Digital Manual Scoping Study involving FLOSS Manuals By mickfuzz
FLOSS Manuals was chosen as a case study for a scoping study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The research focus was the ‘Digital Manual’: a model of emergent multi-authored publication employing open source and co-creative practices. Clearly this is an area where FM is doing really innovative work. Although what we do is innovative and interesting, we are so focused on the practicalities of creating free manuals for free software rather than the analysis of that process, that until now it has been challenging for FLOSS Manuals to interact easily with the academic world. Also, there is a certain amount of grumpy pride in our community that we have been under-funded and over-worked compared to some projects in the worlds of Free Culture or academia. http://clearerchannel.org/wordpress/blog/2012/07/13/digital-manual/# _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
