[FM Discuss] update

Mon Jun 21 07:01:33 PDT 2010

Hi!

so couple of words.... unlike adam, i am not so much into specific deadlines :)
there is a list of things that has to be done. our main concern is not to
destroy current books and bother people with the transition. idea is to
make transition to the new system as painless as possible. so until
all the items on the list are finished there will be no transition.

also, this will be important release. a lot of the internal structure
of booki is
going to be changed and couple of important features will be introduced.
because of the existing user and book base on booki, all conversion and
testing will have to be done on the separate installation (things will
not be visible
on booki.cc). also, we will have to convert existing data to the new
system. this will
all take some extra time, but we knew that since we allowed people to
use beta version :)

some of the things we will do.
 - transfer users and books
 - implement versioning
 - implement categories
 - permissions
 - finally improve - html editor, image insert, image modify
 - internationalization
 - email notification
 - some administrative stuff in the background that is important for us
 - and couple of more issues (maaaaaaaybe basic translation)

so, hope we will manage to finish it all in some normal deadline. i am excited
about this release, and if everything works ok i hope people will also be
excited :)

if you have some issues, something you do not like, or would like to see, this
is the moment to complain!

aco

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> * FM MIGRATION
> FM is migrating to Booki (as mentioned in many past posts). For those
> that are not familiar with the story - fm currently runs on TWiki and we
> built a new platform (Booki) to replace it. You can see Booki here -
> http://www.booki.cc
>
> Booki will be where you write FM manuals and hence we will migrate all
> the user accounts to booki when we close the TWiki install. We will also
> migrate all the manuals of course. Aco is working a lot on Booki to make
> this all happen, we hoped it would be this week but Aco got excited and
> is adding some new features and testing etc so it will be next week.
>
> So, while Booki is where the books will be written, en.flossmanuals.net
> will not be managed by Booki but will be managed by another software
> called "Booki Publisher" (currently ready and you can see it here with
> Fm skins - http://clean.flossmanuals.net/). Booki Publisher will pull
> manuals from booki and enable users to read them in nice templated
> fashion, add comments, remix manuals etc. It will also have a blog etc.
> There are some nice new features such as css control of the look and
> feel of remixed PDF, a new chat widget, much better admin tools, also
> the architecture is very simple to extend so I hope we can get more
> people developing widgets and plugins (Booki Publisher is deliberately
> written in PHP will a flat file architecture to assist this). Booki
> Publisher is a standalone software, also released under GPL and
> available for anyone wanting to set up a site similar to FM for
> publishing books produced in Booki.
>
> For the FM community the fm website will look the same, and the major
> change will be that booki is a better tool for collaborating - it looks
> different but is easier and it effectively gives the contributors
> ("you") and maintainers more control. The process for publishing to fm
> will work pretty much the same - anyone can export a FM manual in a book
> formatted pdf/epub etc from booki but to publish to the fm site you need
> to ask John (fm admin) to do it via a booki communication channel (chat
> etc) or the fm mailing list.
>
> All softwares - booki, booki publisher and objavi (the pdf generation
> engine) are free softwares developed by
> fm...http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net).
>
> So, thats a little bit of whats happening with migration...more as we
> go...
>
> * BOOK SPRINTS
> While booki is still in beta form it is getting some use...it is being
> used this week by a group of artists in for a book sprint in Latvia
> (http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/herbologies-expedition-kurzeme/), a
> group of artists in Berlin working on an urban mapping project, and for
> an update of Collaborative Futures (I will post more info on this
> shortly). I think they all use CC licenses (Booki is _only_ for the
> production of freely licensed works)
>
> * PROCESSING BOOK SPRINT
> There is a book sprint in August for processing in French. I dont know
> the dates yet but will post.
>
> * MOZILLA COMMUNITY MEETING
> I am going to the Mozilla Community meeting in a few weeks. I think I am
> doing two presentations about book sprints, fm, and booki. Will write a
> report when I get back.
>
> * Core Funding
> Currently I am looking at how to get a little core funding for FM. We
> havent ever asked for any and we have been doing pretty well for a long
> time but i think its about time we stabilised things a little
> financially. We actually dont need a lot so I am first approaching HIVOS
> (http://www.hivos.nl) and then I will approach some other orgs depending
> on how that goes. I am also thinking about approaching some of the
> monster orgs we work with for some sponsorship, but lets try Hivos first
> and see how we go. Also, if anyone has ideas for core funding or wants
> to make my life simple and write fm a cheque then drop me a line :)
>
> :)
>
> adam
>
>
>
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