[FM Discuss] Archiving most of the books on write.flossmanuals.net - and how to do it.

Tue Nov 20 00:00:50 PST 2018

Hi Matt,

Yes to both of those!
I would agree that those would be in the top 20!

I’ve been looking around for replacements to the Mozilla etherpad that we usually borrow for FM.
But can’t seem to find a quick alternative and didn’t fancy doing an install of nextcloud and getting libre office installed on the server quite yet!

So here’s a pad to put in our favourite for migration / promotion.
https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Fm-top20

Thanks
Mick

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Hi Mick:

Just now paying attention to this thread.  Obviously I think my Shotcut manual should make the top 20 😊, as it's an all-new write from early this year (and I'd certainly argue that Shotcut is one of two leading opensource vid editors).

And I don't think anyone would dispute that Audacity is easily the leading open-source sound editor.  I know someone wanted to do an(other) big re-write of that one earlier this year, on top of my update; not sure if that ever happened as I seem to still see my version on the site; but in any case Audacity surely makes the cut  for the migration.

Let me know if there's anything I should be doing on these to assist.

Best,

Matt

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On 14/11/2018 21:53, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:

hmm, i'm not sure about that one either. is there a way to see which are the most viewed?

Not really, :(

Also, thinking about it a bit it may be more tactical to make a decision based on what is most likely to attract editors and avoid duplication of effort and help build on the existing community.

I was also thinking that the manuals that seem to date best are the ones for established media / art / sound making tools rather than for Interent Security ones.

For example the one on digital art foundations has probably dated better than the ones on Interent Security.
http://write.flossmanuals.net/digital-foundations/introduction/
/chapter: Introduction / Digital Foundations - FLOSS Manuals<http://write.flossmanuals.net/digital-foundations/introduction/>
write.flossmanuals.net
Introduction This book was written by two artist educators who teach digital art and design studio foundation classes. While teaching classes that take place in software laboratories, we noticed that many of our students expected to learn to use software, but gave little consideration to aesthetics or art and design history.

Certainly, it's a great time to nominate one or more manuals to "look after" if you are friendly member of the FM community and would like to maintain a manual by doing some updates or even by providing direction to some of the many volunteers we get.
Just email me if with a manuals of choice if you are interested in doing that.

Thanks
Mick

probably the UpStage manual doesn't need to be archived, as we have old versions on the website (i think ... we used to ... ) & i don't think anyone out there is using the old versions anyway. & hopefully in the not too distant future we are going to have a completely shiny new improved platform! :)

h : )

On 14.11.2018 02:15, mick at flossmanuals.net<mailto:mick at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

Hi there,

This was a point that came up at the last FLOSS Manuals meeting.

The proposal was to archive most of the FLOSS Manuals content in the process of moving to a new Booktype 2.x installation apart from active or most valued ones , and for me to come up with a suggestion on how to do that.
I've got a suggestion which is...

  *   Pick at top 20 of manuals which we would like to promote and try to keep updated.
  *   Migrate those and any that have changed significantly since the last migration to the current write.flossmanuals.net
  *   Update the web links of older manuals to point to the relevant part of http://archive.flossmanuals.net/ for example one like http://archive.flossmanuals.net/ffmpeg2theora/

I actually think this could be a really positive thing, we get loads of hits still, and lots of requests to get involved as volunteers but it's not always clear where to get them started.
I think this kind of focus could really help.

I'm not sure the best way to pick the top 20 odd manuals however, any suggestions?

Thanks
Mick

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