On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0700, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > 2010/8/17 Karsten Wade - kw...@redhat.com: > <snip> > > > > I'll note that the content from the wiki does end up in DocBook XML in > > a git source code repository, and we could switch to that as the > > upstream source (instead of interim format) for the textbook. > > However, my experience and learned evidence is that we would put up a > > really high barrier to entry that would cut our effective contributors > > by 90%. > > > > From monitoring the Linux From Scratch > <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> mailing lists, there seems to > be all sorts of expertise levels involved. Their authoritative > product is DocBook XML in a Subversion (SVN) repository. Because the > "book" published on the web is the probable first contact point for a > new participant (someone who would use the book to build a system), > SVN is not a major hurdle. Most of the discussion occurs on the > mailing lists and a few folks maintain the SVN in sync with the > discussion. > > I hope you see the parallels to the Textbook Project at Teaching Open > Source. The POSSE event participants and teachers in classrooms will > be using the textbook and contributing revisions and additions. They > need to be Subject Matter Experts, not SVN experts.
I think, based on your example, that we are saying roughly the same thing. I see contributions from education for the textbook coming in via email, the wiki or an easier to use editor, and forums in various locations. The forums (and this list?) need to have clear legal language that anything written on the forum can be used under the CC BY SA license so that we can include items directly from there to the textbook. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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