Hi, all. I was also a contributor in the (first ever!!!) FLOSSManuals booksprint in Paris, which was awesome. (Alexandre DID order the champignons, BTW. The waiter was wrong :)
I continually regret that this hasn't gone anywhere. I think about it all the time, and have made a few starts to revive the project on the English side over the years. Unfortunately, I have little time, with a growing family (wife and 5 kids, now) and full-time work, a small business on the side, and many other small projects that are always coming up. Additionally, it's been difficult to find any other English-speaking writers who really want to commit. (I do a whole lot better with at least one other enthusiastic person, but regardless, it's more than one already overworked person can really do alone.) I think part of the reason for this, as Alexandre mentions, is that people already see a really good and mostly complete manual from Tav, so why do we need another one? Of course, the counter to this is that Tav's isn't an open community project. I don't know the licensing, but would it even be possible to continue developing it if he stopped? So I think some discussion is merited about whether it is more desirable to create an official community manual, or to trust that Tav's will always be sufficient. My 2 cents. JF On 06/22/2015 09:46 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Maren Hachmann wrote: > >> A more theoretical question: >> Would Elisa or someone else from FLOSSmanuals some day want to brave a >> second effort of organizing people for Inkscape Docs? To make a manual >> which aims for completeness, *and* user-friendly-ness? > Having participatied in the making of the first one, I still have to > ask: why would it be superior to Tav's one? > > The way I see it, not having yet another complete user manual is a > non-issue. What the community does need is tons, tons of high-quality > step-by-step tutorials how to design good-looking works of art. But > for that to happen you need to find people who are actual artists and > get them to write that stuff. Not an eas thing to do. > > Alex > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! > OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors > network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms > for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
