[HacktionLab] Printing booklet 1.1, Floss Manuals and broken links, etc. (was: Booklets, and more booklets)

[Adelayde Skidmore]

Hi List,

I had a telephone conversation with Ben today where we agreed that it
would be okay for us to go ahead and do an extra run of the existing
booklet, in lieu of the new one coming out in the new year.

We did discuss the issue of the broken links, which not only would
affect the new run of 200 booklets, but also affects the 1,000 or so
that are already out there, and the copy downloadable from
hacktivista.net/book

>From this discussion, I propose that we have an errata section on the
page at hacktivista.net/book that provides a list of broken links, page
numbers and okay links.

In addition to this, I think we should ask Floss Manuals if they can do
something about the issue to help, as it is primarily their links that
are broken due to content that's been moved, afaik.  M3shrom, can you be
a liaison for this / help sort this out?

And on from this even further, I propose we set up our own links
forwarding for use in the next booklet.  I don't me provide a free links
shortening service that we can offer to other people, but rather just
one we use internally that we have control over: that we can ammend as
and when we need to.

This could be either simply using Apache redirects: clumsy, but
effectively and we can do it right away - so that hacktivista.net/vpn
can redirect to the appropriate FM page.  Or it could be using a
dedicated URL (hack.ly would be nice) and either Apache conf/.htaccess
style or a db backed little app....

On the new booklet front, it'll go to print on Monday, and I'm happy to
try to do the errata page in the next week or so: or has someone already
compiled this and if so, do you fancy doing it?

So to sum up:

1. Graham and I are going to do a run of 200 copies of version 1.1 of
the booklet primarily for the Bookfair next weekend.

2. I propose we should put errata up on the wiki page to cover broken links.

3. I propose that m3shrom help to get Floss Manuals to fix their broken
links, providing redirects, if he can..

4. I propose we use our own URL shorter/redirector in future.

How does that sound?

Mike.


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