Workshop: Creating and Theming a Booktype Community

"Booktype is a collaborative writing platform that can form the base for many different kinds of documentation and writing projects. It has a excellent ability to output to many different formats including print ready pdf, epub, odt files and html.

We'll look at how Booktype can be themed to suit the needs of the group working on it. Our aim is to draw on the design and coding knowledge in the room to create a demo Booktype website. The proposed example to work with in this Hackathon is to theme a FLOSS Manuals Castellano installation of Booktype.

The primary aims of the workshop / hackathon are as follows:

- increase working knowledge of how Booktype can be themed

- theme a working installation of Booktype for FLOSS Manuals Castellano

- gather suggested improvements for Booktype We will customise the default Booktype css and design community pages to encourage participation in this writing community.

We will also design a front page and about pages to showcase existing work and activities. This hackathon should result in to make a list of suggested improvements to the developers of Booktype based on our adventures in design."