A follow up to the Pd-list. This wasn't all too easy and it was a bit clumsy, but I gave my best as an internet stalker and was able to find information on who 'micckfuzz' is, where he teaches, his work email, and got a response. Long story short: I'm now able to edit the FLOSS Manuals book!

But seriously, besides its tutorial (many of which I also have problems with, not to mention how outdated they are), I just think we need to forget about a second and parallel Manual on the wild and bring things to Pd's actual manual.

I'll see now how to invite others to this.

Anyway, we have a new github page where we're discussing documentation things, for those interested, see https://github.com/pure-data/pddp/issues/22

cheers!

Em sáb., 20 de nov. de 2021 às 21:10, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> escreveu:
Dear 'mickfuzz', on behalf of The Pd community, I'm getting in touch with you (on this email copied to the Pd-list) in order for us to discuss the future of Pd's FLOSS Manuals as a community. Many of us would like to work on a revision of this manual or maybe, in fact, use a whole new platform for tutorials.

For reference, please check an earlier thread on the email list https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2021-05/129652.html

It is our understanding that the FLOSS Manuals, as it is, it's very outdated and should be archived for historical purposes. It is a manual based on Pd-extended. In fact, there is already an archived version of the manual here: http://archive.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/ Right now, the new FLOSS Manual that you seem to have created and maintain is just the same as the archived version, see: http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/introduction2/ 

Again, one idea is to just delete this, keep the archived version, and we work on a new one somewhere else. This is because I, for one, can't even create a new account on FLOSS to start working on it. I tried getting in touch to create a new account and nothing happened.

Please get back to the Pd list so we can discuss what we should and could do as a community.

If for some reason we don't hear from you and the new version of the manual stays as it (the same as the archived version), we'll disconsider this new version/link in puredata.info and just keep a link to the archived version and work on new similar tutorials as a community somewhere else.

thanks
Alex