[FM Discuss] [p2pu-community] try.github.com and distributed learning

[adam]

Booktype has its own renderer - Objavi. You need to be able to make a 
booki.zip file and then send this to Objavi and it will turn it into 
epub, mobi, html, whatever you want

its not so much a question of python or django etc, more a question 
about formating the booki.zip correctly
https://github.com/esetera/Objavi/blob/master/htdocs/booki-zip-standard.txt


adam

On 07/13/2012 05:20 PM, mick fuzz wrote:
> I'm ccing the FM discuss list on this as I don't know specific details of
> how inputting and creating epubs work in Book Type.
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
> <jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:
>
>> hey mick,
>>
>>
>>> So I guess one request for an api (although I'm not sure that this is
>>> really an api thing technically) - is to be able to import epub format to
>>> create a course, and to make courses available in epub format too.
>>>
>>
>> i LOVE this idea. i've actually been thinking about it too. because if
>> that was possible, people could use p2pu as the main location of the
>> content, and then export "releases" of that course at certain times to
>> other places where perhaps a book format is more appropriate. it could
>> always link back to p2pu as the canonical reference/
>>
>
> Yes that's probably the best way of explaining it.
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> There are probably other contenders too - I know wordpress uses a XML (
>>> WXR) format- and that drupal can import that via the feeds module. That
>>> would make importing a course into a blog or website super easy with
>>> existing tools.
>>>
>>
>> yes, it would be cool to support a few formats too!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So I guess I'm just wondering if you guys have thought about this kind of
>>> content portability and what the thoughts were.
>>>
>>
>> i think it's been discussed informally and thought of, and would build
>> nicely off of the read-only api that's already been developed (not quite
>> released yet). but we don't have a ton of extra developer bandwidth given
>> the competing priorities. if there was general interest in this, is it
>> something that you or people in your community might be interested in
>> implementing and contributing to lernanta?
>>
>> jessy
>>
>>
>
> Maybe some of the work has already been done as Book Type and Lernata are
> based on Python and *Django*.  However, beyond that I'm going to have to
> ask a "grown up" on the FM list to help me on the specifics.
> Maybe Adam or Aco can chip in?
>
> I think it may be an interesting area to explore as I think that this may
> be an area that the FM and P2PU communities may have in common. It is a way
> of involving other communities on the core project while allowing them to
> showcase the work within their own URLs. And it really fits in the FM
> philosophy of encouraging re-use of materials.
>
> As an example the CiviCRM manual is in two places.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/ &
> http://book.civicrm.org/user/
>
> nice one
> mick
>
>
>
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