Hi, all.
I was also a contributor in the (first ever!!!) FLOSSManuals booksprint in Paris, which was awesome. (Alexandre DID order the champignons, BTW. The waiter was wrong :)
I continually regret that this hasn't gone anywhere. I think about it all the time, and have made a few starts to revive the project on the English side over the years.
Unfortunately, I have little time, with a growing family (wife and 5 kids, now) and full-time work, a small business on the side, and many other small projects that are always coming up.
Additionally, it's been difficult to find any other English-speaking writers who really want to commit. (I do a whole lot better with at least one other enthusiastic person, but regardless, it's more than one already overworked person can really do alone.)
I think part of the reason for this, as Alexandre mentions, is that people already see a really good and mostly complete manual from Tav, so why do we need another one?
Of course, the counter to this is that Tav's isn't an open community project. I don't know the licensing, but would it even be possible to continue developing it if he stopped?
So I think some discussion is merited about whether it is more desirable to create an official community manual, or to trust that Tav's will always be sufficient.
My 2 cents.
JF
On 06/22/2015 09:46 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Maren Hachmann wrote:
A more theoretical question: Would Elisa or someone else from FLOSSmanuals some day want to brave a second effort of organizing people for Inkscape Docs? To make a manual which aims for completeness, *and* user-friendly-ness?
Having participatied in the making of the first one, I still have to ask: why would it be superior to Tav's one?
The way I see it, not having yet another complete user manual is a non-issue. What the community does need is tons, tons of high-quality step-by-step tutorials how to design good-looking works of art. But for that to happen you need to find people who are actual artists and get them to write that stuff. Not an eas thing to do.
Alex
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