[FM Discuss] floss manuals and microblogging

[adam hyde]

hey

so. one thing that fm labs has been working on is integrating
microblogging into booki. Microblogging is systems like status.net or
twitter that enable short messages to be sent between people, to groups,
and (in the case of status.net) across social networks.

Yesterday Aco finished the basic implementation of it. We need to push
it further but the potential is extremely interesting. Consider, for
example, that from FLOSS Manuals you can use hash tags to announce book
sprints, call for participation, search for people interested in
contributing to a book etc...then also consider that you could message
from one booki install to another booki install ... 

so we have now a very basic system. it has a long way to go but it is in
its basic state. the good news is that the open web book sprint is
happening now with some of the core people from status.net... so we have
some good advisors :)

anyways...i will post more next week on this. also Aco needs some time
to push it further, so don't expect too much just yet...but its on its
way :)

adam




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