FLOSS Manuals Books Published After Three-Day Sprint

The final day of the FLOSS Manuals documentation sprint at Google began with a bit of a reprieve from Sprintmeister Adam Hyde's dictum that we should do no new writing. He allowed us to continue work till noon, time that the KDE team spent partly in heated arguments over whether we had provided enough coverage of key topics (the KDE project architecture, instructions for filing bug reports, etc.), partly in scrutinizing dubious material the book had inherited from the official documentation, and (at least a couple of us) actually writing material for chapters that readers may or may not find useful, such as a glossary.

I worried yesterday that the excitement of writing a complete book would be succeeded by the boring work of checking flow and consistency. Some drudgery was involved, but the final reading allowed groups to revisit their ways of presenting concepts and bringing in the reader.