Great to hear every time your progress with this.  That "Handbook Hack"
mentioned on the DJH site looks like a good place to promote Grafoscopio.

cheers -ben

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Upps... I copied and pasted parts of my original post in the Open Knowedge
> Forum, so it seems that it got scrambled with some extra information from
> there here.
>
> Anyway I hope the message is clear.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
> On 04/10/17 21:09, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently, in our local hackerspace <http://hackbo.co/>, we used, extended
> and adapted, Grafoscopio <http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html>
> to recreate the first open source version of the Data Journalism Handbook
> <http://datajournalismhandbook.org/>, in Spanish. Quoting from the
> project page:
>
> There are some interesting Free Cultural Works
> <http://freedomdefined.org/Definition> which are not open sourced.
> This means that, they are covered under pretty liberal licenses,
> allowing their remix, sale and modification, but the infrastructures
> which support the creation, modification and publishing of such works,
> don’t allow wide participation and deep traceability of their history of
> such collective endeavors.
>
> This is our approach about alternative ways for creating such works,
> addressing the above problem, using the Data Journalism Handbook as an
> example (English <http://datajournalismhandbook.org/>, Spanish
> <http://interactivos.lanacion.com.ar/manual-data/>) and *pocket
> infrastructures*, which are simple, self
>
> contained, and work well on-line and off-line, like Fossil
> <http://fossil-scm.org/> and
> Grafoscopio <http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html>. Also we
> extended and adapted Grafoscopio, during this project,
> to make the tool suit the problem (and not the usual other way around).
>
> More information and downloadable files in the project source code
> repository:
>
> http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/mapeda/
>
> This is also an example of the kind of books you can create now
> with/inside Grafoscopio (with Pandoc).
>
> And, of course, the customary screenshots:
>
> [image: photo532578960227822324]
>
> [image: photo5082366090373343168]
>
> [image: Captura de pantalla del manual en Grafoscopio.]
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
>
>

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