[FM Discuss] fm inspires occupy to make a book

[mick fuzz]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Daniel James
<daniel.james at sourcefabric.org> wrote:
> Hi a.l.e,
>
>> i don't want to create a flossmanuals community nor want to care
>> about a server setup and maintainance. my concern is really only
>> getting free documentation for some projects i care for.
>
> In that case, you can just use an account on booki.flossmanuals.net, you
> don't need to write in English to use it. Perhaps you could look into
> user interface localization for Booktype (i.e. users setting a
> preference for Italian when they sign up on the Booktype server).
>

That is a good point. A language community doesn't have to be tied to
installing their own version of BookType if they don't have the
technical resources to do it.

You can use booki.flossmanuals.net or booki.cc
Then if you want you can create a Front End for your community using
_any_ kind of tool and just link. eg - HTML, WordPress, Drupal.

This allows you to link to the current versions of your books, link to
the write interface to invite collaboration and have a nice flexible
graphical display to highlight the good work you are doing.

This is what was done with some existing books eg -
http://collaborative-futures.org/ and
http://openweb.flossmanuals.net

If your community grows and wants to install BookType then you can
easily migrate your books.

nice one
Mick