lilypad [she/her, null/void]

Yayyyy another update!

As per ususal, youre doing wonderful work that is incredibly exciting, even if it is nothing “new”, every step fills me with joy ^^ i perused the git log and the progress is exciting! ^{even if i dont understand most of it}

Tysm for the update, but wont be expecting more before RC2 is in hand

Heiiaaa! I havent commented on the last few posts cause of similar mental b time. I swear theres something in the air rn, half the people i know irl are having rough mental health times.

Im sorry youve been dealing with such a stressful and dysphoric time lately i hope some good crys and sunsets have been cathartic/nourishing for you <3

On the sphynx side of things, its good to see more community-ization! RC1 sounds like its working out well, and that is so wonderful to hear!!!

As always its always wonderful to hear these updates from you i cant wait to solder one of these together and go to town, youre really making something wonderful here <3

Heiiaaa! I havent commented on the last few posts cause of similar mental b time. I swear theres something in the air rn, half the people i know irl are having rough mental health times.

Im sorry youve been dealing with such a stressful and dysphoric time lately i hope some good crys and sunsets have been cathartic/nourishing for you <3

On the sphynx side of things, its good to see more community-ization! RC1 sounds like its working out well, and that is so wonderful to hear!!!

As always its always wonderful to hear these updates from you i cant wait to solder one of these together and go to town, youre really making something wonderful here <3

Whooooooo lets gooo! Ive been a bit out of it and havent been following up but you rock and its so great to see this coming along and have board(s) fabricated! No regrowth in test areas is wonderful, congratulations!

Im so happy youre back! And congratulations on getting settled, hopefully the moving/new job stress winds down a bit. As always, youre a wonderful person and im cheering you on from the sidelines!

I think the other direction could work as well if we’re only concerned with having documentation in both print and web formats; a brief search revealed latex2html, which might be better at handling the contents of the manual depending on how “fancy” it is (complicated things like equations and diagrams are converted to images for the html output). Ill take a closer look at it to see how it would do with themeing and maintaining a colour scheme, but I would imagine some css would be all thats needed.

Im not terribly familiar with ReStructuredText, but it seems like a fairly standard markup language? (Im partial to latex myself, but thats probably just because Im used to it).

When it comes to EPUBs, Im not terribly familiar. My recollection is that they modify the structure of a page to fit whatever the device screen size is. This can be quite useful for straight prose, but for a technical manual might have some drawbacks, since theres likely to be diagrams, schematics, etc. Im mostly thinking out loud here, I havent looked at what goes into making an EPUB.

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Its really late for me and its been a very busy day (i finally have housing, in the nick of time, im not gonna be homeless, im so relieved 😭🤗) so i will come back to this tomorrow, but I just want to say that I actually really like that colour palette! I really agree with using the colour scheme to communicate that this is for all skin tones and hair colours.

Ill try to see take a look at sourcehut pages and ways of publishing to both web and print that are (relatively) easy as I have time in the coming days :)

As always, you rock! Im really impressed by how quickly everything has moved for this project; youre incredibly productive!

I haven’t looked into it at all, but I know sourcehut has a pages feature that lets you deploy a website hosted by them. I havent looked into it and it might not be suitable, but since youre already using sourcehut to host the repos it might be worth checking out.

I must admit Im a sucker for basic PDFs for A4 paper when it comes to assembly guides and manuals. I love having something printed that I can bind and leaf through. Perhaps considering a documentation format that can be published to multiple formats would be nice? I have used org mode to publish to both web and pdf (via latex) before, and the syntax tends to be unobtrusive enough that people who arent familiar with it can understand it with relative ease, but theres certainly other formats that would work (maybe texi? Though ive mostly used that for generating info manuals, i know theres texi to pdf and texi to html processors, though i dont know how featurful they are)

As always, youre doing amazing work and its super exciting to see this all coming together!

Im so glad this is coming along so well! And im so happy you liked the sphynx name!

Ive been checking out each of these posts and love seeing them, i just havent been commenting cause lifes been busy (week from homelessness and kinda sorta seeing someone new who ive fallen head over heels for), but ill just say it again: this is seriously game changing!

Ill ask some of my design friends if theyre interested in making a logo, and maybe someone will make something for the project!

And as always, you fucking rock! I dont have much to contribute right now, so im just cheering you on from the sidelines! Youre amazing and wonderful and making my dreams of being hair-free come within reach!

Would you mind adding me to the ping list?

First and foremost, you are now my favorite human ever. I was just looking at electro costs today for the first time and crying cause Im unemployed and dont think ill ever be able to afford it. This would be such a game changer, it would literally change my life and access to care. You are a beautiful person for doing this

Ok gushing out of the way, I would love to contribute and help make this a reality, but dont really know how. I can write code (most relevant to this project, ive done a toy OS and bootloader in C), and am familiar with a handful of licenses. Ive also done basic home electronics (winding my own pickups, building and programming a mechanical keyboard, rewiring guitars, etc). Im also pretty ok at writing documentation and could do some latex magic to produce nice looking user and service manuals, as well as build instructions. But for the time being, I want to cheer you on!!! This project has made my day so much better just from the prospect of it existing, thank you

As far as the name goes, im unsure. But the mascot should be a hairless creature, like the sphynx cat or naked mole rat.

Thank you so much for beginning this project, it has serious impact and just reading this made my day far better and less distressing. You are a wonderful person!

Editing to add that perhaps you could consider something like sourcehut as a forge provider instead of github? With sourcehut anyone with an email address could contribute, and you could always mirror to github for visibility if you wanted.