[FM Discuss] vote for booki!

[adam]

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:02 -0500, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Voted and blogged (and got the tshirt, ha ha)! Great news. It looks
> like this project is different from the first one we voted for, is
> that right? So vote again even if you think you already did.

yes vote vote vote!

> 
> Janet and I have speculated you'd either end up with a bookmobile or
> one of those highspeed book scanners. Or both! I'd like to hear more
> about the binding techniques and so on. Also how could you incorporate
> ebook distribution into the book mobile? 
> 

i think there will be three laptops...maybe i could make a booki
kiosk...not sure if i have time but it would be easy...maybe someone
wants to make the web interface for it? it would only need to be a
dynamically generated list of books which link to objavi to gen the
epubs...then people can download to usb drives onsite or (via a wireless
network) direct to their ipad/android etc...ah man...this could work, if
only i had more time.... i think doug has a call in objavi that will
list all the books...if we had that i can put it on an old laptop of
mine, perhaps build a small plinth and have it as the 'fm ebook kiosk' -
a bit of paint and it would look better than the shuttleworth ubuntu
burner thingy ;)

so, actually I am still chasing 2k (euro) - if anyone has ideas. I have
gone to the bank for a loan to cover it, but if we can squeeze 2
thousand from somewhere that would be excellento.


adam


> Thanks for the update. 
> Anne
> 
> Anne Gentle 
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> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> wrote:
>         hey
>         
>         so....i have been offline a bit running around doing this,
>         doing
>         that...off the this n thats there are 2 that might interest
>         fm-ers
>         
>         number 1 is...well, you might have heard we got booki into the
>         Drumbeat
>         Open Web Award...ok. Thats great news! Well, now we need to
>         get votes
>         since there are 3 projects we stand a very good chance to win
>         the 5000
>         cash (which we will use for a code sprint)
>         
>         so...if you want to vote go here:
>         http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing
>         
>         register and vote!
>         
>         and please spread the word and get others to do the same. we
>         need as
>         many votes as possible...
>         
>         ok..number 2 ...i have been working on a project for Drumbeat.
>         FM should
>         have a presence there and so I slipped some proposals to a few
>         people
>         not knowing if they would be into it or not but i thought i
>         should give
>         it a best shot although that was tricky as i have been working
>         hard
>         renovating and moving recently :) (and i also had a german
>         visa
>         application this week to attend to which i just found out
>         today was
>         successful :) . Apparently Mozilla, CiviCRM, francophonie.org
>         and
>         iCommons thought it was a good idea and so I am happy to
>         announce the
>         first ever FLOSS Manuals Book Mobile!
>         
>         Its basically a van full of the stuff you need to make books,
>         modelled
>         on the archive.org book mobile:
>         http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php
>         
>         i will drive it to drumbeat (and to other events after
>         drumbeat and in
>         2011)...
>         
>         i will work with some fm friends in barcelona and we will make
>         and give
>         away free manuals on free software...i am hoping to give away
>         300 in 3
>         days. that might be optimistic but lets see how it goes. i
>         also hope we
>         will have enough people locally to translate a book or two to
>         spanish/catalan at drumbeat using booki and make those books
>         immediately
>         with the book mobile...
>         
>         i will send more info on the book mobile. its an exciting
>         project both
>         for fm and for promoting free software... i hope others might
>         consider
>         copying the idea - it would be good to have a fleet of fm book
>         mobiles
>         for promoting free softwares at events...park it outside your
>         local
>         expensive and exclusive proprietary software event and give
>         away free
>         manuals on free software! (we can give away any info on free
>         software,
>         not just books...)
>         
>         so....anyways....fm book mobile #1 is forthcoming...i will fwd
>         more info
>         as we get it together.
>         
>         :)
>         
>         adam
>         
>         
>         
>         --
>         Adam Hyde
>         Founder FLOSS Manuals &
>         Booki Project Manager
>         
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>         Email : adam at flossmanuals.net
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>         
>         
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