I was sitting next to a guy at the SocialMediaRT who was doing a collaborative book authoring product. If anyone can remember his name/company/site maybe that might also be good glue? I don't know if it worked better for fiction or would work in this context. d?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Elias Bizannes <elias.bizan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Ross Hill was teasing me that I haven't done anything on the website. > One day. > > But in that conversation, an idea sprouted based on all the knowledge > this mailing list generates and the intelligent people we have > contributing. > > How about we write a book? > > We use the start-up camp concept - but we write words, not (just) > code. Based on the community at wide, we work out what knowledge > people would appreciate - and the editorial decision gets made and > evolved over the course of the weekend. The end product gets > published, with proceeds to help related causes (perhaps funding a > barcamp or something). > > Imagine getting experienced entrepreneurs, professionals, and the rest > to argue over their views and synthesise them into crisp English. > Remote contributors will be accepted via a wiki. Anyone that speaks > the English language can have a role from copy-editing, graphic > design, or a cool little dynamic table of contents that uses something > bling bling for the online version of the book. > > Thoughts? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
