First Post

[Dado Sutter]

Hello Guys,
Here I am, ready for some action :)

Cheers
Dado

[Martin Guy]

On 12 February 2011 02:12, Dado Sutter <dados...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>   Here I am, ready for some action :)

OK, what do you think about a suitable copyright?
Sergio thinks putting the EluaOnMizar32 book on the elua projects site
is a good idea.
I've not put any content into the one I cobbled together in a manic
afternoon, so no work lost there.
I haven't poured the wiki contents and circuit diagrams into any container yet.

Dado, if you can create a suitable structure I'll be happy to work there.
Is everyone happy with MarkDown as an input language and the git-gittery hassle?

M

[Dado Sutter]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 16:28, Martin Guy <marti...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12 February 2011 02:12, Dado Sutter <dados...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>   Here I am, ready for some action :)

OK, what do you think about a suitable copyright?

Well, lawish is definitely not my thing but I think we could go like all the other projects alike, which seem to be Creative Commons or something of the kind.

Sergio thinks putting the EluaOnMizar32 book on the elua projects site
is a good idea.

I'm ready to move the github repo to the eLua "organization" on github if you authorize.
 

I've not put any content into the one I cobbled together in a manic
afternoon, so no work lost there.
I haven't poured the wiki contents and circuit diagrams into any container yet.

For the wiki, I suggest we use a special section on the eLua Users Wiki too. The github wiki is not as good as MoinMoin is and we try to avoid spreading the support to too many tools. We can control access in the books pages separately from the rest of the wiki.

Dado, if you can create a suitable structure I'll be happy to work there.

Sure, as suggested above. Can I:
- create a eLuaOnMizar32Book project under the eLua organization @github ?
- create a special wiki section on wiki.eluaproject.net only for the book ?
 

Is everyone happy with MarkDown as an input language and the git-gittery hassle?

No :)

Best
Dado



 

   M

[Martin Guy]

On 12 February 2011 19:37, Dado Sutter <dados...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, as suggested above. Can I:
> - create a eLuaOnMizar32Book project under the eLua organization @github ?
> - create a special wiki section on wiki.eluaproject.net only for the book ?

Brill

>> Is everyone happy with MarkDown as an input language and the git-gittery
>> hassle?
>
> No :)

Which? (Or both?)

[Martin Guy]

>> - create a special wiki section on wiki.eluaproject.net only for the book ?

Don't we already have a wiki page for this? The proto-TOC
If github will process Markdown into a printable PDF I'm happy (but
I'm a stickler for good typography - a semi-auto-page-index would be
useful etc)

Can MarkDown do that? Can any of our wiki engines?

M

[Dado Sutter]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 19:19, Martin Guy <marti...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12 February 2011 19:37, Dado Sutter <dados...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure, as suggested above. Can I:
> - create a eLuaOnMizar32Book project under the eLua organization @github ?
> - create a special wiki section on wiki.eluaproject.net only for the book ?

Brill

Translation pls :) :)

>> Is everyone happy with MarkDown as an input language and the git-gittery
>> hassle?
>
> No :)

Which? (Or both?)

We prefere MoinMoin to the github wiki. Apart from some few (but nice) integration features with the repos (to which we have written MoinMoin macros already), it is much more limited than what we have in MoinMoin.

If you, SimpleMachines or anything else related to our projects and partnerships need (now or one day), I can host more independent MoinMoin wikis in our host servers too.

Best
Dado
 

[Martin Guy]

On 12 February 2011 22:23, Martin Guy <marti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> a semi-auto-page-index would be useful

Sorry,that doesn't look very clear. I mean something that will
generate an alphabetical subject index at the back of the book with
all the right page numbers in it.

[Dado Sutter]

James Snyder is our wiki expert (and some of my kids on the Lab too) but I'm afraid they are not here (yet).
We can ask on the eLua list if necessary.

   M

Dado




 

[Dado Sutter]

MoinMoin has a (very simple) macro that generates nice indexes.
Of course this is not a book-oriented tool but just one of the nice wiki features.

Which makes me think if there is not a web tool/service oriented to collaborative book writing.
I'm copying Vagner and Mauricio here, my web-experts (among many other things, including embedded now :), to see if we hear some more on this.

Best
Dado

[Dado Sutter]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 19:54, Mauricio Henrique Bomfim <maurici...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dado,

  http://writeboard.com is a free service for writing things
collaboratively. It's very very simple, not specifically for books and
solve just the collaboration and revision part of the problem. I think
you'll see it as one more tool that lacks everything else in the world
to be good enough. ;) . I just recommend to give a try, without much
expectation.

Thank you very much Mauricio,
If you don't know a decent one it is because it does not exist :)
I think the best way to go is to use local tools and a nice versioning system.
I'm not the right one to suggest the best writing tool (and I'm afraid of the complexity of some :)

[]s

Mauricio

Thanks again
Best
Dado




 

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[Dado Sutter]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:04, Mauricio Henrique Bomfim <maurici...@gmail.com> wrote:

It is not true. ;)

> I think the best way to go is to use local tools and a nice versioning
> system.
> I'm not the right one to suggest the best writing tool (and I'm afraid of
> the complexity of some :)
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>> Mauricio