FLOSS Manuals

We were a bit slow getting a news letter going…took 3 years but a good read now that we have it…

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The 5th Newsletter from FLOSS Manuals!

You might have thought we were asleep, tired, or retired since the last Newsletter was in early May. No no…far from it. We have been too busy to send out trifling things like newsletters ;) News is big in FM land - we have had something of a change in our operations with the addition of some amazing new tools to help collaboration and many many other things… this is what we have been up to (in part):

 May 16, 2011 - 12:31pm | By Seth Schoen

Documenting Tools for Beating Internet Censorship

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Network censorship and surveillance is a booming business. Censorship schemes continue to fragment the Internet and new censorship proposals are constantly introduced around the world, including in liberal democracies. (Lately governments have gotten fascinated by the idea of forcing ISPs to censor particular sites from the DNS, so users can’t find them even though the sites are still there.) Censors usually assume that most Internet users don’t know how to bypass the censorship (or, often, that many users won’t even realize the censorship is going on!).

FLOSS Manuals strikes again

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FLOSS Manuals is a collection of (free and open source) manuals about free and open source software together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses those tools. Contributors to FLOSS Manuals have a created terrific new book called Basic Internet Security that fills an important niche by explaining internet security issues and solutions in a practical, easy-to-understand manner.

1.4.2011: FLOSS Manuals Suomi tukee avoimen lähdekoodin käyttäjiä (Finnish FLOSS)

Creating a library of FLOSS Manuals

With so little documentation on most FLOSS, one site aims to help us help ourselves. But why do so few applications have manuals to start with?

By Amy Vernon on Fri, 05/14/10 - 7:03pm.

The work by FLOSS Manuals to develop gather and develop “free manuals for free software” continues apace, but some continue to wonder just why documentation for open source software has been so relatively rare

FLOSS Manuals

Collaborative² Futures

Mike Linksvayer, March 25th, 2010

FLOSS Manuals, true to its name, produces manuals for free software applications. The manuals themselves are freely licensed and often written in book sprints. This January, as part of the Transmediale festival in Berlin, FLOSS Manuals attempted its first non-manual booksprint — a considerably harder task, as no structure is implied. Only the book title, Collaborative Futures, was given — a collaborative experiment about the future of collaboration.

Von null auf Buch in 120 Stunden (From Zero to Book in 120 Hours)

Mit fünf Mitstreitern hat Adam Hyde in nur fünf Tagen ein Buch verwirklicht - von der Idee bis zur Druckversion. Ein Beispiel für “Free Culture” und “Kollaboration”.von MEIKE LAAFF

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BERLIN taz | Fünf Tage, sechs Menschen und eine Software: Für Adam Hyde reicht das aus, um ein Buch von der Idee bis zur druckfertigen Version entstehen zu lassen. Klingt irre? Das glauben auch viele Verleger, sagt Hyde und schüttelt die kleingelockte graue Haarmähne. “Die glauben das nicht einmal, wenn man ihnen das fertige Werk unter die Nase hält”, sagt er und fuchtelt mit einem kleinen weißen Bändchen in der Hand herum. Es ist das Buch, das Hyde und seine Mitstreiter vom 18. bis 22. Januar geschrieben haben - und das sie am Samstag auf dem Transmediale-Festival für Kunst und digitale Kultur in Berlin präsentierten. “Booksprint” nennt Hyde es.

23.12.2009: Korkeatasoinen Inkscape-ohjelma käyttöohjeineen nyt suomeksi (Finnish FLOSS)

25.9.2009: FLOSS Manuals tuo avoimen lähdekoodin oppaat Suomeen (Finnish FLOSS)

Interview: Adam Hyde, FLOSS Manuals

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Adam Hyde heads up FLOSS Manuals, a nonprofit foundation focused on the creation of open-source, how-to documentation that addresses how to use free software. FLOSS

[and Hyde’s experience with it] has been documented somewhat extensively online, and I was fortunate to get to ask him a handful of questions about what he’s learned along the way. He has been extremely generous in sharing with us such insightful, in-depth responses.