[HacktionLab] Printing booklet 1.1, Floss Manuals and broken links, etc.

[Adelayde Skidmore]

On 16/10/2011 15:30, beth at aktivix.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That all sounds fine, I hadn't realised that was the deal with the
> reprints. An errata bit on the website seems like a good idea. For the
> new version I've been replacing all the links with indymedia's own
> imc.li shortener. I don't know whether that would suffice rather than
> setting up a hacktionlab service - what do you all think?
Can we have an account on imc.li, so that we can go in and edit the
links should they change?  If so, then that sounds fine? 
>
> By the way: Alan ran a great workshop at the Free School in Sheffield
> yesterday about alternative social networking sites, and John and I
> spent the afternoon doing a Free Software clinic. It was all a bit
> last-minutey so we only had the one copy of Tech Tools to give out but
> we got a lot of people interested in indy.im and things :)
Excellent stuff Beth :)
>
> - Beth
>
> Quoting "Adelayde Skidmore" <adelayde at riseup.net>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> ==
>>>> From Ben Green
>>>>
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