[FM Discuss] revisiting bookipublisher lite

[Mick - Floss Manuals]

I just wanted to revisit the idea of booki publisher lite.

This was put together by Michael to serve the needs of the CiviCRM
community a way of viewing the FLOSS Manual inside the civicrm.org URL,
adding formatting, and making friendly, structured URLs.

The code is here
https://github.com/michaelmcandrew/bookipublisherlite
and michael's post about it on the list is here
http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2011-December/006795.html

At Mozilla Festival we discussed if it could serve the needs of
fledgling language communities in FM and other groups using BookType.

On 28/10/12 21:53, a.l.e wrote:
> i've already stated in the past, that i would welcome a well managed
> (and stable...) central setup. maintaining multiple tiny sites looks
> like a waste of time and resources to me. i

I think there are a few situations like this some languages ( fa - nl -
es) where there are enough manuals translated to merit a front page and
separate URL,  but which would also benefit from the central repository
(which is currently by default booki.flossmanuals.net), rather than
maintaining a full BookType install.

It might be nice to think of a wish list of a minimal front end site (
created by this mini-booki publisher). It wouldn't be able to do
everything that the current system does  - ie the remix interface.
But could ideally be integrated into BookType somehow.

Some of the core features might be

* host manuals within the language / community URL
* be able to link to translations easily (as in current sites)
* to be easily theme-able to add banner images, footers and menu items
linking out to blogs, about pages etc.

I do think that if communities can, it's good for them to install a
BookType instance as it makes for a more resilient federated community.
But this idea of Bookpublisherlite could be a good stepping stone in
that direction.

Adam what would be the best way to feed into the BookType team about this?

nice one
mick