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[adam]

On 07/07/2011 05:19 PM, Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra wrote:
> 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 ?

hmmm good quesiton......i think we make the french booki and then 
decide how to combine them...

adam


>
> 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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>> Tomi Toivio
>> Open Source Coordinator
>> http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
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