[Open-education] Community Session scheduled (December 11) - Presenting the Open Education Handbook

Sat Dec 6 20:05:05 UTC 2014

That's a real shame Mick - but I'll add your ideas to the etherpad 
<https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Education_Working_Group_Call> and fingers 
crossed Jo can make it.

Marieke

On 06/12/2014 19:16, Mick FM wrote:
>
> On 05/12/14 13:30, Marieke Guy wrote:
>> A reminder that this session is taking place next week: Thursday 
>> December 11 at 10.00AM UTC.
>>
>> We'd really love to have you come along and help us decide what to do 
>> with the fruits of *your* labour (the open education community help 
>> build the handbook)!
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm sorry I can't make this meet but I have a quick suggestion about 
> the manual.
> I would suggest creating a splash page for the manual like this one. 
> Which offers a quick way to download the book in epub, pdf - and 
> invites further contributions.
> http://collaborative-futures.org/
> (Unfortunately, the link there for HTML points to booki.cc which is no 
> longer maintained. I'll try to find them to ask them to update that 
> link to here - http://flossmanuals.net/collaborative-futures/ )
>
> In terms of how the HTML pages are presented, a little bit of 
> scripting could create a themed version of the published manual. What 
> I mean by this is that some branding of the OKF or the writing project 
> could be put into the header and footer of each chapter page.
>
> This is how the civicrm community like to do things at 
> http://book.civicrm.org/ - They write on a booktype platform at 
> flossmanuals.net - but publish a themed HTML version with their own 
> URL. They are then able to keep older versions as an archive here. 
> http://book.civicrm.org/user/version/index.php
>
> Our developer Jo may be able to attend the meeting to explain this a 
> bit more but I wanted to write this email just in case she cannot attend.
>
> nice one
> Mick
>
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