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# Iterative Book Development Manifesto

by Adam Hyde, June 26-27 2012 

ok..so i have too much time in my hands...i was pondering the things we do in FLOSS Manuals in abstract and thought we could almost come up kind of short (shudder) manifesto for the kinds of methods we use for book production. I was trying to capture something that could encompass all the activities from Book Sprints to rolling manual development to remote update sprints etc etc etc

so... here it is:

## Iterative Book Development (IBD) Manifesto:

We value:

1. **Contributors and facilitators** over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
2. **Collaboration** over indiviualised production
3. **Here and now production** over sometime soon production
4. **Meaningful credit** for all contributors over single author attribution

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Sources:

- http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2012-June/007446.html
- http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2012-June/007465.html
- http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/iterative-book-development-manifesto/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20131225055321/
http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/iterative-book-development-manifesto/
-												adding more content.

											
										
										
											2015-03-30 14:57:20 +00:00
+								# Iterative Book Development Manifesto
 								by Adam Hyde, June 26-27 2012
 								ok..so i have too much time in my hands...i was pondering the things we do in FLOSS Manuals in abstract and thought we could almost come up kind of short (shudder) manifesto for the kinds of methods we use for book production. I was trying to capture something that could encompass all the activities from Book Sprints to rolling manual development to remote update sprints etc etc etc
-												some formatting fixes.

											
										
										
											2015-05-15 21:33:45 +00:00
+								so... here it is:
-												adding more content.

											
										
										
											2015-03-30 14:57:20 +00:00
-												some formatting fixes.

											
										
										
											2015-05-15 21:33:45 +00:00
+								## Iterative Book Development (IBD) Manifesto:
-												adding more content.

											
										
										
											2015-03-30 14:57:20 +00:00
 								We value:
-												Update 2012-06-03-iterative-book-development.txt
											
										
										
											2016-04-09 21:27:17 +00:00
+. **Contributors and facilitators** over ‘editors’ and ‘authors’
-												minor formatting fixes.

											
										
										
											2016-06-23 21:40:31 +00:00
+. **Collaboration** over indiviualised production
-												Update 2012-06-03-iterative-book-development.txt
											
										
										
											2016-04-09 22:35:50 +00:00
+. **Here and now production** over sometime soon production
 . **Meaningful credit** for all contributors over single author attribution
-												adding more content.

											
										
										
											2015-03-30 14:57:20 +00:00
 								----
 								Sources:
-												minor fixes

											
										
										
											2016-04-06 19:43:11 +00:00
+								- http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2012-June/007446.html
 								- http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2012-June/007465.html
 								- http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/iterative-book-development-manifesto/
-												forcing line returns in URLs, there seems no other way to get them to break :-(

											
										
										
											2016-06-23 21:53:33 +00:00
+								- https://web.archive.org/web/20131225055321/
 								http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/iterative-book-development-manifesto/