<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:10px"><div style="" class="">Dea all,</div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Apologies for x-posting. A bunch of us are organising Floss Manuals event at Furtherfield Commons in London - It would be great to see you there! Please see below.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
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Manuals UK hub warm-up</span>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid6"><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span style="" class=""> 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 </span><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">develop communities to
produce high quality free manuals about Free
Software in their own language.</b></span><span style="" class=""> 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. </span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid8"><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span style="" class=""> 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.</span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid10"><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span style="" class=""> now consists of 3
independent language communities (</span><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">French, English, Finnish</b></span><span style="" class="">) 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.</span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid12"><span style="" class="">The
afternoon is convened by Larisa Blazic, Mick
Fuzz and Rachel Baker. Mick is a long-term
contributor at FLOSS Manual</span><span style="" class="">s</span><span style="" class=""> 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. </span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid14"><span style="" class="">Contacts: Lara </span><span style="" class=""><lab_webATyahoo.com>; Mick - FM <mickATflossmanuals.net></span><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class="" id="yiv0994171282magicdomid16"><span style="" class="">Date:
18th October 2014</span><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><font size="1"><span style="" class="">Time:
2-6pm <br style="" class=""></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><span style="" class=""><font size="1">Place: Furtherfield Commons<br style="" class="">Map: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery/visit</font><br style="" class=""></span></div><div style="" class=""> </div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>