[liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread adrelanos
Hi, since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought it may be worth checking how other projects did. Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for anonymity/privacy/security related projects. Which medium is preferred? Text, text with lots of

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread Griffin Boyce
As a user, I prefer text with screenshots. As a coder, I'm okay with just text. Video is good for showing off the finished product, but not as good for showing how to implement something. (It's a bit of an amusing problem where someone will youtube a solution to a really common problem. :D So

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread danimoth
On 11/02/13 at 10:20am, adrelanos wrote: Hi, since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought it may be worth checking how other projects did. Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for anonymity/privacy/security related projects. It

Re: [liberationtech] Happy Creepy February!

2013-02-11 Thread liberationtech
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:47:18PM -0600, nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote 1.8K bytes in 0 lines about: : Thanks to investigative work by the Guardian, we can tell just how many : steps back online privacy's taken this year. It's unfortunate: : :

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:54:27AM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: Obviously systems are too complex for most people to really figure out what's exactly running on their computer, and modern systems (from smart phones to unity) make it harder and harder for users (even power users) to peek under the

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-11 Thread Andreas Bader
On 02/11/2013 04:15 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:54:27AM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: Obviously systems are too complex for most people to really figure out what's exactly running on their computer, and modern systems (from smart phones to unity) make it harder and harder

Re: [liberationtech] Would like to change my email id

2013-02-11 Thread Buddhadeb Halder
Hi, I would like to chnage my email id for this group. Could you please ammend my email id to bhalder...@gmail.com . I do not want to receive mail on this id i.e. buddhadeb.hal...@unibo.it Please do the needful, Regards, Buddha Buddhadeb Halder PhD Research

[liberationtech] CfP: Technology, power political economy of new media

2013-02-11 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Carpentier Nico nico.carpent...@vub.ac.be Call for papers: Technology, power and the political economy of new media Editors Rasmus Helles (guest editor) and Anne Mette Thorhauge, University of Copenhagen SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2013 Publication deadline: Fall 2013 Recent

Re: [liberationtech] Would like to change my email id

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Conley
Buddha, please use the links at the end of any lib tech mail to change your settings. Sent from my iPad On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:07, Buddhadeb Halder buddhadeb.hal...@unibo.it wrote: Hi, I would like to chnage my email id for this group. Could you please ammend my email id to

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread adrelanos
danimoth: On 11/02/13 at 10:20am, adrelanos wrote: Hi, since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought it may be worth checking how other projects did. Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for anonymity/privacy/security related projects.

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Conley
Hi Adrelanos, At SWN we have been writing a lot of documentation, training, and other materials in the last 18 months, including a soon-to-be published 40,000 word curriculum in journalism, mobile safety, and multimedia production. What I find works best are: 1. active voice sentences whenever

[liberationtech] Stanford Security Seminar Tomorrow: Jay Lorch -- Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center

2013-02-11 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Joe Zimmerman j...@cs.stanford.edu *Jay Lorch* -- *Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center* Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Talk at 4:30pm in Gates 463A Abstract: Recent events have shown online service providers the perils of possessing private information about

Re: [liberationtech] Licensing Free Software for Liberation + Safety

2013-02-11 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Heya, congrats on being close to launch! I don't see a way of doing what you talk of here that *isn't* simply a barrier (and a weak one) towards people who would do things with the code, good or bad. It did make me think for a while about it, but I don't have anything useful to say (or I'd say