Revision as of 16:55, 30 March 2012

Adam - South Africa

http://www.flossmanuals.net/
http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
http://www.booksprints.net/ - for design and CAD?
- Booksprint at FeF?
- Who is a good sprint facilitator?
- Training materials for facilitators?
- It is about upskilling people.
Scale documentation - as a social network - successful method - expertise
- How to scale documentation - energy into empowering people - remotely or local to produce content
- Documenation is a community of communities. Say 5 people on each project.
- Look for leaders, and feed energy to the leaders
- Realspace is most effective
- Scalable - 4 books in 3 days with 30 people. Make documentation fun and scalable - modular units.
- Food + Flight + all costs = More like a camping environment + funding environment. People can take working holidays.
PDF Press - it is proprietary - Mediawiki Extension to do Books - collections.
Booktype - limit of book paradigm from wiki. Base format of HTML, restricted set? No, allows extensions. Back end uses CSS and rendering. Rendering is separate from input. Allows Java for control. Based on Webkit. Controls styling with CSS. Uses Django
Wikibooks - not gaining traction
Postgref and diffs are allowed

Authoring and Social aspect -

Versioning system -

Cnx.org lead. Lenses are groups of content that are related, that have been reviewed. Strength: repository; Weakness - authoring.
Authoring is difficult; focus is on publishing. No presentation information. Booktype leaves it and overrides with CSS structure.
Mark Horner - like Life Sciences textbook in a weekend - with Siyavula. Friday evening to Sunday. Advertises as a book in a weekend, but really a couple of weekends + editing
Kathi - sprints for software and development? 2 Days.
In CNX.org - CAD drawings good for repository
Modules are versioned - will version with the documentation. For large things - an ecology where large things go in archive or such
National Instruments - does have a circuit displayer. Painful. Only HTML 5 content.

Booki- http://www.flossmanuals.net/booki-user-guide/ - old name for Booktype - for collaborative sprints on manuals?
Cnx.org - repository. How to do versioning?
Mediawiki - control center for OSE projects
Open CAD/CAM solution?

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 *Booktype - limit of book paradigm from wiki. Base format of HTML, restricted set? No, allows extensions. Back end uses CSS and rendering. Rendering is separate from input. Allows Java for control. Based on [[Webkit]]. Controls styling with CSS. Uses [https://www.djangoproject.com/ Django]
 *Wikibooks - not gaining traction
+*Postgref and diffs are allowed
 Authoring and Social aspect -