Revision as of 16:32, 30 March 2012

Adam - South Africa

http://www.flossmanuals.net/
http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
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
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

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.

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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 *http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
 *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
 *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 [https://www.djangoproject.com/ Django]