Adam - South Africa

http://www.flossmanuals.net/
http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
http://www.booksprints.net/ - for design and CAD?
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

Authoring and Social aspect -

Versioning system -

Kathi

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?