[FM Discuss] updated IBD

[adam at flossmanuals.net]

1. Collaboration and facilitation over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
2. Completed chunks over incomplete volumes
3. Here and now production over sometime soon production
4. Shared accomplishment over individual glory
5. Meaningful credit for all contributors

maybe 5 is the same but better than 4?


1. Collaboration and facilitation over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
2. Completed chunks over incomplete volumes
3. Here and now production over sometime soon production
4. Meaningful credit for all contributors

so how do we make (1) more tasty then...
1. Collaboration and facilitation over single authored works

?

adam

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>> i dont know how to work micks point about meaningful credit in there
>
> If you will allow a 'point 6', I suggest:
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> 6. Meaningful credit for all contributors

> Hi Adam,
>
>> Iterative Book Development (IDB) Manifesto:
>> We value:
>> 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
>> 5. Shared accomplishment over individual glory
>
>> i dont know how to work micks point about meaningful credit in there
>
> If you will allow a 'point 6', I suggest:
>
> 6. Meaningful credit for all contributors
>
>> and formulating a response to dans comments about editors and
>> authors...
>
> I believe that many people in the book trade will get jumpy if it looks
> like their profession is under attack, especially from something they
> don't understand, like the phrase 'iterative book development' :-)
>
> It seems to me that those people have the most to gain from tools like
> Booktype (since they spend most of their time working on books). Perhaps
> we can start by recognising that book production has always been a
> collaboration, and only now do we have a software tool which embraces
> that fact and offers a parallel workflow to suit it. (I've written a
> book using a linear workflow based on Word comments, it took the best
> part of a year to publish).
>
> Maybe points 1 and 2 are really the same, if collaboration is the
> opposite of isolation. Working on your own for a publisher in another
> country that you never even meet is pretty isolating, but that seems
> quite normal for tech manuals.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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