[FM Discuss] Now on! Wordpress Booksprint - please spread the word and some thoughts

[adam]

yo

On 08/16/2011 09:27 AM, mick fuzz wrote:
> http://blog.booki.cc/2011/08/wordpress-flossmanuals-book-jog/
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> Note the extended date, now till 5th September, after all there's no real
> rush and I'm going to be offline for a week from Thursday.
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> I'm going to try and involve more people locally by going and bothering
> local groups in Manchester, UK. Manchester Free Software group and
> Manchester Wordpress Users group tonight and tomorrow.
>
> Hopefully they'll help out. But do spread the word, then hopefully I won't
> have to write it by myself!
>
> I'm learning a few things about doing this slower remote book sprint and
> trying to co-ordinate it.
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> 1) having a tool that allows a few people to work on notes simultaneously
> like google docs would be very helpful for IRC type meetings - using the
> notes tab means you are likely to overwrite each other.

yeah man. we got this done but it is not merged. i will chase it up

> 2) Having some kind of welcome message or splash page for new people would
> be handy logging in when there is no one there - at the moment there is a
> temp chapter called - Read this if you are here for the book jog

how about if you were able to post announcements/procedures etc to here:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/wordpress/_info/



> 3) Watching the logs of who has done what and following it up with messages
> is a good idea - knowing more about messages would be good - this page could
> maybe do with updating to reflect that.

you can sub to the rss feed for the book:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/feeds/rss/book/wordpress

its linked from that _info page but could be more prominent


> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Booki-User-Guide/ch018_communicating/
> 4) Creating a structure with chapters, and some notes in there to encourage
> people to write it is good

yeah

adam


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> nice one
> Mick
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