Floss Manuals

For the puredata community Pure data Floss Manuals was a wiki created in 2008 to serve as a manual and tutorials for the old Pd-Extended. The English version is considered outdated, but there is also a  French version that is being updated to this day.

For the original announcement on the pd-list, see this e-mail: [PD [PD-announce] Proof Me! PD FLOSS Manual ]

By quoting Derek Holzer in that e-mail,


 * The Pure Data FLOSS Manual is conceived as a beginner's approach to Pure Data which, unlike most of the existing documentation, doesn't assume that the user has a degree in mathematics or computer science before they get started! Currently, information on installing and configuring PD, the interface, dataflow tutorials and audio tutorials are included. The FLOSS Manuals philosophy is that chapters from the different available FLOSS Manuals can be "remixed" to create new manuals (for course readers & curriculums, classroom manuals, etc etc). Everything is published under the GNU General Public License.

The workflow to contribute to floss manuals as said in the wikipedia page is as follows:


 * Anyone can contribute to the material at FLOSS Manuals. Each manual has a maintainer – very much like the Debian maintainer system. The maintainer keeps an overview of the manual and discusses with those interested the structure, etc. The maintainer is also responsible for gathering new contributors together. Not all edits are 'live' – the edits are published to the manual when ready. This is to ensure the quality of the manuals is as high and as reliable as possible and that no new user encounters 'half finished' content.

English Floss Manuals
The English Floss Manuals for puredata is nowadays considered outdated, (the relevant discussion can be found on these e-mails on the pd-list: [PD mickfuzz's Pure Data FLOSS Manual, a message on behalf of Pd's community ]) but they can still be accessed in two places:


 * 1) An archived version:
 * 2) * https://archive.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/
 * 3) and a newer one, that can still receive contributions, but was renamed to Pure Data (Pd) Extended, by Alexandre Torres Porres:
 * 4) * https://en.flossmanuals.net/pd-extended/_info/

Many people contributed to the English Floss Manuals, you can find them in the credits section of the manual.

French Floss Manuals
(this needs to be updated with more info)

There is also a French version, that received many contributions later and evolved to a different manual than the english one, and can be accessed here:
 * https://fr.flossmanuals.net/puredata/introduction/