[FM Discuss] a crazy moment pondering a manifesto

[Anne Gentle]

You know, I do find a manifesto a way to ask and answer, "Are these
people my people?"

I think this is a great start, and it's thought-provoking too.

James, you did freak us out a little bit with your need for attributed
authorship on each chapter, so it's not that you should feel guilty,
but just recognize there was a bit of an oddity to some of your needs
and requests compared to most who come to FLOSS Manuals. :)

I like the edits and don't really have much to add. It certainly
displays the shift we're seeing in tech comm overall, where
collaboration is practically the only way to get enough information,
complete chunks are highly valuable over volumes, and so on.

Anne

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:51 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> as i have said before, i dont think we need mission statements etc
>
> we work fine, lets not formulate who we are. its like a good party - if you
> are having fun and things are working then just let it roll...making rules
> for it kills the dynamic and the fun.
>
> we know what we are, thats good enough
>
>
> adam
>
>
> On 06/28/2012 04:40 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
>>
>> 2012/6/27 Andy Oram<andyo at oreilly.com>
>>
>>> I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I want to point out that most
>>> organizations have mission statements, and some also have value
>>> statements
>>> that work like the manifesto Adam is talking about.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and to explain what FM is doing in terms that are commonly understood
>> is actually very difficult, if you think about people who are not into
>> open
>> source yet, and who are actually the ones who need the manuals the most.
>>
>> You could start by explaining that FM is like a wiki, but actually it is
>> quite different from a normal wiki. Then you notice that many people
>> actually don't know how a wiki works.
>>
>> Then you can add the confusion about freeware vs. open source. The concept
>> of open source is actually hard to understand unless you know something
>> about computer programming. So many people just think about freeware.
>>
>> I have also noticed that many people tend to get scared of the manuals
>> since they expect they have to learn something extremely complicated.
>>
>> There is a need for something like a video introduction into FM that can
>> be
>> easily translated into various languages.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tomi
>>
>>
>>
>>
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