News

FLOSS Manuals's Booki is now Booktype

15th February, 2012

Not too long ago, we told you about our exciting new partnership with Czech-based organization Sourcefabric, which is at the cutting edge of media and technology. We are now pleased to announce the fruits of our collective labour: Booktype. The new and improved, free and open source, online collaborative publishing platform.

FLOSS Manuals mentioned in Forbes.com article on EBooks

8th February, 2012

The FLOSS Manuals platform is mentioned (along with our partners at Sourcefabric!) in the article "2012: The Year Of New Ebook Tools" on Forbes.com. The writer profiles many proprietary and some FLOSS options for creating e-books. Check it out!

Open Street Map manual now available in French

8th February, 2012

FLOSS Manuals Francophone is proud to present the first book in French about OpenStreetMap, available (of course!) under a free license (Creative Commons BY-SA).

Video ‘Future of the Book’ from Sourcefabric

3rd February, 2012

Sourcefabric who are working to take over from Flossmanuals on the development of Booki have put out the following video.

Finnish Scribus Manual and news from FLOSS Manuals Finnish

2nd February, 2012

The Finnish version of the Scribus manual has been completed and is now available at: http://fi.flossmanuals.net/scribus/.

All in all, fi.flossmanuals.net now represents approximately 2,000 PDF pages of open source documentation.