[FM Discuss] some news and things

[adam]

hey

first - apologies to Janet and Anne for not getting the newsletter out 
in time to promote their openhelp event. Very very sorry for this. It 
was entirely my fault that this fell off the todo list. I hope it was a 
great event (reading reports about it made it sounded very cool - 
friendly and informative).

So, next up...the fm admin tool functionality and css has been upgraded. 
I would *really* love it if those that have maintainer access could blog 
about their manuals. Its about time the blog reflected opinions and 
experiences other than mine...the blog is actually now empty. I backed 
up the old blog and will put it online as an archive somewhere for 
'historical' reference. So we need to get new posts! post away....no 
need to ask permission, just do it.

Also its now much easier to set up new language sites and we have new 
language managers for Vietnamese and Russian FM sites - more on this 
next week.

There is much other new but I want to hold off a bit for some of it. To 
much to do at the moment and not enough time to report the various items 
with their due attention. One little bit of news I do want to share with 
you now is that FM will be collaborating with Google Summer of Code to 
do a Doc Camp. This will happen just before the GSoC Mentors Summit and 
will be held at the Google HQ.

Its pretty big news for us actually and its an attempt to push free 
documentation ahead in projects that need help. Its also an attempt to 
help grow this sector (if we can call it that yet).

Anyways. Its pretty cool and I will post more info about it soon.

I will send out a newsletter next week - please send me any items to 
include in it.

adam



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