The FLOSS Manuals Foundation

FLOSS Manuals (FM) is a collection of different language communities that produce original documentation about Free Software. This site is the home for the The FLOSS Manuals Foundation (FMF), which oversees and supports the general activities of the various language communities:

History

FLOSS Manuals English was launched in 2007 to remedy the deficit of good free documentation about Free Software. Our primary strategy since the beginning has been to develop communities to produce high quality free manuals about Free Software in their own language.

Today we have more than 120 books in more than 30 languages and more than 3,000 contributors over 5 independent language communities (French, English, Farsi, Dutch, Finnish).

In 2011 the FLOSS Manuals Foundation (FMF) was created to provide resources and support to all language community groups, start new language communities, and oversee the operations of the FM network in general.

Supporters

 

Aspiration - a US based non-profit which has helped FLOSS Manuals in more ways than we can mention. Most recently and concretely they have done a review of our publishing platform and are providing facilitaiton services for the GSoC Documentation Summit which is co-organised by FLOSS Manuals.
http://aspirationtech.org

Greenhost is the Dutch ISP that provides most of the hosting services for FLOSS Manuals.
http://www.greenhost.nl

Seravo has helped develop many of the tools that FLOSS Manuals uses; they provide continued support in maintenance and systems administration, and they also have helped the Finnish and French FLOSS Manuals communities establish their technical framework.
http://seravo.fi/

Sourcefabric continues to support FLOSS Manuals by lending development support to the project and promoting us whenever they can.
http://www.sourcefabric.org

Digitale Pioneers provides strong moral support and initial technical development funds.
http://www.digitalpioneers.org