[FM Discuss] Archiving most of the books on write.flossmanuals.net - and how to do it.
mick at flossmanuals.net
mick at flossmanuals.net
Wed Jan 2 01:26:00 PST 2019
Hi there,
I'm going to start migration on these ones.
https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Fm-top20
Helen, I'll add in the latest Upstage too.
Any extras?
Thanks
Mick
On 20/11/2018 08:00, Mick Chesterman wrote:
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> Hi Matt,
>
>
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> Yes to both of those!
>
> I would agree that those would be in the top 20!
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>
>
> 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
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>
> Thanks
>
> Mick
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> *From:*Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net> *On Behalf Of *M R
> *Sent:* 19 November 2018 22:15
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] Archiving most of the books on
> write.flossmanuals.net - and how to do it.
>
>
>
> Hi Mick:
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>
> 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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>
>
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> *From:*Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net
> <mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>> on behalf of Mick
> Chesterman <mick at flossmanuals.net <mailto:mick at flossmanuals.net>>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2018 2:56 AM
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> <mailto:discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] Archiving most of the books on
> write.flossmanuals.net - and how to do it.
>
>
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>
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> On 14/11/2018 21:53, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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