[FM Discuss] Collaboration and logistics: lots of questions

[Andy Oram]

Thanks for the quick response, Mick. You have given me the answers I need.
I'll ask the FSF whether they'd like to use that Etherpad or something
else. I did successfully reset my password and I have the book's new URL.

Andy

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 2:44 PM, mick at flossmanuals.net <
mick at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 27/03/18 16:07, Andy Oram wrote:
>
> I realize FLOSS Manuals is undergoing a big web transition. As many of you
> know, I am volunteering to help FM and the Free Software Foundation update
> Introduction to the Command Line, which can be found on an old Booki page:
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/command-line/
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Great to get your eyes on this Andy. This is all really useful.
>
> This is a better link to point people towards.
> http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line
>
> the booki URL is only really there as an archive.
> I've created this issue.
> https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_booktype/issues/6
>
>
> I can be patient until all the web elements of the new site are in place,
> but I thought I'd point out some 404 links and other problems. First, a
> focus on the positive: how can people collaborate to discuss what to put in
> a new update? Is there a web page that works like the non-free Google Docs
> or other collaboration tools? Using a mailing list or IRC channel to
> accumulate ideas is not effective.
>
> I would suggest etherpad  here which I'm sure mozilla wouldn't mind if we
> borrowed
> https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/
>
> Or using an issue tracker in gitlab / git hub.
>
> Now for a handful of problems.
>
> The https://www.flossmanuals.org/get-involved-0 site invites people to
> write by offering a link to a site that no longer exists:
>
> http://www.booki.cc/fm-foundation-website/_edit/booki.flossmanuals.netp
>
> That's fixed
>
> When I actually visit write.flossmanuals.net, my user name and password
> are considered incorrect. So I assume that's an out-of-date page too.
>
>
> Password resets do work so if that doesn't work you can just get in touch
> with me to get another log in.
>
>
> Introduction to the Command line has an outdate "About" page, with lots of
> broken links:
>
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/command-line/_all
>
>
> Again this is an archive site, so see the link above.
>
> Mick
>
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