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Inkscape book on Floss Manuals
by Joshua Facemyer 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

A little PR for the Inkscape Docs team: We recently got our Inkscape Manual (the fruit of our Book Sprint) put on Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/content/4617381). You've probably seen the article by the Russian on the inkscape.org which has a link - if not, check it out! The published book, while being a reasonably finished work of good quality, is not comprehensive. We would like it to be more so. Here are some things that will help us to continue with this work: 1. Sales of the current version (somewhat limited 1st EDITION!!!!) on Lulu will help us afford a future Booksprint. 2. Contributions to the manual on our Floss Manuals workspace are greatly needed. Of course, as this needs some coordination, it's best to start on the inkscape-docs list (signup at lists.sourceforge.net) to find out where to begin. 3. Magical powers to generate whatever good thing we want without much effort. If you can help with any of these things, that would be GREAT! In particular, getting word out and posting the link to the Lulu store would be of great benefit. JF

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book sales
by adam hyde 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

hey, Since Brianna put her post and shop up yesterday on her blog: http://brianna.modernthings.org/ you have sold 4 more books :) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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more on the book
by adam hyde 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

hey all I was wondering a few things about the book... First up...can we get this put prominently on the Inkscape site? : <img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/> <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> FM.init({"paging":false,"preferred":["Inkscape"]}); </script> Next...can everyone that was at the sprint send me your postal address. I would like to send you a copy of the book. ... LGM : It seems the LGM will be in may in Montreal...it also sounds like the meeting will have several days for people to work together...how about a second book sprint during the event to take the manual further? related to this are two other issues : 1. we can get a ISBN number (FM can pay for it, its about 100 euro all up). If we do this the book will be listed on Amazon etc...do you want me to do this? If so we need to edit it a little as I noticed a few oddities in the printed version. Its a days work but we need a 1 -day mini-sprint (remote) to clean it up. 2. if you decide a 'yes' on the LGM and ISBN then i have another plan too...how about we combine efforts to promote the bejeebers out of the book (especially before christmas) and see if we can sell enough to pay for everyone to get to Montreal? adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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congrats
by adam hyde 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

u just made your first sale today... i will save the 2 euro for you until some more sales come in ;) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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Inkscape Book
by adam hyde 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

hi, The Inkscape book is online. Its looking great! We need to get the word out. Remember all the proceeds go to the development of the manual - one idea is to sell copies so we can afford doing another inkscape book sprint. So..to help promote the book it would be great if anyone with a website log etc could cut and paste the following into their site: <img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/> <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> FM.init({"items":1,"paging":true,"preferred":["Inkscape"]}); </script> This will show the book in a small 'ajax' insert in your page and link to the page with more info about it and a link to buy the book. There is more info on configuring the embeddable shop if you look here: http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore 2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc. adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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book now online
by adam hyde 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

congrats :) the book is online for sale at a 2 euro mark-up. You can see i here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/ if you want to embed the shop to promote its sale you can use this: <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <img src="http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif" style="margin-bottom:2px;"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://stores.lulu.com/feed.php?fStore=flossmanuals&fFormat=js"></script> the maintainers for the project are: cedric, elisa, joshua and alexandre. You guys decide on what to do with the income. We suggest putting towards another Book Sprint and perhaps a donation to FM, but its entirely up to you. adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] covers
by Elisa-yemanja 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Le Friday 24 October 2008 18:09:02 adam hyde, vous avez écrit : > hey > > Lotte designed 2 covers: > http://adam.engagetv.com/covers/ > > i can make the book available once we have made a decision on which to > use. takes 2 minutes to get it in the FM shop :) > > adam Very beautiful i love the two covers. Just un the second text are not visible with the background under the text. Thanks to Lotte -- Elisa

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covers
by adam hyde 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

hey Lotte designed 2 covers: http://adam.engagetv.com/covers/ i can make the book available once we have made a decision on which to use. takes 2 minutes to get it in the FM shop :) adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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done and done?
by adam hyde 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

hey So I have been through the whole manual. It looks great! Can you guys check it: http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape I think its ready to out online...I will also generate a PDF print-ready copy for you all to look at adam -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net

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inkscape translation zone
by adam hyde 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

okeee.... http://translate.flossmanuals.net/write Is set up with three ready to go translations of Inkscape_en: de, br, ru I have left the rest because we need to train someone to do this and its best we do this with something real. This is the FM translation zone and it will change a bit in look and feel to differentiate it from FM in general. In essence it is a temp zone, the idea that we want complete FM lang communities, so if we use this for translations and build up a lot in any one lang we will then start discussing a full FM install for that lang ok...it is doubtless that we will need to tweak the FM translation zone. I dont know how br,ru, or de char sets work in the editor...thats the first thing to check...also I need to find a god way to be able change the lang of the editor etc so, patience is a wonderful virtue :) if u find something kookie let me know and we can have a look quite quickly to see how to resolve it... in the meantime my priorities are coffee and gym :)...back in a few hrs adam -- Adam Hyde FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net + 31 6 2808 7108

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