[FM Discuss] federated publishing

Fri Oct 7 20:24:32 PDT 2011

Very intersesting, indeed.
It also reminds me of the "re-narration
Web"<http://janastu.org/technoscience/index.php/Alipi>t (which was
presented at RMLL 2011, Strasbourg by Dinesh ),
a project <http://a11y.in/><http://janastu.org/technoscience/index.php/Alipi>for
a decentralised and federated mode of translation.

For the text,
I'm just discovering the project, which sounds very cool.
One point : I'm surely missing some context, but I'm not sure I understand
the question of new proprietary future // proprietorship.  "This
proprietorship is to be taken in the broadest possible understanding".
What is  this property refering to ? is it a critic of traditionnal form or
a new definition ?
I guess it is also my approximate understanding of english,

anyway, cheers to this project.
it seem that this recent meeting was great !

Anne

2011/10/7 Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com>

> I just found out about Ward Cunningham's latest project, which is a
> federated wiki:
> http://wardcunningham.github.com/
>
> I find it interesting how his ideas are similar to, and different
> from, those expressed in booki. If you are talking about federation
> and wikis, someone may bring this up, so good to be prepared.
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:27 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I am presenting Booki and FM at the Frankfurt book fair and put together
> a
> > text as a starting point of what I wanted to say...included below...any
> > comments/critique welcome...
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> > Federated Publishing
> > Instead of talking about new book publishing models and moving
> incrementally
> > within or slightly without its walls lets try something else, place
> > ourselves in a space completely *inside* the space where content is as
> far
> > as feasibly possible free (libre) - one such space for this I would like
> to
> > call 'federated publishing'.
> >
> > Federated Publishing is not a 'model' it is in fact a network of models -
> > enabling multiple approaches of content production, distribution and
> > consumption. It is a space enabled by four core elements - digitally
> > networked corpora, interoperable libre licensed content, federated open
> book
> > production and 'publishing' platforms, and people. It is a space that
> > enables traditional established book production techniques but fuels new
> > approaches which are radically different - a space where books have no
> > authors, attribution is not really anything anyone cares about, quality
> is
> > high, books live - constantly updated and improved, books magically
> migrate
> > across languages, high quality text books are produced in exceedingly
> short
> > times measured in minutes, hours or days, books have no publisher but
> > multiple channels and multiple contexts, content is shifted between
> contexts
> > rapidly and easily, people get paid, reputations get made, economies
> exist.
> >
> > This is not pie in the sky. This exists now. FLOSS Manuals has
> inadvertently
> > found itself tinkering inside of publishing for the past 5 years. We have
> > broken many established practices because we didn't know any better. We
> have
> > developed tools that don't imagine a future but were built to provide
> > sensible pathways to what we wanted to achieve. We now surface after 5
> years
> > of this, look around and realise we are simultaneously inside and outside
> > publishing. We articulate this as 'Federated Publishing'.
> >
> > Federated Publishing is a term born from Federated Social Network jargon,
> > which itself is born out of a need to transform proprietary network
> services
> > into a modern Free Software critique. Federated Publishing is not in
> itself
> > a critique, it is an active and vibrant practice - but it is born from
> this
> > ideological legacy.
> >
> > Publishing is trying to invent a new proprietary future. This
> proprietorship
> > is to be taken in the broadest possible understanding. It is not just a
> > question of closed copyright finding new distribution formats and
> economic
> > models, it is a question of domain branding strategies within free
> culture
> > and the unwillingness to make content interoperable on a technical,
> legal,
> > or social cultural level.
> >
> > We are tied to the need to tie ourselves to the content we produce. We
> > enable the commit bit whenever we can by default and it is a tiring and
> > resource consuming strategy that retards the development of culture and
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Federated Publishing is a future we are working in now at FLOSS Manuals.
> We
> > actively encourage anyone to make a book, chapter, edit. We encourage
> anyone
> > to fork a book, take it to their own domain, translate it, reuse it,
> break
> > it, voice multiple discordant positions and concerns within the same
> covers,
> > break the use of 'I' as a dominant identifier for a single individual
> > author, take the book without changing a word and make your a million. No
> > problems.
> >
> > We aim to generate federated interoperable corpora enabled by common
> sense
> > technology and an increasing consciousness that a book is 'ours' to do as
> > 'I', you, them, or we want. We are starting with free manuals and aim to
> > provide an example of what is possible within and between domains.
> >
> > We currently work like this. All the content is free, we use one license
> to
> > increase interoperability and we discourage talk of licenses to encourage
> > productivity, we provide all the tools we make for free and make it easy
> for
> > you to take anything you want from us. Our website templates, books,
> > community, platform...whatever you like.
> >
> > In this environment books transform - they migrate across contexts, they
> are
> > translated, they are kept alive, they are used the world over to help
> people
> > learn about free software, they are of extremely good quality, they
> provide
> > economies for those that wish to pursue the seemingly radical practices.
> >
> > Sound impossible to have an economy here? Another free culture revolution
> > without a strategy to pay the rent? Consider Marshall McLuhans
> astonishing
> > vision :
> >
> > “Instead of going out and buying a packaged book of which there have been
> > five thousand copies printed, you will go to the telephone, describe your
> > interests, your needs, your problems … and they at once Xerox with the
> help
> > of computers from libraries all over the world, all the latest material
> for
> > you personally, not as something to be put out on a bookshelf.  They send
> > you the package as a direct personal service.  This is where we’re
> heading
> > under electronic conditions.  Products increasingly are becoming
> services.”
> >
> > That was not a vision of the internet, it is a vision of the book. The
> > internet does not work like that. Books can. This is the way I have paid
> my
> > rent for the last two years. By making books that are an accumulation of
> > everything that you need in a book. There is one major difference and
> > something that Marshall Mcluhan may not have interwined into this thread
> -
> > the net has brought social production networks to a scale that the person
> on
> > the other end of McLuhans phone line is an asynchronous network of people
> > you never met, and it is you. You make books with others, you decide what
> a
> > book is and what goes in it, others add ideas and content that either you
> > cant produce or cant produce in time. 100% original source books are
> created
> > in days. Others in minutes.
> >
> > People pay for that. They pay for you to help them do that. It is the
> > beginning of Federated Publishing services, it is the end of nothing.
> >
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