[PD] mickfuzz's Pure Data FLOSS Manual, a message on behalf of Pd's community

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

A follow up to the Pd-list. This wasn't all too easy and it was a bit
clumsy, but I gave my best as an internet stalker and was able to find
information on who 'micckfuzz' is, where he teaches, his work email, and
got a response. Long story short: I'm now able to edit the FLOSS Manuals
book!

But seriously, besides its tutorial (many of which I also have problems
with, not to mention how outdated they are), I just think we need to forget
about a second and parallel Manual on the wild and bring things to Pd's
actual manual.

I'll see now how to invite others to this.

Anyway, we have a new github page where we're discussing documentation
things, for those interested, see
https://github.com/pure-data/pddp/issues/22

cheers!

Em sáb., 20 de nov. de 2021 às 21:10, Alexandre Torres Porres <
porres at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Dear 'mickfuzz', on behalf of The Pd community, I'm getting in touch with
> you (on this email copied to the Pd-list) in order for us to discuss the
> future of Pd's FLOSS Manuals as a community. Many of us would like to work
> on a revision of this manual or maybe, in fact, use a whole new platform
> for tutorials.
>
> For reference, please check an earlier thread on the email list
> https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2021-05/129652.html
>
> It is our understanding that the FLOSS Manuals, as it is, it's very
> outdated and should be archived for historical purposes. It is a manual
> based on Pd-extended. In fact, there is already an archived version of the
> manual here: http://archive.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/ Right now, the
> new FLOSS Manual that you seem to have created and maintain is just the
> same as the archived version, see:
> http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/introduction2/
>
> Again, one idea is to just delete this, keep the archived version, and we
> work on a new one somewhere else. This is because I, for one, can't even
> create a new account on FLOSS to start working on it. I tried getting in
> touch to create a new account and nothing happened.
>
> Please get back to the Pd list so we can discuss what we should and could
> do as a community.
>
> If for some reason we don't hear from you and the new version of the
> manual stays as it (the same as the archived version), we'll disconsider
> this new version/link in puredata.info and just keep a link to the
> archived version and work on new similar tutorials as a community somewhere
> else.
>
> thanks
> Alex
>
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