[FM Discuss] revisiting bookipublisher lite

[adam]

a script to do this would take a good programmer about 2 hours to write
- thats how we did it at the open spending sprint - wrote it on the spot


adam

On 11/18/2012 03:32 PM, Mick - Floss Manuals wrote:
> On 18/11/12 13:17, adam wrote:
>> the best way is to file a ticket here in as much detail as possible:
>>
>> http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK/
>>
> Ok here it is.
> http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/BK-384
> 
> Also I just noticed that you did a similar thing to what
> bookipublisherlite achieves with the Open Spending Data sprint (see link
> below).
> How did you manage that?
> 
> nice one,
> mick
> 
> I'll post this blog post by you Adam to keep the rest of the list up to
> date as to what you are getting up to.
> 
> 
>     Open Spending Data Released
>     <http://www.booksprints.net/2012/11/open-spending-data-released/>
> 
> Finished and released. You can find the epub, pdf and mobi files plus
> online html
> here: http://openspending.org/resources/handbook/ch007_getting-cleaning.html
> 
> 
> The book builds on the Open Data Handbook previously created by the
> OKFN. The spending book will be used for workshops this week in Bosnia
> and printed as booklets to assist the participants.
> 
> This brings me to a small break in what has been a crazy amount of
> sprinting in the last 6 weeks. Since Oct 3 I have facilitated the
> production of 4 books (all except one being on non free software topics
> -- Open Oil, Open Spending Data, and Andre Malraux, and the CryptoParty
> Handbook). It hardly seems possible and I'm grabbing a few days to relax
> before moving on to Egypt at the end of the month for a Book Sprint (in
> Arabic and English) on mapping Cairo and its ecological hot spots, and
> then San Francisco to facilitate 3 simultaneous sprints (all free
> software topics  - Fontforge, Evergreen, and Squeakland) and one final
> triple sprint on Internet Security by the end of the year. That will
> make a grand total of 13 books (approx 400,000 -- 500,000 words) all
> freely licensed and produced in under 11 weeks.
> 
> On top of that the 2 books sprinted in September -- OER UK, and Notation
> Systems could be added to the tally of what looks like a growing need
> for Book Sprints and trained facilitators.
> 
> 
> 

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