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for cross posting. If you're in London on the 18th October,
please join us. Please note start time changed to 3pm. See
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FLOSS Manuals UK hub warm-up <br style="" class=""
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Date: 18th October 2014<br style="" class="" clear="none">
Time: 3-6pm <br style="" class="" clear="none">
Place: Furtherfield Commons<br style="" class="" clear="none">
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FLOSS Manuals 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 develop
communities to produce high quality free manuals about Free
Software in their own language. 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
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FLOSS Manuals 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 â to fix a spelling mistake, add a
more detailed explanation, write a new chapter, or start a
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FLOSS Manuals now consists of 3 independent language
communities (French, English, Finnish) 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
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The afternoon is convened by Larisa Blazic, Mick Fuzz and
Rachel Baker. Mick is a long-term contributor at FLOSS Manuals
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. <br style="" class="" clear="none">
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Contacts: Lara <lab_webATyahoo.com>; Mick - FM
<mickATflossmanuals.net></div>
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