[FM Community] Rebooting FLOSS Manuals - 2026 - 20 years on.

[Mick Fuzz]

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all well! I just wanted to give a couple of updates on the 
FLOSS Manuals reboot. I'll come back with more sooner the date. :)

Firstly, I wanted to thank Helen Varley Jamieson and Martin Kean for 
working with me on the reboot process. Together we've worked on a flyer 
about the reboot to take to the Libre Graphics Meeting this weekend.
It's here - https://about.flossmanuals.org.uk/post/_fm-flyer-for-lgm/ - 
and I've copied the text below.

The other update is that we have a new URL for the project at 
http://flossmanuals.org.uk - so if you are able to update links to the 
older site that would be great.

As part of that move we have a new address for this mailing list.
http://lists.flossmanuals.org.uk/listinfo.cgi/community-flossmanuals.org.uk

You can go here to manage your subscription or unsubscribe. As part of 
this move I also updated the name of the list from discuss to community 
to reflect that this email list is not used for active discussion.
And I've added this information to our get involved page here - 
https://about.flossmanuals.org.uk/page/get-involved/


    FM issue tracker

To reduce the amount of mail in our email inboxes the best way to report 
an issue with FM or to suggest a new manual, or let us know you want to 
adopt one is to use our issue tracker here.

https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/-/work_items 
<https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/-/work_items>

One of the main pieces of work for the reboot is to remove broken links 
where they are found and to signpost to more up to date versions of 
manuals where they exist. That tracker link is the best place to do that.

All the best,
Mick

On 02/12/2025 10:10, mick wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope you are all well. I have had a little more time on my hands 
> recently and have beenreaching out to a few people to helphatch a plan 
> to reboot FLOSS Manuals. So I wanted to share a little here in advance 
> to invite participation.
>
> At this stage I just want to keep it really short but I'll try to 
> write some more expansive blog posts later. So here's a really quick 
> to do list.
>
> 1) Audit existing online FM content, and make theirstatus clear, 
> archive, current,updates needed.
>
> 2) Create a minimal network structure and set of protocols to invite 
> participation. Draft of protocols here (please do comment or add 
> elements)- https://pad.riseup.net/p/floss_manuals_protocols-keep
>
> 3) Document a small menu of way of rebooting or creating new FM 
> manuals: e.g. hugo, MKdocs, wordpress. Either hosted by FLOSS Manuals 
> but allowing other groups to adopt
>
> 4) Create a minimal community presence detailing a way to get 
> involved,how to get help,inviting blog posts, and the dates of on-line 
> FLOSS Manuals community calls (every 6 months?).
>
> In terms of a timeline we are looking at a reboot date of 1st of June 
> 2026. That's 20 years since the first archive of flossmanuals.net - 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20060701000000*/flossmanuals.net
>
> I am imagining this process to be quite a minimal one not involving a 
> lot of changes, and therefore time and effort and in particular 
> administration. However if you would like to be involved, especially 
> in the audit of existing manuals, input on network / community 
> protocols or documenting a process of reviving or creating new manuals 
> please do get in touch with me and I'll add you to a FM-reboot working 
> email list.
> Or you can follow our progress here - 
> https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/
>
>
> Many Thanks
> Mick Fuzz
> Caretaker of flossmanuals.net

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