[FM Discuss] Forking an official manual for translation in FM?

[adam]

On 04/23/2012 11:25 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Mick,
>
>> It makes a lot of sense,
>> workbooks and supporting trainers is a great focus.
>
> My experience is that there is less interest in long, linear manuals
> these days. It's just possible that fat textbooks may have been an
> artefact of the economics of printing, i.e. a 400 page book might be
> more profitable than a 200 page book, due to a higher shelf price and
> the way that revenue is divided in the book trade. Of course, e-books
> may turn out to have different economics.

I dont agree. When I look at fm stats (and i cant at the moment since 
the piwik crashed) we get tremendous traffic and people spending a long 
time reading one page

its not a 'death of' scenario, its about multiple channels. Additionally 
just as the web has fuelled reading it has also fuelled the demand for 
good comprehensive information - unfortunately that information is still 
not being delivered on many domains. fm is an exception

>
> I'm also seeing more interest in quick video tutorials, but perhaps
> that's due to the ease of making screencasts, and/or shortening
> attention spans.
>
> So to stay relevant, FM may have to become more demand-driven, and that
> might mean creating courseware (group-read manuals), instead of
> single-reader manuals. That might suit our multi-contributor model very
> well. (Teachers and trainers have a clear incentive to improve a manual,
> because they will probably be using the manual more than once, unlike an
> 'end user' reader).

I agree with exploring the other strategies but not to stay relevant. we 
are relevant. Even more relevant now as there is not much good info on 
the web about free software and a growing amount of noise


>
> Maybe Moodle integration is something we should be looking at too.


definitely agree


adam

>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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