[FM Discuss] PRESS RELEASE : An Open Web

[John Curwood]

Hi Adam,

While reading the HTML version on the openweb.flossmanuals.net  
website, I noticed that the links to the footnotes are broken. In the  
"The web is closed" chapter (http://new.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/ 
index) the link to footnote no.1 points to - http:// 
new.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/the-thunderclouds#InsertNoteID_9 and  
comes up with an error when clicked on.  When I tested out the links  
in booki.flossmanuals.net/ an-open-web/edit and click on view for  
"The web is closed" the links all work (e.g. http:// 
booki.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/edit/#InsertNoteID_9).

I'm guessing the original chapter title for "the web is closed" was  
"The thunderclouds" and this is still being used to generate the  
footnote links when publishing the book.

Don't mean to be a pain, but having spent a lot of time playing with  
footnotes for a previous Tutorial I wanted to try them out when I saw  
them in use in Open Web.

Cheers,

John


On 29/01/2011, at 6:31 AM, adam hyde wrote:

> below is a much better release. please pass it around.
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> An Open Web Book Launched at Transmediale 2011
>
> January 28, 2011 - Berlin – Today the book, An Open Web, is released
> for download and sale on the Web. Written in 5 days by 6
> collaborators, An Open Web book sprint lead and Flossmanuals founder
> Adam Hyde said, “Zero to book in 5 days. It was an intensive process
> and loads of fun. The collaborators  met 9am Monday with no more text
> written than the title and 5 days later published the book.”
>
> The authors summarize the book:
>
> The Web was meant to be Everything. As the Internet as a whole assumes
> an increasingly commanding role as the technology of global commerce
> and communication, the World Wide Web from its very inception was
> designed to be a free and open medium through which human knowledge is
> created, accessed and exchanged. But, that Web is in danger of coming
> to a close. This book shows what is happening and how you can play an
> important role in keeping the web open.
>
> The process for making the book is known as a 'Book Sprint.' It is an
> intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of
> books.  It took five people and locked them in a room in Berlin’s CHB
> for five days with the goal to produce a book with the sole guiding
> meme being the title – An Open Web. The authors had to create the
> concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days.
>
> An Open Web is written by Alejandra Perez Nuñez (Chile), Christopher
> Adams (Fabricatorz), Bassel Safadi (Fabricatorz), Mick Fuzz (UK), Jon
> Phillips (Fabricatorz), and Michelle Thorne (DE) with Sprint
> Facilitation by Adam Hyde (NZ).  Several others collaborated from the
> Web including Aleksandar Erkalovic, Barry Threw, and Mike Linksvayer.
> The process opened up a new and networked discussion focusing on a new
> vocabulary about the Open Web. As the transmediale.11 publication, the
> Book Sprint is based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats to
> write a book about the festival's theme.
>
> The concept of web in the book is not only about the Open Web but it
> is made by the Open Web. The authors state that this book is “Open Web
> publishing at its best - written in 100% free software and open for
> anyone to contribute.” The authors invite anyone to improve the book
> and make future revisions freely.
>
> An Open Web available NOW: http://openweb.flossmanuals.net.
>
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> -- 
> vote for booki in the Open Web Awards!
>
> Booki (the latest FM project - http://www.booki.cc - a collaborative
> publishing platform) is in the final of the Open Web Awards.
> Great! We are 1 of 3 projects. If we win we get 5000 which we will use
> to do a code sprint on a tropical island somewhere ;)
>
> please please please register :
> http://www.drumbeat.org/user/register
>
> and vote for us by visiting this page and clicking on the 'vote'  
> link (top right):
> http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing
>
> and pass this around!!!! :)
>
> Adam Hyde
> Founder FLOSS Manuals &
> Booki Project Manager
>
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