[CREATE] publish book about LGM meeting

Mon Apr 26 17:42:00 PDT 2010

Or, I would even prefer to use the wiki and use some common scripts to
generate LaTeX files...all web-based...IMO, I love scribus, but more
interested in automated workflows.

Jon

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Schrijver <eric at authoritism.net> wrote:
> Awesome.
>
> Craig said:
>>>>>> I think you know the correct answer to that one... produce the source in
>>>>>> a version system .. and convert the final text into Scribus
>
> This is for the wiki, I suppose, but do you (or anyone) have any experience using scribus in this way? I think it is quite interesting
>
> I am especially interested in scripting scribus so that it can ‘compile’ the versioned source files to a layout automatically.
>
> You could call a scribus script on the post-commit hook of your versioning system
>
> in many cases I guess Latex would be simpler for such a thing—but that has its limitations…
>
> --
> Eric Schrijver
>
> Op 27 apr 2010, om 01:32 heeft Jon Phillips het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I'm also adding Christopher Adams who published http://freesouls.cc
>> with Joi Ito last year. Would love to have his input on, but also
>> don't want to overload this process to the point of failure in too
>> many bodies.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>> Totally. Maybe the thing todo is to start a wikipage about this book.
>>> Something like Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 Proceedings
>>>
>>> Are they proceedings or something else?
>>>
>>> I like the idea of making it more of interviews and unique content.
>>> I'd love to help with this and get my company to help too.
>>>
>>> Here, I made a wiki page to push this forward. Please add your thoughts.
>>>
>>> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2010_Book
>>>
>>> Also, femke, what about flossmanuals? And some form of book sprint? I
>>> had a beer with Adam last week who was stranded in SF...
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Mario Behling <mb at mariobehling.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> a book sounds great. We would like to join in. We have resources to
>>>> translate to Vietnamese and I would be interested to publish a version
>>>> in Vietnam.
>>>>
>>>> - Mario
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, this would all be very cool! I can vouch for Wang Lingzheng's
>>>>> work and know her project in Beijing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to see this project happen. Yes, totally. Free free free.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/23/10 1:10 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2010/4/23 lingzheng wang <wanglingzheng000 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>      can i  create one book about LGM meeting in June?  i mean need consider
>>>>>>>> copyright and other things etc. welcome for every one's suggestion.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If the book is licensed with something from freedomdefined.org, and
>>>>>>> uses the freely-licensed images that will inevitably be posted to
>>>>>>> Flickr and elsewhere, I would say that this would be a very welcome
>>>>>>> contribution :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There are  interesting pictures and words in this book in my opinion, i can
>>>>>>>> write in English and Chinese after  i interview designers who join LGM
>>>>>>>> meeting, then introduce opensource graphics to Chinese designers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am happy to help you improve the English text in the book; what
>>>>>>> software will you use to make it? If you use a public version control
>>>>>>> system, the book could be made collaboratively :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you know the correct answer to that one... produce the source in
>>>>>> a version system .. and convert the final text into Scribus
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>> _______________________________
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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>>
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