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* Should there be more kittens in the booklet? (tabby)
 
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* Develop task list to move forward & assign roles as far as possible (penguin)
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== Second IRC Meeting ==
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This was a meeting between 3 of us meant as a brief precursor to the
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* We should no longer use Booki as it is very unpopular for editing Mick requests that by way of a post mortem we:
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== TTFA 2 ==
 
== TTFA 2 ==

Revision as of 15:46, 17 April 2012

STOP PRESS: to accompany the first and second editions of this booklet, a new Tech Tools for Activism web site has recently been launched.

The second Hacktionlab tech tools project. These minutes from Hacklab Manchester 2011 contain some of the results of the discussion there.

TechToolsLogoTrans1.png


ToDo list

  • Decided on a new format/style guide (IRC meeting)
  • Make a resources list
  • Make a participants list
  • write up workflow plan (Ben G)
  • Organize IRC meeting (Ben G)
  • Enhance the Style Guide
  • Go through and check your own original contribtions - take out what you think isn't relelvant. Link out to more information and reduce the word count. (can we have a meeting about style and aims before we do this? Ben Green 20th Sep 2011)

Resource List

Resources we can link out to

Booki Developer Interaction

IRC interaction is recommended and happens at:

server: freenode.net
channel: #flossmanuals

Participants List

  • Co-ordinator/slave driver (Ben G)
  • Illustrator
    • Penguin: spoken to an artist and a graphic designer - both up for doing some illustrations / designs / cartoons. Yay! Have suggested they hold off until we make more progress on the content.
  • Design Consultant

First IRC Meeting

IRC logs for TTFA2 meeting

  • Sorting out how links to web documentation. (MH)
  • Review of current quality levels. (BG)
  • Agree / restate what the target audience is for TTfA (penguin)
  • Agree / restate what we are trying to convey (e.g. why to do something, how do do something) (penguin)
  • Should each article have a common structure? If so, what? (penguin)
  • Should there be more kittens in the booklet? (tabby)
  • Develop task list to move forward & assign roles as far as possible (penguin)

Second IRC Meeting

IRC logs for TTFA2 meeting

This was a meeting between 3 of us meant as a brief precursor to the

  • We should no longer use Booki as it is very unpopular for editing Mick requests that by way of a post mortem we:
* write to the developers and say why we are not using it, please add comments on why we are not using booki for TTFA2
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TTFA 2


Cover versions

TechToolsColourSmall.JPG TechTools2Colour.png