[FM Discuss] Stats needed for FLOSS Manuals presentation at Debian conference

[Lachlan Musicman]

there was pen translation tools as well :)

On Thursday, July 29, 2010, Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> In April, Anne and I used this list of sprints in our TXLF
> presentation. I think there have been a few more since then
> (Collaboration 2, CiviCRM 2):
>
> July 2008: Inkscape, Paris
> Aug 2008: OLPC/SugarLabs, Austin
> Nov 2008: Internet Censorship, upstate New York
> Feb 2009: Digital Foundations, NYC
> Mar 2009: Firefox, Palm Springs
> Mar 2009: Introduction to the Command Line, Boston
> Apr 2009: PureData, NYC & Berlin
> May 2009: CiviCRM, Truckee, CA
> Dec 2009: Etoys, virtual
> Jan 2010: Collaboration, Berlin
> April 2010: Mifos, virtual
>
> It would be nice to have a plain-old-wiki page to maintain this list.
>
> --Janet
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:49 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> hey
>>
>> we dont really have much stats. i havent counted but i think we have
>> about 2200 reg users. 330 on the list. i think something like 50 manuals
>> on the front page en.flossmanuals.net and about 40 more not on the front
>> page (being worked on)
>>
>> i think we have about 16 manuals in farsi, 11 in dutch, 27 in finnish
>>
>> fa.flossmanuals.net
>> nl.flossmanuals.net
>> fi.flossmanuals.net
>>
>> upcoming (within 4 weeks) is fr.flossmanuals.net
>>
>> also in the works (slow) is es.flossmanuals.net
>>
>>
>> sundry completed manuals in arabic, burmese, spanish, russian, german,
>> french, nepalese, indonesian. greek, hindi and others...
>>
>> check out the hindi version of audacity..looks cool:
>> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/Audacity_hi/Introduction
>>
>> when doing demos i think showing things like this or burmese/farsi gets
>> people excited. (for burmese you will need a font that supports it)
>>
>>
>> we have about 19 books i think in english although i havent counted
>> recently.
>>
>> i think we have done about 16 sprints +/-
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 17:49 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
>>> I'm wrapping up planning for the presentation that three of us are
>>> making in New York city about FLOSS Manuals:
>>>
>>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/FLOSSManuals/Flossmanualspresentation
>>>
>>> It would be nice to put up a slide to show the spread and success of
>>> FLOSS Manuals. I really want to keep the talk informal and do just two
>>> slides. The first would be the home page (and maybe we could show a
>>> representative book page as another slide). The other slide I want would
>>> display statistics that I hope would impress the audience, such as:
>>>
>>> * Number of members of this mailing list (over a thousand now)
>>>
>>> * Number of books on the site
>>>
>>> * Number of translations
>>>
>>> * Number of sprints held
>>>
>>> And other things you'd like the conference attendees to hear about. I
>>> could get some of these stats by counting, but I might miss examples.
>>> Can someone furnish them?
>>>
>>> Andy
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