[FM Discuss] Recommendations for switching to a good documentation system for US Peace Corps Philippines

[Jo Paulger]

Hi Micah,

Did you find the BOOK SPRINTS
manual<http://booki.flossmanuals.net/accounts/login/?next=/book-sprints/_edit/>on
booki.flossmanuals.net (ie. the Write section - not sure why it's not been
published to the Read section). You'll need to sign up for a user to read
manuals in the Write section, and then you'll have to read it by clicking
VIEW for each chapter at a time.

Hope that helps a bit.

Jo



On 24 April 2013 10:00, Micah Roth <micah.roth at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Dear flossmanuals,
>
> My name is Micah Roth. I am a US Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) currently
> serving in the Philippines. Peace Corps Philippines has recently decided to
> initiate the move to ereaders instead of hard-copy training materials for
> our training events.They saw that the ereader model they bought (the 6"
> Kindle 3 standard, I believe) has support for PDF and figured they could
> just save their doc/docx files as PDF and be done with it. When that failed
> miserably, somebody asked me what they could do about it and I've been
> researching the process for a few months in my extra time.
>
> I have discovered many references on the Internet to markup-style
> documentation methods that incorporate DITA and Docbook, but haven't really
> found a good way to teach people to use those systems. I found Wikipedia's
> export to epub function and what plugins would be required to make a local
> installation of mediawiki do that, but I'm not sure this is the best
> method. And of course, I found the awesome booksprint concept and I have
> read a bit about Booki, Pressbooks, and Booktype - but don't know what tool
> to choose. I would really appreciate any feedback on this stuff I can get.
>
> This is coming to a head because I was told today that we will have two
> official booksprints: one for Education, and another for
> Children-Youth-Families and Environment. These booksprints will be to
> create the Technical Binder used for the next batch of Volunteers' main
> trainig events. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to actually *do* a
> booksprint - at this point, it's just a word. So, is there like a manual
> out there for how to set up and execute a booksprint? If they don't have
> guidance all that's going to end up happening is everybody plopping
> .doc/.docx files in a folder and then one unlucky soul copy-pasting them
> all into one giant doc, and then printing it. Oy, disastre.
>
> I will be available to attend one of the booksprints (the second one I
> mentioned) and I have been asked to facilitate it - so any instructions,
> advice, tips, etc would be highly welcome, since this is my first rodeo.
>
> Thanks a ton!
>
> ~Micah
>
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