[FM Discuss] back from hols and fm meet

[adam]

> Hi there,
>
> Hope you are good after your holidays. Why not take this opportunity to give
> up coffee? Apparently it's not very good for your chi - yin - yang balance -
> http://www.travisdharma.com/?p=75 (i'm great on the theory you know!)

i cant even read theory...not sure i have a chi yin or yang...dont know 
what you are saying...give up what? after the next coffee i try & read 
it again.

>
> On a different tip. I've got a couple of questions for you Adam which I hope
> can help us with the debate about the direction of FM and the meeting.
>
> Firstly, forgive me if I've forgotten this. Are you going to keep going with
> Booki, and book sprints? And keep leading on the development on that
> project. If so how does this effect the FM project and the relationship -
> how linked will they continue to be because of that shared software?

i will stay with fm, booki ad book sprints. i am not immediately 
stepping away from fm and not sure i would ever step completely away but 
i do want to decentralise fm. i am the central axis and i dont want to 
be any longer because i think its not in the best interests of me or fm. 
i think i would maintain some strong presence in fm for the next years 
but i would like us to start a strong plan for making fm a community run 
project instead of a single person running a community which is 
sometimes how it seems to me




>
> In fact - just to be devil's advocate. Say in a year FM decided that for us
> books weren't that important, it was the online free software manuals and
> the community that we wanted to concentrate on, and therefore if we decided
> to move to a new platform, or an existing one maintained by another
> foundation - say wikibooks for example. Is that something that you would
> want to avoid?
>
> And secondly, would you be up for sharing your own thoughts about what you
> think a transition would look like.
> Paid worker/s, possible sources of funding, tactics for maintaining
> momentum?
> I know that it's important that other people get involved and take
> ownership, but I think maybe that sharing would help it happen too.

i would rather discuss all this in a meeting. the bandwidth of email to 
recount 4 years of decisions and complex relationships, strategies etc 
is too much for email right now...


the meeting is the sharing moment for all this in my opinion.


adam







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> nice one!
> Mick
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