[FM Discuss] cryptoparty book & Tech Tools for Activism

[Tomi Toivio]

> January sounds like a good date to go for.
> I really wonder what the best strategy for creating the English Status.net
> manuals is.

At least the more technical chapters should be written with
developers? I couldn't get the spam bot prevention plugin to work,
which is a bit scary, since now I have to delete spam bots manually.
So this is one example of an important plugin that really needs
documentation.

> There is a strong user community that we can reach out to, to ask for
> volunteers.
> OR
> I even wonder if we can do it as a Kickstarter project. There are a lot of
> identi.ca users out there and the social reasons for using Status.net are
> very strong.

It has to be in some more civilized country than Finland, since
Kickstarter is not allowed here! Seriously, one Finnish collaborative
writing project didn't get a permission to use Kickstarter funding, so
they had to return all of the money they received:
http://newshub.fi/archives/688

Actually I have to advertise this collaboratively translated article
as well, since it might be quite interesting to the readers of this
list, it is the story of how Nokia screwed up the Linux-based MeeGo
and ended up being eaten alive by Microsoft:
http://taskumuro.com/artikkelit/the-story-of-nokia-meego

Due to examples like these I have been wondering why Finnish FLOSS
advocacy is so unpolitical. There is an urgent need to find a
localized version of Stallman.

> I know Adam talked to the team before but I might try to contact them to see
> what their take on it is. I think it's great that you are doing one in
> Finish! That might shame them a bit into supporting a good beginner level
> manual.

I mentioned this project on Identi.ca and there was a brief discussion
about it, but haven't really tried to contact them properly yet.

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Best Regards
Tomi Toivio
Open Source Coordinator
http://fi.flossmanuals.net/
tomi at flossmanuals.net
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