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FYI
I mentioned this back in August, and folks expressed their opinions pretty clearly. But I wanted to forward this along, just to let you know. I don't expect anyone's opinion has changed.
- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Apache Documentation available in ThoutReader format Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:10:26 -0800 From: Mark D. Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: OSoft.com To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rich,
Sorry for the second message. The first one bounced back to me as undeliverable. Original message follows:
My partner Gary Varnell and I met you at the OS convention in Portland, OR this past July. We are the guys who developed the program called the ThoutReader?, the open source documentation platform that allows developers to browse ? search ? bookmark ? and append all of their OS documentation and favorite reference books in one common format. [The ThoutReader? is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2, June 1991.
I am writing because we need your assistance. Yesterday we posted to our website www.osoft.com the Apache 2.0 documentation in the ThoutReader? format and the response has been overwhelming. We now have documentation for Apache, PHP, MySQL, BSD, Perl, and some Linux. In December, MySQL adopted the ThoutReader? as an approved format for their documentation and now offer it from their website. We would like to accomplish the same thing with Apache as an option to your current documentation format. You do not have to be online to read documentation with the ThoutReader?. We developed an XSLT to convert Docbook to the ThoutReader? format and we would be happy to give this to Apache.org for future use.
You and Ken Coar are the only two guys I have met on the Apache Documentation Project and I am not sure how to proceed. I believe there is a documentation committee and I would ask that you take a moment to download the Apache Documentation in the ThoutReader? format and try it out. We would like to partner with you on the documentation project and believe the ThoutReader? has a lot to offer the open source community. We are particularly interested in any other content you might like to publish in the ThoutReader? format that could benefit the Apache community.
Rich, you also indicated some interest in publishing a book electronically. The ThoutReader? would be a great choice for you. We are in the process of converting ALL of the Manning titles into the ThoutReader? format.
I look forward to hearing back from you. Thanks,
Mark
Mark D. Carey President OSoft, Inc. 253-284-0475 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2511 South Hood Street Tacoma, WA 98402
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