[HacktionLab] finished proofreading - now need further help was: Tech Tools for Activists book

[Mike Harris]

Hi again,

This is great, it seems like we have finally arrived!

The next Climate Camp in August seems to me like a good date to aim for
to have it ready to distribute it there.

I propose then that we at least get a run printed by Oxford Green Print
(as we discussed at the April meeting in Oxford) and ferried up to
climate camp.  I can organise the printing and probably getting them up
there.

Artwork-wise, perhaps I propose asking Tony to do something simple based
around the style used for this year's BarnCamp flyers?  I think it would
be nice, though not essential, to have a photo for every article.

We've got some funds to get the first couple of runs going.  I can get a
quote off Green Print to use as a yardstick for others to get local
quotes as well...

what reckon ye?

Mike.

Mike Harris
w: http://mbharris.co.uk
t: +44 7811 671 893



ana wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I have now read the booki twice. Thanks so much to every one who have
> made it possible , it shows it is well thought and articulated, I'd said
> brilliant indeed - apart from a few small things ;)
>
> I have made the amendments I thought, like putting full words to the few
> acronyms that didn't have them, substituted some "n't"s with full
> "not"s, indicated in which chapter more info could be found instead of
> just "elsewhere" ...
>
> There are a few small things I feel could be further improved, but for
> which I need your help.
>
> ---- In the chapter about uploading your media:
>
> "Indymedia.org.uk allows you to upload video files anonymously but you
> don't get a streaming video player or an RSS feed."
>
> but you do get this in various local sites don't you? do we not want to
> include this? or mention the drupal capabilities, now that the drupal
> aggregator is going to be deployed soon?
>
> http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists
>
> ---- In the chapter on How to get pages removed from Google Cache
>
> this phrase is gramatically incorrect and can not be understood:
> "In this case, only the URL is needed. This process was repeated for the
> http:// and https:// pages, but it is if this is necessary. "
>
> I'd just write:
> "you need to repeat the process for the same urls, but writing "https"
> instead of "http" at the beginning"
> but the original phrase doesn't make it clear to me if i would be
> correct so I need help.
>
> ---- In the chapter Free as in Freedom, I have a minor problem with this
> phrase:
>
> There has never been a major virus outbreak on GNU/Linux,
>
> when has there been a minor one?
>
> I think we could say that "there has never been a virus outbreak", or at
> least that "virus outbreaks are unheard of" on gnu linux.
>
>
> ---- Further down the same chapter, this para,
>
> "What are the prospects and strategies for keeping the benefits of free
> software in an age of collaboration mediated by software services? One
> strategy, argued for in "The equivalent of free software for online
> services" by Kragen Sitaker (see <
> http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2006-July/000818.html>),
> is that centralised services need to be re-implemented as peer-to-peer
> services that can run on computers as free software under users'
> control. This is an extremely interesting strategy, but a very long term
> one, for it is both a computer science challenge and a social one. "
>
> I find a bit irrelevant for people not involved in developing software.
> I almost was put off from going on reading myself. Which would be a pity
> because the simil with restaurants and friends' houses is very valid.
>
> --- In the same chapter, in this phrase:
> "namely to ensure that people retain democratically self-managed control
> over their own information infrastructure"
>
> is the word "democratically" important? i would take it out for redundant.
>
> Thanks for all the work again, and for any help/opinion/vision you can
> give me now.
>
> ana
>
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