Voted and blogged (and got the tshirt, ha ha)! Great news. It looks like this project is different from the first one we voted for, is that right? So vote again even if you think you already did.<br><br>Janet and I have speculated you'd either end up with a bookmobile or one of those highspeed book scanners. Or both! I'd like to hear more about the binding techniques and so on. Also how could you incorporate ebook distribution into the book mobile? <br>
<br>Thanks for the update. <br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anne</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="WISESTAMP_SIG_2617">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:53 PM, </span>adam<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span>hyde<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <<a href="mailto:adam@flossmanuals.net">adam@flossmanuals.net</a>> wrote:</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hey</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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so....i have been offline a bit running around doing this, doing</span><br>
that...off the this n thats there are 2 that might interest fm-ers<br>
<br>
number 1 is...well, you might have heard we got booki into the Drumbeat<br>
Open Web Award...ok. Thats great news! Well, now we need to get votes<br>
since there are 3 projects we stand a very good chance to win the 5000<br>
cash (which we will use for a code sprint)<br>
<br>
so...if you want to vote go here:<br>
<a href="http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing" target="_blank">http://www.drumbeat.org/project/open-web-publishing</a><br>
<br>
register and vote!<br>
<br>
and please spread the word and get others to do the same. we need as<br>
many votes as possible...<br>
<br>
ok..number 2 ...i have been working on a project for Drumbeat. FM should<br>
have a presence there and so I slipped some proposals to a few people<br>
not knowing if they would be into it or not but i thought i should give<br>
it a best shot although that was tricky as i have been working hard<br>
renovating and moving recently :) (and i also had a german visa<br>
application this week to attend to which i just found out today was<br>
successful :) . Apparently Mozilla, CiviCRM, <a href="http://francophonie.org" target="_blank">francophonie.org</a> and<br>
iCommons thought it was a good idea and so I am happy to announce the<br>
first ever FLOSS Manuals Book Mobile!<br>
<br>
Its basically a van full of the stuff you need to make books, modelled<br>
on the <a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">archive.org</a> book mobile:<br>
<a href="http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/texts/bookmobile.php</a><br>
<br>
i will drive it to drumbeat (and to other events after drumbeat and in<br>
2011)...<br>
<br>
i will work with some fm friends in barcelona and we will make and give<br>
away free manuals on free software...i am hoping to give away 300 in 3<br>
days. that might be optimistic but lets see how it goes. i also hope we<br>
will have enough people locally to translate a book or two to<br>
spanish/catalan at drumbeat using booki and make those books immediately<br>
with the book mobile...<br>
<br>
i will send more info on the book mobile. its an exciting project both<br>
for fm and for promoting free software... i hope others might consider<br>
copying the idea - it would be good to have a fleet of fm book mobiles<br>
for promoting free softwares at events...park it outside your local<br>
expensive and exclusive proprietary software event and give away free<br>
manuals on free software! (we can give away any info on free software,<br>
not just books...)<br>
<br>
so....anyways....fm book mobile #1 is forthcoming...i will fwd more info<br>
as we get it together.<br>
<br>
:)<br>
<br>
adam<br>
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