[FM Discuss] federated publishing

[adam]

wasnt aware of that...thanks :)

there is also this list which booki is also on:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Platforms#Booki

adam



On 10/08/2011 04:43 AM, Janet Swisher wrote:
> 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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