[FM Discuss] FLOSS Manuals invited by a research project on 'Digital Manual'

[helen varley jamieson]

:D ... it's an AHRC (arts & humanities research council, UK) funded 
project - highly contestable academic funding that requires a high level 
of bafflegab to get anywhere near the money. speaking as one of the case 
studies in the project, it's my understanding that the researchers 
selected a small number of groups to study in order to get a 
representation of what is out there but keep it manageable within their 
budget. quite likely they are already aware of sugar labs, but if not 
i'm sure they would be interested to know about it.

i don't know if penny or smita are on this list - if they are, they can 
respond; otherwise i can put you in touch with them off list.

h : )

On 28/03/12 5:09 AM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin wrote:
> On Tue, March 27, 2012 12:03 pm, Laurent Giacobino wrote:
>> following the best/worst practice of re-publishing news on the discuss
>> list, here is something you might want to read about
>> http://www.flossmanuals.org/news/floss-manuals-invited-digital-manual-research-network
>> Laurent
> http://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/digital-manual/sample-page/
> Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project
> ‘Creation and Publication of the “Digital Manual”: Authority,
> Authorship and Voice.’
>
> How does one contact them? Sugar Labs might be interested in joining
> the project. Although possibly not if the project is to be carried on
> in the bafflegab of this announcement. To me, employing
> such a pretentious voice radically undercuts any purported authority of the
> proponents. Or, translating my own intentional bafflegab to plain
> English, if you cannot say what you are doing in plain English, you do
> not know what you are doing.
>
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