Re: you know...
- From: Liam R E Quin <liam w3 org>
- To: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
- Cc: Engagement list <engagement-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: you know...
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:46:51 -0500
On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:49:11 -0800 Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
<kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
It would be great, but writing a good book takes a lot of time and
effort
The right answer here is a collaborative book with many examples.
It could start as a wiki, unless someone wants to write a git-based back end to open office, abiword or even
gedit to let people review changes and work together.
Indeed. Also, it will be out of date a year after publishing given
how fast we are developing new things.
Again the authoritative source would need to be online. But if the GNOME infrastructure is so unstable that a
printed book becomes useless in six months to a year, what good is it? That would seem a much more pressing
problem to me.
Another approach would be to organise something along the lines of a
book sprint.
Yes, I've heard Adam Hyde speaking about these events.
The only problem doing it from
a 'community' perspective is that we won't be able to write things in
a single 'voice'. Or rather, we will need a good editor that can warp
it into a single voice. It is a little off putting when one chapter
is using a different set of word choices than another [...]
Yes, editing is an important part of publishing, as is assessing the market -- that is, who will benefit most
from the work and what do they need.
--
Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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