I'm ccing the FM discuss list on this as I don't know specific details of how inputting and creating epubs work in Book Type. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jessy@jessykate.com" target="_blank">jessy@jessykate.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div>So I guess one request for an api (although I'm not sure that this is really an api thing technically) - is to be able to import epub format to create a course, and to make courses available in epub format too. <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>i LOVE this idea. i've actually been thinking about it too. because if that was possible, people could use p2pu as the main location of the content, and then export "releases" of that course at certain times to other places where perhaps a book format is more appropriate. it could always link back to p2pu as the canonical reference/ </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Yes that's probably the best way of explaining it. <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<br>There are probably other contenders too - I know wordpress uses a XML (<abbr title="WordPress eXtended RSS">WXR</abbr>) format- and that drupal can import that via the feeds module. That would make importing a course into a blog or website super easy with existing tools.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>yes, it would be cool to support a few formats too!</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>So I guess I'm just wondering if you guys have thought about this kind of content portability and what the thoughts were. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>i think it's been discussed informally and thought of, and would build nicely off of the read-only api that's already been developed (not quite released yet). but we don't have a ton of extra developer bandwidth given the competing priorities. if there was general interest in this, is it something that you or people in your community might be interested in implementing and contributing to lernanta?</div>
<div> </div><div>jessy</div><div> <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><span class="st">Maybe some of the work has already been done as Book Type and Lernata are based on Python and <em>Django</em></span>. However, beyond that I'm going to have to ask a "grown up" on the FM list to help me on the specifics. <br>
Maybe Adam or Aco can chip in? <br><br>I think it may be an interesting area to explore as I think that this may be an area that the FM and P2PU communities may have in common. It is a way of involving other communities on the core project while allowing them to showcase the work within their own URLs. And it really fits in the FM philosophy of encouraging re-use of materials. <br>
<br>As an example the CiviCRM manual is in two places. <br><a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/">http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/</a> & <br><a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/">http://book.civicrm.org/user/</a><br>
<br>nice one<br>mick<br><br><br></div></div>