[FM Discuss] Draft of Data Journalism Handbook written in 48 hours

[adam]

well not to put too fine a point on it why should we take open data 
seriously if 'they' dont take free software and free content 
seriously...i think i wait for them to come to us

adam


On 11/11/2011 01:10 PM, Rolf Kleef wrote:
> We've had a look at flossmanuals/booki at Open Goverment Data Camp in
> Warsaw, as a candidate environment for some open data manuals we'd like
> to see.
>
> Not sure if the Open Knowledge Foundation people and the Floss Manuals
> people in Berlin know each other, might be good to sit down with eg.
> Friedrich and Jonathan, to get them up to speed :-)
>
> (There definitely is a desire in the open data movement to work more
> with open source tools, we're too much depending on stuff like Google
> Refine, Fusion Tables, Docs, and such).
>
> --Rolf.
>
> On 11/11/11 12:16, Daniel James wrote:
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>>> i believe the book is going into www.booki.cc or fm not sure which...
>>
>> I was at the Mozilla Festival with Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric. Adam
>> T. tried to persuade them to use Booki, but they were very insistent
>> about using Google Docs instead:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/18YOaGj0LyRn6x1tcCH2wIWHYqwnMiDCGInbVHe210rM/edit?authkey=CLrotIQH&hl=en_US&authkey=CLrotIQH
>>
>> I personally find Google Docs very clunky for editing a long work,
>> compared to my experience with Booki.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Daniel
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