[FM Discuss] questions about place

[adam]

im sorry but im not sure why anyone might believe that we would produce
software that wasnt free software...

maybe thats why i didnt understand the question...

adam


On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:34 -0600, Janet Swisher wrote:
> 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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