[FM Discuss] a crazy moment pondering a manifesto

[adam at flossmanuals.net]

> 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.

We value generous credit over ownership?

>


> 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?
>>
>>
>> adam
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