analogy too far, as StatusNet is also a business that
provides customization and support, which is a whole other issue that is off
the track of the current discussion.) My main question is: is booki just a
service, or is it also a software package?

--Janet


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had thought that I had remembered from a previous discussion that booki
> as a platform (not as a service) was also going to be offered as FLOSS.  If
> this is the case, the question is how does that goal fit into the rest of
> the picture?
>
> As for your explanation, that helps to clarify a lot, and I like the
> vision.  It makes more sense in perspective.  (You should probably give a
> fuller perspective at the outset when asking complicated questions ;)
>
> JF
>
>
> 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...
>>
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
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