[FM Discuss] FLOSS manuals archive sites - and a volunteer request

[Elisa Godoy de Castro Guerra]

Helen you are so positive <3

Le jeu. 25 nov. 2021 à 15:48, Helen Varley Jamieson <
helen at creative-catalyst.com> a écrit :

> hi mick,
>
> great that you are getting onto this & nice to see the wayback snap of the
> infant FM :)
>
> can you move the UpStage v3 manual to the archive site? we are now using
> the new UpStage & have nearly finished its manual - we're doing it on
> french FM (
> https://fr.flossmanuals.net/upstage-v4-english/_draft/_v/1.0/introduction/)
> as this was easiest for elisa to set up, & we've all benefited from
> learning french terms like enregister & telecharger :)
>
> h : )
> On 25.11.21 10:25, Mick Chesterman wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I’ve been working with Alexandre Porres from the pure data community to
> correct older versions of our pure data manual and the current one.
>
> This has highlighted that archived resources could do more to point to
> more current versions and ideally remove completely redundant versions of
> manuals.
>
>
>
> This reflects the current focus of the FLOSS Manuals project to maintain
> existing manuals as archived work – and to update documentation for
> existing project where appropriate – and signpost to other relevant
> materials and resources in line with FLOSS Manuals ethos.
>
>
>
> So, I’ve finally pulled the plug on write.flossmanuals.net – although the
> site is still available here
>
> http://floss.booktype.pro/ -
>
> I’ll ask for that to be taken down at the end of the year – so if there is
> still anything useful there that isn’t part of
> http://archive.flossmanuals.net then please do go grab it.
>
> write.flossmanuals.net – now forwards to archive.flossmanuals.net
>
>
>
> *Volunteer/s Request*
>
> Would anyone be up for taking on a project to include a header banner for
> the archive site that signposts reader to more updated manuals when they
> exist?
>
> The archive site is in flat html. So some kind of script to inject header
> material would be needed. And some design work to create a nice looking
> header.
>
>
>
> Here’s a link to the current archive site on gitlab
>
> https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/archive.flossmanuals.net
>
>
>
> and here’s a link to an early version of flossmanuals.net capture by
> archive.org – it has a header at the top of the page saying wayback
> machine – it’s this kind of injected header that I’m talking about.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20060721074055/http://www.flossmanuals.net/
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20060721074055/http:/www.flossmanuals.net/>
>
>
>
> Hope you are all doing well.
>
> If you are ever in the north of England come visit me at a new Making /
> Repairing space that I’m doing in a town called Todmorden -
> https://todmordenmakery.org.uk/
>
>
>
> Nice one
>
> Mick
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>
> helen varley jamieson
>
> helen at creative-catalyst.com
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