TTFA2 Style Guide

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Style Guide

This is NOT the current style guide

  • 1,200 for the Intro and 600 words for each chapter aka article: Make it shorter if you can and accept that some could be longer.
  • Articles are self-contained in their own right, bound together by the introduction.
  • Article format ought to be: user story, current practice, software solution, (optional user story)
  • Articles should be introductions, without going into detailed step-by-step instructions: signposts to the information on the net.
  • Articles are limited to being about software technology.
  • It's a guide for NGO and grass roots activists.
  • Focus should be on helping people to approach these topics, not be dictatorial nor about scare-mongering.
  • Humour and pictures should be used where possible, but not over used.
  • Images should be between 200 and 300 pixels wide, get a suitable image resolution.
  • Only use headers for title of the article and sub-headings.
  • It will be a PDF.
  • Anything we control is under CC attribution licence. Add licensing info and sources to the to article itself.
  • Add URL references to the article itself using http://tiny.booki.cc/