[HacktionLab] [FM Discuss] Press Release: Tunisian Activists Teach How To Bypass Internet Censorship

[mick fuzz]

with reference to alan's email about non free tools, interestingly
this is the only floss manuals with non free tools

the reason behind this is that it was felt that human rights trumped
free software advocacy in the case of this particular book. a
pragmatic decision to work around specific situations to do with
circumvention needs.

However the authors would be very happy to see a revised edition with
only free tools,
OR
also happy for the book to be republished with the non-free tools stripped out.

There's also some very interesting developments in relation to Booki
coming up, and the French Flossmanuals community are also very
interested in recreating a booki > scribus workflow .
As that community have close contacts with the scribus developers they
are going to try to make it easier to export from booki into scribus.
Or rather write a new importer to import the booki html in to scribus.

Interestingly enough (for all those that are into open standards) -
the booki-zip format, which is a structured series of html docs with a
table of contents and images, is very similar to the epub format,
so
we are looking to export to a very vanilla epub format to be able to
be imported by other programs like scribus, and maybe as a good
archiving format.

more soon!
mick in berlin

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:21 PM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
>
> *In New Book, Tunisian Activists Teach How To Bypass Internet Censorship*
>
> As the Arab spring turns to Arab autumn, with battles continuing to rage on
> throughout the Middle East, one intrepid group of Tunisian activists has
> recently released a handbook to help their peers fight the power – by
> breaking through government firewalls and getting on-line. The book entitled
> *Contourner la censure (et préserver son anonymat) *or *How To Bypass
> Internet Censorship (and Preserve Your Anonymity)* was originally created in
> English during a five-day relay book writing event, known as a “Book
> Sprint”, which took place in Berlin in late February of this year; it was
> subsequently *released via the FLOSS Manuals platform (FLOSS being an
> acronym for Free Libre and Open Source Software)*. FLOSS Manuals is a
> project founded and lead by New Zealand-born, Berlin-based social
> entrepreneur, Adam Hyde who says, “FLOSS Manuals is a community of about
> 3,000 registered contributors, working collaboratively across many languages
> and many countries to produce free documentation about free software. We
> often work together on projects related to human rights and advocacy and we
> are happy to do so since the areas of human freedom and software freedom are
> often closely interlinked .”
>
> While the majority of books available on the FLOSS Manuals site are more
> “high-tech how-to” (with titles related to popular web tools such as
> WordPress and Firefox) than “fight the power”, *How to Bypass Internet
> Censorship*, was put together by a knowledgeable and concerned group of
> hackers and activists  to “not only help you find your way in the diversity
> of tools and techniques that allow you to defeat Internet censorship
> and...also tell you more about how censorship works behind the curtain”.
>
> The recent Tunisian translation was organized by the Tunisian Association
> for Digital Freedom and represents a collaboration between FLOSS Manuals,
> The Digital Freedom Coalition, The International Federation for Human
> Rights, and Tunisian news and activism portal Fhimt.com.
>
> Since February 2011, *How To Bypass Internet Censorship (and Preserve Your
> Anonymity)* has been translated into Arabic, Farsi, French, Spanish, and
> Vietnamese, and organizers say that Chinese and Burmese versions are
> forthcoming
>
> *For more information, see: *
> http://contournerlacensure.net/
> http://www.howtobypassinternetcensorship.org/
> http://flossmanuals.net
>
> *Contact:
> Camille E. Acey
> FlossManuals.net
> +1 (347) 267 2016
> press at flossmanuals.net*
> --
>
> --
> Adam Hyde
> Founder, FLOSS Manuals
> Project Manager, Booki
> Book Sprint Facilitator
> mobile :+ 49 177 4935122
> identi.ca : @eset
> booki.flossmanuals.net : @adam
>
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