[FM Discuss] trial annotation

[Tomi Toivio]

I noticed that a lot of people who are potential contributors to FLOSS
Manuals are using Diigo, which does the same social annotation thing, but
is not open source software at all. I was thinking we really need something
like this, but there is a need to promote one of the alternatives, so that
people are using the same social annotation tool and see the annotations of
the other contributors.

To promote these things we could have a FLOSS Manuals external tools
manual, which would contain open source tools like Annotate It. Maybe the
manual could be called "Top 10 Open Source Tools For FLOSS Manuals
Contributors." I heard that Top 10 lists are very popular on the internet.

This brings me back to the idea about the open source social media manual.
Now we have some more material and contributors for that book in Finnish,
the point is how can you combine the materials and how to coordinate the
whole thing in different languages? And the use of social media varies
heavily from language to language, so there would be a need to do some
heavy localization.

Joindiaspora.com would actually already have enough Finnish-speaking users
to start the kind of a snowball effect that is needed to start attracting
people away from the Facebook, but Identi.ca seems to have very few
Finnish-speaking users. There seem to have been plans for integrating
Booktype with the Status.net API, but can we use Diaspora with Booktype
somehow? Can I install a Diaspora pod inside Booktype? Ok, bad joke, maybe
we just wait until functional Diaspora plugins become available...

One more thing that could be promoted by using it on FM. YaCy is an open
source distributed peer to peer search engine I really like, we could use
this in the website search engine mode to provide open source search of FM
sites: http://yacy.net/en/

YaCy is Java and eats up a horrible amount of resources when you run it as
a distributed P2P search engine, but it is still really cool. I don't know
if it uses so much resources when you use it just as a website search
engine. It also has some very cool network visualizations. You have to try
it. I think that it might become a huge thing.


2012/3/15 <adam at flossmanuals.net>

> hi
>
> i was playing with a very nice new free software annotation plugin -
> http://annotateit.org
>
> It can run via a service or you can install your own. So i plugged it into
> fm as a test. it is rather good timing because i am getting together a
> book and would very much like comments on it and so this might be the
> perfect way to trial the annotator and get feedback at the same time
>
>
> to use it first register at annotateit
> http://annotateit.org
>
> and then go here:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/a-webpage-is-a-book/_draft
>
> click on an chapter, highlight text and annotate away...its just a trial
> but it seems like a good system...feedback on both the book and the
> annotator is very much welcome
>
> adam
>
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Tomi Toivio
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