John - Play along (you are not the only player, of course)...
Collaboration would mean some sort of harmonization; Massimo "had trouble" w/ sphinx (not sure what he tried) - it's reST with extensions (and reST is a tad less "regular" than some other markups, so attempts at treating it the same way for wikis failed to hit the sweet spot, but there are examples - in Pycon-tech, and moin-moin for example). The "only 2 people" Massimo pointed out isnt' - they are the only 2 he saw give him stuff, and he made assumptions based on that. An open-source book, Python 3 Patterns and Idioms ( http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/Python3Patterns/Index.php) also uses Sphinx (and also has been frustrated w/ lack of submissions, but this is I believe more to do with the lack of an interactive, live version for sphinx than anything). "Anything goes" sounds good initially - but results are the proof; it can generate relief (no one likes change, so learning something new, or rather not needing to is generally received with "appreciation")... As Massimo will attest, as long as it's a one man show - one contributor, one decision, then "what I want" works pretty well. Massimo writes in LaTex - shall we write a latex source, and post a PDF? As long as opionions abound, there will be "I think I'll try".... time and actual results are the only real measure. I'm in the Sphinx camp (with a little off on LaTex, and definitely a Scribus fan, as I build and bug report on the release candidates ... but would not necessarily use either of those for this; LaTex / beemer is what I'm trying for the time being for presentations; Scribus for brochures and manuals). While everyone will find it easy to use what they are comfortable with, I still challenge people to ask "what are we trying to serve? How will we deliver? What will be best for this?" --- that discussion (along with some Prototyping that goes far enough) is what I would like to encourage. The "whatever" approach is just.... easy. (Not much more than a "don't rock anyone's boat" approach, and not necessarily very effective in the mid- to long run). Regards, - Yarko On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM, JohnMc <maruadventu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yarko, I'll play it by ear initially till we see what the volume will > be. If Sphinx markup can be manipulated in a reasonable fashion we > can explore that route. If the volume warrants some level of > automation I don't see why a article submission system could not be > developed with Web2Py. In the same vein an entire search, index and > publish system could be implemented for the reader that could > incorporate web, PDF, slides and videos. > > JohnMc > > On Jul 18, 9:54 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM, gluegl <edpime...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I personally favor SlideShare, ScribD, DocStoc, Vimeo, Truveo/ > > > YouTube... > > > However every is encourage to contribute in whatever manner they feel > > > they can do the best job at it. > > > At least something positive is being done, which a great step in the > > > right direction. > > > > That's nice..... > > > > My sepcific question was about your choice of Scribus - and if you chose > > "printed" document generation (Scribus's forte), and if you considered > > Sphinx (which generates online, static, searchable document as an > option). > > > > -Y > > > > > > > > > -G > > > > > On Jul 18, 5:43 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Scribus (starting w/ 1.3.5 I think) also has rendered frames, e.g. > > > > LaTex.... > > > > > > Any reason you did not consider Sphinx? That gives indexs, > > > searchability, > > > > both web and pdf presentation.... > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, JohnMc <maruadventu...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Yarko, > > > > > > > Well I have drafted my article using OOffice and am preparing to > > > > > publish in Scribus. Text/graphics format. I can embed a link to > video. > > > > > I don't know if I can embed video in a Scribus document but I will > > > > > find out. Being the 'test subject' I fully expect a bunch of > feedback. > > > > > > > If the format is acceptable I would be willing to act as > 'publisher' > > > > > so long as an agreed upon submission format can be adhered to. I > would > > > > > want it make it as drop-in and publish as possible. > > > > > > > JohnMc > > > > > > > On Jul 18, 2:18 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > many questions I have before getting to "where"... > > > > > > > > What form? Tutorials of what sort? Videos? Text? Interactive w/ > > > > > excercises? > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:12 PM, gluegl <edpime...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Will follow Massimo and the members of this group advice... > > > > > > > Where do you suggest? > > > > > > > -G > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
