[PD] Pd FLOSS Manual, what to do with it?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

there's also yet another link here which seems to refer to the same content
of the new incarnation of the manual
http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/introduction2/

why? dear god, why?

Em seg., 31 de mai. de 2021 às 18:07, Alexandre Torres Porres <
porres at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Em seg., 31 de mai. de 2021 às 07:35, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> I agree. I think the current Pd-extended focused manual could be moved to
>> a Pd-extended location for historical reasons.
>>
>
> what's a "pd-extended location" and where is it?
>
>
>> The "main" Pd FLOSS manual should be Vanilla + links or sections to
>> active forks including the original Pd-extended manual. The current manual
>> could then be refactored/updated and existing links would not be *terribly*
>> broken.
>>
>
> It has now come to my attention that we have different versions of this
> manual. There's an archived version =>
> http://archive.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/
>
> And a new version created two months ago by 'mickfuzz' which is actually
> the same! https://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data - The Pd Vanila html
> manual references to this link, by the way, and also to a french version
> here:  https://fr.flossmanuals.net/puredata/introduction/
>
> Note that the french version is considerably different, so yeah, we have
> quite some chaos... there are two versions somehow, different and
> independent unofficial takes on what a Pd manual is and should be and
> depending on what language you speak you get a different idea and
> information? :)
>
> Well, I'd love to help sort things out, but I don't know where to start,
> it's all decentralized in a very messy way.
>
> We need to coordinate the efforts if anything is to be done. I speak no
> french, for instance
>
> Where are the floss manuals people anyway? Who is 'mickfuzz'? Who's
> working on the french version?
>
> How could I get involved in the english one?
>
> Thanks
>
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