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Challenges from a book sprint: the great things about ignorance and disorder

By Andy Oram
March 24, 2009

e tried to write a conventional computer manual in two days, and the experience has made me reconsider the conventions of computer manuals. The computer field is still in the kindergarten stage of exploring serious questions of how people learn, questions at the center of psychology and pedagogy for many decades. Even those disciplines don't quite get it, because they're fumbling with the instant messaging culture that gives us so many more tools today for learning together.

Free book, community gathering, Richard Stallman to write foreword

By Andy Oram
March 19, 2009

Update to my posting about a book-writing project this coming weekend in Cambridge, Mass. (March 21-22). RMS will write a foreword for the book.

Croudscribing: Can the free software community create a book in two days?

By Andy Oram
March 15, 2009

Next weekend, March 21-22, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Free Software Foundation and FLOSS Manuals are coordinating volunteers to write a book about the command line in two days.

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