Book Sprint Tools was:(Re: [wsfii-discuss] a couple of things)

Tue Aug 23 14:38:43 UTC 2005

Hi again,

Tomas Krag wrote:

> Looks really nice.
>
> Generally I have to say though, that I am much more concerned about a 
> good tool for creating the content, and much less worried about a tool 
> for presenting it/creating a printable book out of it.

I like the wiki methods.. I expect we will take that path more when we 
get back on to the dev..

>
> That's what i like about hieraki, it focuses on being a nice clean 
> hierarchical interface for authoring a book, rather than including POD 
> stuff.

I think you recommended hieraki once before so thaks for the 
reminder..so many great tools out there..sorry missed you last week in 
Denmark.. see you here in October I trust..

easy

James

> cheers
>
> /tomas
>
>
> james stevens wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> SPC.org has a part developed collab publishing / pdf builder at 
>> http://own.spc.org .. currently presenting a  doublesided full colour 
>> A3++ template.
>>
>> Its due for a second phase.. anyone fancy chipping please get in 
>> contact.. be gentle readers..
>>
>> easy
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>> Tomas Krag wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding Book Sprint tools, I would be very interested in hearing 
>>> more about potential tools for collaborative authoring. I am 
>>> currently leaning towards doing the Book Sprint either with a 
>>> wiki-like tool called hieraki or alternatively directly on 
>>> wikibooks.org
>>>
>>> I prefer the interface of hieraki, but the organisational and 
>>> mind-share advantage of mediawiki is not to be ignored :-)
>>>
>>> Any suggestions, comments etc.?
>>>
>>> /t
>>>
>>>
>>> Julian Priest wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:16:19AM -0700, Jo Walsh wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:34:01AM +0100, hugh barnard wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>>> - Suggest we put a local print publications stream
>>>>>> into the mix somehow. Important for every non-techie
>>>>>> and everyone on the other side of the digital divide..
>>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a very, very good idea. I hear Mute have some nice
>>>>> print-on-demand stuff going on. Wiki driven, corner crank printing
>>>>> press. That would be good to try and seed something which may then be
>>>>> permanent, too.
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just to add to this a little - one of the pre wsfii tracks in the
>>>> workshop is the Book Sprint http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/BookSprint
>>>> which needs just this kind of collaborative authoring -> print system
>>>> as well so might be good to focus efforts on one toolset?
>>>> Apart from the mute tools, there were other similar projects already
>>>> in some state of development in these projects that could be of use?
>>>>
>>>> http://wirelesslondon.info/PODwiki
>>>> http://own.spc.org
>>>>
>>>> chrs
>>>