[FM Discuss] The great OLPC/Sugar manual Booki migration begins

[adam]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 16:17 +0100, Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:47 PM, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > All the Sugar manuals we wrote using FLOSS Manuals have to be migrated
> > from the current TWiki site to the new Booki site at:
> > 
> > http://booki.flossmanuals.net
> 
> Does this apply only to finished manuals, or do we need to import "work in progress" too?

alles :)

(beware i am working a little on the fm.booki server at the moment.
importing will work but dont try and edit for the next few hours)


adam


> 
> Rita
> > 
> > If you are the maintainer of one of these books you can easily copy
> > the book over by visiting the site, getting an account, and doing
> > three things:
> > 
> > 1).  Join the Group "One Laptop per Child/Sugar Labs".
> > 
> > 2).  Import the book using the "My Manuals" page.
> > 
> > 3).  Add the book to the Group.
> > 
> > I could import all the books myself, but that would make me the chief
> > maintainer of the books, an honor I deserve about as much as Bristol
> > Palin deserved to win on Dancing With The Stars.  If, after a
> > reasonable amount of time (in other words, we have to migrate the book
> > or risk losing it entirely) no maintainer comes forward I will import
> > the books remaining.
> > 
> > As before, anyone can update any book.  The maintainer does not have
> > any special privileges as far as I can see.
> > 
> > Some advice:
> > 
> > If you want to rename your book rename it in the TWiki Table of
> > Contents page *before* you do your import.
> > 
> > I don't know how this affects translations of books yet.  I would
> > guess that these books stay where they are for the time being.  I have
> > brought up the question on the FM mailing list.
> > 
> > James Simmons
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