[FM Discuss] updated IBD

[Mark Hancock]

1. Could be:

> Collaboration and facilitation over individual ownership and production.


Possibly?

M

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On 27 Jun 2012, at 13:46, adam at flossmanuals.net wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
>> 
>>> 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
> 
>> 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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