[FM Discuss] ars electronica help...

[helen varley jamieson]

hi adam & others,
having said that i could do this, i now realise that it requires more 
information about the project than i already know or can find online. 
i've listed the form fields that i need input for below, plus whoever is 
to be listed as "artists" needs to give their date of birth, 
nationality, bio (3000 characters, plus pdf & image can be uploaded), 
address & email (there is space in the project details for "people" that 
only requires names, then "artists" are entered individually on another 
form with more details).

if others can contribute in note-form to the areas below then i can 
write it all up & fill in the form. the deadline is 31st which is 
thursday so we need to get onto it if we are going to manage it.

perhaps we can continue off-list with those who can help?

h : )

_2000 character description_: what is the project about, which target 
group & who are the participants (the following draft is 1567 characters):

Booki represents a new approach to publishing, which can be described as 
social network publishing: people with a shared interest use the Booki 
platform to collaborate online to create open textbooks and any other 
publication you can think of. Booki facilitates the production of books 
through simple and effective book production tools. With Booki you can 
write a book by yourself or with others, discuss your views, seek 
assistance from others, translate or reuse content and publish completed 
works.

Booki is a purpose-built open source application which was initially 
developed as the engine for FLOSS Manuals, an online creation platform 
and repository for manuals about open source software. All of the 
existing FLOSS Manuals have been successfully migrated to Booki and 
there are now hundreds of people collaborating in the creation of all 
kinds of books, from software manuals to fiction and poetry, using 
Booki. The project is being promoted and disseminated through Book 
Sprints - one-week intensive sessions to collaboratively create a book - 
and the Bookimobile - a van containing everything required to produce books.

"The new system called "Booki" embodies the skills, tools, and 
experiences that the FLOSS Manuals community has gained over the last 
couple of years to create a new kind of publishing. Booki changes all by 
enabling the production of books on dramatically faster cycles and 
reducing the obstacles that get in the way of community and open 
publishing."

Chris Hofmann, Director Engineering
Mozilla (Firefox) 
<http://www.mozilla.org/>http://blog.booki.cc/testimonials/



keywords (2010 characters)
social networking, publishing, collaboration, book, manual, Booki, 
Bookimobile, FLOSS, open source, FLOSS Manuals, textbooks,

objectives (2010 characters)
- to facilitate easy online collaborative creation and publication of books
- to provide a platform for FLOSS Manuals
- to experiment with new forms of authoring and publishing

people (2010 characters)
- Adam Hyde
-Aleksander Erkalovic
- Douglas Bagnall
- john curwood
- who else?

lessons learned (2010 characters)
-

solutions (2010 characters)
-

statement of reasons (2010 characters)
-

planned use of prize money (2010 characters)
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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen at creative-catalyst.com
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
http://www.upstage.org.nz
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