<div dir="ltr">Hi Micah,<div><br></div><div style>Did you find the <a href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/accounts/login/?next=/book-sprints/_edit/">BOOK SPRINTS manual</a> on <a href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net">booki.flossmanuals.net</a> (ie. the Write section - not sure why it's not been published to the Read section). You'll need to sign up for a user to read manuals in the Write section, and then you'll have to read it by clicking VIEW for each chapter at a time.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Hope that helps a bit.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Jo</div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2013 10:00, Micah Roth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micah.roth@ucla.edu" target="_blank">micah.roth@ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear flossmanuals,<div><br></div><div>My name is Micah Roth. I am a US Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) currently serving in the Philippines. Peace Corps Philippines has recently decided to initiate the move to ereaders instead of hard-copy training materials for our training events.They saw that the ereader model they bought (the 6" Kindle 3 standard, I believe) has support for PDF and figured they could just save their doc/docx files as PDF and be done with it. When that failed miserably, somebody asked me what they could do about it and I've been researching the process for a few months in my extra time. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have discovered many references on the Internet to markup-style documentation methods that incorporate DITA and Docbook, but haven't really found a good way to teach people to use those systems. I found Wikipedia's export to epub function and what plugins would be required to make a local installation of mediawiki do that, but I'm not sure this is the best method. And of course, I found the awesome booksprint concept and I have read a bit about Booki, Pressbooks, and Booktype - but don't know what tool to choose. I would really appreciate any feedback on this stuff I can get. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This is coming to a head because I was told today that we will have two official booksprints: one for Education, and another for Children-Youth-Families and Environment. These booksprints will be to create the Technical Binder used for the next batch of Volunteers' main trainig events. Unfortunately, nobody knows how to actually *do* a booksprint - at this point, it's just a word. So, is there like a manual out there for how to set up and execute a booksprint? If they don't have guidance all that's going to end up happening is everybody plopping .doc/.docx files in a folder and then one unlucky soul copy-pasting them all into one giant doc, and then printing it. Oy, disastre. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I will be available to attend one of the booksprints (the second one I mentioned) and I have been asked to facilitate it - so any instructions, advice, tips, etc would be highly welcome, since this is my first rodeo. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks a ton!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>~Micah</div></font></span></div>
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