<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27639">Hi all,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28334" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27875" style="" class=""><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28335" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27875" style="" class="">Bellow is invitation for all UK based Libre Graphics enthusiasts, please join us!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28336" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27875" style="" class=""><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28337" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27875" style="" class="">FLOSS
Manuals UK hub warm-up</span>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid6"><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27876" style="" class=""> 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 </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27878" style="" class=""><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27877" style="" class="">develop communities to
produce high quality free manuals about Free
Software in their own language.</b></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27879" style="" class=""> 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
contributors. </span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid8"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28005" style="" class=""><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28004" style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28003" style="" class=""> 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 – to fix a spelling
mistake, add a more detailed explanation, write
a new chapter, or start a whole new manual on a
topic.</span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid10"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28002" style="" class=""><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28001" style="" class="">FLOSS Manuals</b></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28180" style="" class=""> now consists of 3
independent language communities (</span><span style="" class=""><b style="" class="">French, English, Finnish</b></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27990" style="" class="">) 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 publishing.</span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid12"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28000" style="" class="">The
afternoon is convened by Larisa Blazic, Mick
Fuzz and Rachel Baker. Mick is a long-term
contributor at FLOSS Manual</span><span style="" class="">s</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27999" style="" class=""> 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. </span></div>
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<div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid14"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27998" style="" class="">Contacts: Lara </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28171" style="" class=""><lab_webATyahoo.com>; Mick - FM <mickATflossmanuals.net></span><br style="" class=""></div><div style="" class="" id="yiv5799624669magicdomid16"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27997" style="" class="">Date:
18th October 2014</span><br class="" style=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27991" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><font size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27996" style="" class="">Time:
2-6pm <br style="" class=""></span></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27993" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" class=""><font size="3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_27992" style="" class="">Place: Furtherfield Commons</span></font></div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28178" style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28177" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412531801423_28176" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>