[FM Discuss] the latest newsletter...

Thu Jul 7 07:54:20 PDT 2011

I was just thinking I should translate these newsletters from now on and
publish them in the Finnish FM blog. Maybe add news about Finnish activities
as well. What do people think?

2011/7/4 adam <adam at flossmanuals.net>

> hi,
>
> The 5th Newsletter from FLOSS Manuals!
>
> You might have thought we were asleep, tired, or retired since the last
> Newsletter was in early May. No no...far from it. We have been too busy to
> send out trifling things like newsletters ;) News is big in FM land - we
> have had something of a change in our operations with the addition of some
> amazing new tools to help collaboration and many many other things... this
> is what we have been up to (in part):
>
>
> 1. FM - Social Network for Free Software Documentation?
> 2. New Book Tools
> 3. GSoC Doc Camp
> 4. FM @ Libre Software Meeting
> 5. French Book Sprints
> 6. Completed How to Bypass Internet Censorship translations
> 7. Translations Linked now from www
> 8. First Book in Kindle Store
> 9. Community Translation - Cómo Hacer Una Actividad Sugar
> 10. Admin tools upgrade
> 11. Vietnamese and Russian FM coming...
> 12. Server Upgrade
> 13. ODT output
>
>
> ------------------------------**---------------------
> FM- Social Network for Free Software Documentation?
> ------------------------------**---------------------
> FM (FLOSS Manuals) is very happy to announce the addition of some 'social
> network' services to our site. We have added micromessaging to
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net
>
> You maybe familiar with this kind of tool through services like Status.net
> and Twitter. It enables people to send direct messages to each other, follow
> people, message groups etc. We have added this to FM but with the aim of
> improving collaboration to produce free manuals about free softwae. The
> tools therefore have a few nice features that help people work together
> specifically to make manuals/books, namely :
>
> * ability to send attachments (images/odt files/pdf/ puredata
> patches/csound files etc) via direct message
>
> * 'snippet' messaging - we have developed a WYSIWYG editor into the
> messaging system so people can send snippets (content) to each other for
> proofing/translating/checking etc
>
> * workflow integration - snippets can be sent directly from the editor in
> FLOSS Manuals
>
> It is very exciting news - it makes FM more fun and aids
> collaboration/productivity. We hope more people will feel they can join in
> with the community through these tools. We also hope that the snippet
> messaging will help lower the threshold of participation and open the doors
> for more people to contribute to the manuals.
>
> The tools are also now also integrated into the book production platform
> 'Booki' which is available for anyone to download and install. This really
> alters the paradigm a lot - moving Booki and FM into the area of Social
> Production Network...very exciting!
>
> Join FM now and become part of a vibrant community of people that love to
> help free software:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/**accounts/signin/?redirect=/<http://booki.flossmanuals.net/accounts/signin/?redirect=/>
>
> Please help us spread the word - send this information to anyone you can
> think of to help us grow the community.
>
> Many thanks to Tuukkah/Seravo, Aco and Internews France for helping realise
> this exciting new development.
>
>
> --------------
> New Book Tools
> --------------
> In addition to the above we have added new tools to FLOSS Manuals. They
> include:
>
> * side by side highlighted 'diff' for comparing chapter revisions
>
> * an info page for each manual/book which includes information such as
> recent activity, who has contributed, when the book was created, who created
> it etc
>
> * a draft page to view works in progress
>
> * 'view original' feature to assist translators
>
> * admin controls for each book
>
> * customisable 'status' settings for chapters
>
> * attribution management tools
>
> ...and more...for a full break down see:
>
> http://lists.flossmanuals.net/**pipermail/discuss-**
> flossmanuals.net/2011-July/**006018.html<http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2011-July/006018.html>
>
> Many many thanks to Aco for doing all this work and bringing Booki and FM
> forward another huge step.
>
>
> -------------
> GSoC Doc Camp
> -------------
> FM will be collaborating with Google Summer of Code to produce a GSoC
> Documentation Camp. 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).
>
> Anyone can participate - there will be a call out for applications.and
> something like 3-5 projects will be selected for doing a 'quick start' Book
> Sprint. Then there will also be a call for individuals. 25 people to
> participate it total plus a facilitator and 2 guest speakers. Its a mix of
> unconference and sprint. Anyone can apply as an individual to come. There
> will also the  possibility to apply for travel to be covered (food/accom
> will be covered)...
>
> Stay tuned...
>
>
> ---------------------------
> FM @ Libre Software Meeting
> ---------------------------
> http://2011.rmll.info/?lang=en (July 0-14, Strasbourg, France).
>
> FLOSS Manuals English and French crews will be meeting to make Free Manuals
> (Books) about Free Software and give them away. Adam Hyde will travel by the
> Bookimobile (http://blog.booki.cc/2010/11/**booki-mobile-takes-to-the-**
> road/ <http://blog.booki.cc/2010/11/booki-mobile-takes-to-the-road/>) to
> Strasbourg and meet up with the French FM crew. Elisa de Castro Guerra and
> Adam will then do a presentation on the 11th (http://2011.rmll.info/FLOSS-
> **Manual-Francophone-une-**association-qui-promouvoit-la-**
> documentation-libre-sur-les-**logiciels?lang=fr<http://2011.rmll.info/FLOSS-Manual-Francophone-une-association-qui-promouvoit-la-documentation-libre-sur-les-logiciels?lang=fr>
> ).
>
> The books will be made by hand on site with the Bookimobile and given away
> for free. Supported by Organisation int. de la Francophonie.
>
>
> -------------------
> French Book Sprints
> -------------------
> This week FLOSS Manual Francophone is hosting a Book Sprint on the Desktop
> Publishing application Scribus. Strasbourg, June 6-10.
>
> At the same time FLOSS Manual Francophone will also translate the Open Web
> book (http://openweb.flossmanuals.**net <http://openweb.flossmanuals.net>
> ).
>
> The finished books will be made onsite at the Libre Software Meeting.
>
> Supported by Organisation int. de la Francophonie.
>
>
> ------------------------------**--------------------------
> Completed How to Bypass Internet Censorship translations
> ------------------------------**--------------------------
> Now in Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/**bypassing-ru/<http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-ru/>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/**bypassing-vi/<http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-vi/>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/**bypassing-es/<http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-es/>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/**bypassing-ru/<http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-ru/>
>
>
> ------------------------------**--
> Translations Linked now from www
> ------------------------------**--
> Some work to the publishing process (software) means we are easily able now
> to link translations from the Read page of the English FLOSS Manuals (
> http://www.flossmanuals.net). We will roll this feature set out to all
> other FLOSS Manuals languages in the coming months.
>
>
> --------------------------
> First Book in Kindle Store
> --------------------------
> http://www.amazon.com/Make-**Your-Own-Sugar-Activities/dp/**B00587ZAOG/<http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Sugar-Activities/dp/B00587ZAOG/>
> The first FLOSS Manual to be put in the Kindle store was managed by James
> Simmons (http://www.amazon.com/James-**Simmons/e/B005197ZTY/<http://www.amazon.com/James-Simmons/e/B005197ZTY/>
> ).
>
> James blogged about how to get a Booki produced EPUB (an electronic book
> format) 'kindle store worthy' - http://blog.booki.cc/2011/06/**
> creating-books-for-the-kindle-**store-using-booki/<http://blog.booki.cc/2011/06/creating-books-for-the-kindle-store-using-booki/>
>
>
> ------------------------------**------------------------
> Community Translation - Cómo Hacer Una Actividad Sugar
> ------------------------------**------------------------
> There was a lot of community translation activity these last weeks and the
> Make Your Own Sugar Activities book (mentioned above) was translated into
> Spanish and also released onto the kindle store :)
> http://www.amazon.com/Hacer-**Actividad-Sugar-Spanish-ebook/**
> dp/B0058DBRVA<http://www.amazon.com/Hacer-Actividad-Sugar-Spanish-ebook/dp/B0058DBRVA>
>
> You cna also get them both for free of course but we recommend you buy it
> if you want to support James and the crew for all the good work they did on
> these fantastic books.
>
>
> -------------------
> Admin tools upgrade
> -------------------
> We did a lot of work on the backend of the "READ" part of FLOSS Manuals.
> That is the site you probably know most - http://www.flossmanuals.netwhere the stable form of the manuals are accessed and read. Many thanks once
> again to Sourcefabric for helping us with this, especially Sava Tatić and
> Sava Tatić.
>
> The development means we can very easily deploy other language sites.
>
>
> ------------------------------**------
> Vietnamese and Russian FM coming...
> ------------------------------**------
> In about 3 weeks...after some sun...
>
>
> --------------
> Server Upgrade
> --------------
> We hired some fancy new servers because our others were struggling a bit.
> We are particularly happy to have a quite powerful new machine for Objavi
> (the export/render engine for Booki) which will speed up rendering time of
> PDF etc
>
>
> ----------
> ODT output
> ----------
> With the new server online we re-enabled ODT (Open Document Text format)
> rendering. That means you can export Books now from FLOSS Manuals via
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net (see the export tab for the book you want)
> and create word processor documents that can be opened in Open Office/Libre
> Office etc...
>
>
> okedoke....enough for now...
>
> adam
> --
>
> --
> Adam Hyde
> Founder, FLOSS Manuals
> Project Manager, Booki
> Book Sprint Facilitator
> mobile :+ 49 177 4935122
> identi.ca : @eset
> booki.flossmanuals.net : @adam
>
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Tomi Toivio
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tomi at flossmanuals.net
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