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

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:45, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> there was pen translation tools as well :)

Which was in June 2009

cheers
L.

>
> 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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