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Hosting the file on Archive.org is a good idea. They'll convert it into many different formats and give us a reader that we can embed on a Farm Hack wiki page. I've actually been building things with their API and communicating directly with one of their developers lately so building some kind of Farm Hack / Archive.org integration is in the cards. I'll keep thinking about it. I'm also thinking about ways we might be able to automate a conversion of this book into Markdown format. In Markdown format we could host in on GitHub and/or the Farm Hack wiki pages. For an example of markdown being used on GitHub, check out [this README.md](https://github.com/rjsteinert/archive-org-to-couchdb/blob/master/README.md) file. Because I gave the extension .md, GitHub converts the Markdown formatted text into HTML. You can click on [Raw](https://raw.github.com/rjsteinert/archive-org-to-couchdb/master/README.md) to see the Markdown source of the HTML. Let's definitely get that document on A.o for starters. Then, if I can't figure out how to convert one of the formats that A.o converts to, I'll figure out an efficient manual workflow that we can then divvy up to some volunteers.
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Thanks Jeff, that's quite a wealth of information! If you want to follow my work at OLE you can follow my development blog at http://bell-dev.blogspot.com/ and OLE news at http://www.ole.org/news.
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Melissa Mastrianni brought up Keyhole Gardens and the following video from Send A Cow. For our deployment in Ghana we'll need to find a good Creative Commons licensed instructional video (maybe that one) and some written documentation. This could make a good Farm Hack Tool!
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You can read more about Open Learning Exchange's program in Ghana here -> http://www.ole.org/content/ole-ghana-receives-usaid-%E2%80%9Call-children-reading%E2%80%9D-grant-award