[FM Discuss] a crazy moment pondering a manifesto

[James Simmons]

Adam,

You make me feel guilty for writing three books using FM that violated
pretty much everything in your manifesto.

At least the translation of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" was done by a
team, although it lasted longer than a sprint.

When I published my books on CreateSpace I designed new covers that had my
name on the front and an author photo and bio on the back.  The Lulu
versions had neither.

I had a co-worker who worked on the CiviCRM manual.  They took a group
photo of the team in Lake Tahoe that worked on the book.  That's in the
book.

I guess my point is there needs to be something in the manifesto about
taking credit for your work.

James Simmons


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> ok..so i have too much time in my hands...i was pondering the things we do
> in FLOSS Manuals in abstract and thought we could almost come up kind of
> short (shudder) manifesto for the kinds of methods we use for book
> production. I was trying to capture something that could encompass all the
> activities from Book Sprints to rolling manual development to remote update
> sprints etc etc etc
>
> so...here it is:
>
> Iterative Book Development (IDB) Manifesto:
> We value:
> 0. Collaborative content production over single authorship
> 1. Collaboration and facilitation over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
> 2. Engaged discourse over isolation
> 3. Completed chunks over incomplete volumes
> 4. Here and now production over sometime soon production
>
> ... i generally laugh at anyone who thinks they have the moral authority
> to create a manifesto so please feel free to laugh at me. I do however
> think that this captures something that we have developed in FM...thoughts?
>
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