[FM Discuss] the latest newsletter...

Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra elisa.dcg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 08:19:42 PDT 2011


Hi Tomi,

We don't know about the activity of Finnish FM. Put it on this list at
least :) Also i have the same question : add news about french
activities on this blog ?

Elisa



2011/7/7 Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net>:
> 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=/
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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/) 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).
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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-vi/
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bypassing-es/
>> 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/
>> The first FLOSS Manual to be put in the Kindle store was managed by James
>> Simmons (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/
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>>
>> 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.net where
>> 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
>> --
>>
>> --
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>> Founder, FLOSS Manuals
>> Project Manager, Booki
>> Book Sprint Facilitator
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