Hi there, Please see invite below. If you're in London on the 18th October, please join us. See below: FLOSS Manuals UK hub warm-up
There are a lot of good resources on Internet Security on FLOSS Manuals which were used to create the CryptoParty handbook. However, we do need to keep up a bit of momentum to convene a community of volunteers to maintain them and to add more. Date: 18th October 2014 Time: 2-6pm Place: Furtherfield Commons FLOSS Manuals was launched by Adam Hyde in 2007 to remedy the deficit of good free documentation about Free Software. Our strategy since the beginning has been to develop communities to produce high quality free manuals about Free Software in their own language. Today, through the use of Booksprints and federated publishing techniques we have more than 120 books in more than 30 languages and more than 4,000 contributors. FLOSS Manuals is more than a collection of manuals about doing things with free and open source software, it is also the community, The contributors include designers, readers, writers, illustrators, free software fans, editors, artists, software developers, activists, and many others. Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, add a more detailed explanation, write a new chapter, or start a whole new manual on a topic. FLOSS Manuals now consists of 3 independent language communities (French, English, Finnish) supported by a Foundation based in Holland. Our current focus is to develop strong partnerships with grassroots educators to develop educational materials about free software. Come to our UK hub warm-up meeting at Furtherfield to propose books/manuals projects, to encourage others to propose book/manual projects and also to invite publishers, or people interested in publishing. The afternoon is convened by Larisa Blazic, Mick Fuzz and Rachel Baker. Mick is a long-term contributor at FLOSS Manuals and community educator. Rachel has recently undertaken a detailed study of Booksprints process. Larisa is investigating how FLOSS tools and practices to be best embedded in post-graduate programmes. Contacts: Lara <lab_webATyahoo.com>; Mick - FM <mickATflossmanuals.net> nice one Mick -- Mick Chesterman - [email protected] mickfuzz [skype] @onefuzzyduck [twitter] http://clearerchannel.org - training and freelance work http://flossmanuals.net - Free Manuals for Free Software -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] or use https://lists.openrightsgroup.org/listinfo/org-discuss
