Great! Thank you for the clarity. --sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III phone On Aug 24, 2013 8:01 PM, "Thomas Corwin" <dog1...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Thomas, thanks for the email and for checking out the minutes from > today's meeting. > > I was planning on attending, but I had a surprise visit from some family, > and was unable to attend. > > The confusion may have occurred on both sides of your communication. My > understanding from your email to me was that you wanted me "to take over > the section where you had your name". Upon receipt of this request, I > removed your name from the list and put my name in. I inferred from your > request that you wouldn't be able to help out in authoring, and therefore, > I communicated with the leads (as well as in the meeting today) about your > "departure". If this was an incorrect inference on my part, I profusely > apologize and wish to remedy the misunderstanding as soon as possible. > > I should've been more specific with the request I made. There is no reason > to apologize. I would like to keep the Wine section, but I am unable to > complete the work I have originally signed up for, and I am very sorry for > that. > > I so much appreciate your passion and desire to publish information about > Wine--IMO, being able to run certain Windows applications on Linux is a > critical barrier to many making the transition to Linux generally, and > Ubuntu specfically. > > That is the main reason I requested the addition of Wine in the manual > during the 13.04 release. I figured it would be good to know that there are > "workarounds" to transition from the ever popular Windows OS, to Linux. > > However, I'm not sure how an intense focus on Wine fits within the > confines of a manual with an audience of new users--or if it even WAS your > intention to supersize the Wine section within the manual? > > I did at one point in time wish to "supersize" the Wine section of the > manual, but I then thought about all of the information that I could put > into it. I later decided that the little section on Wine would suffice in a > manual specifically to new users of Ubuntu. > > Was it your desire to publish a completely separate "manual" specific to > Wine? Or did you want to expand the small Wine section in the current > manual? > > After some debate on extending the Wine section, I decided to create a > whole new project named Wine on Ubuntu. This will be a manual specifically > aimed on Wine usage using the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The little section > on Wine will stay the little section in the UM. > > And how can the UMP team help you accomplish this goal? > > > Anyone is welcome to help in any way. Authors, Editors, Designers, > Testers. That's basically all that is needed for the time being, not > counting setting up the TeX files and such for the manual (which I asked > Kevin to help with once this version of the UM is released) > > If you can provide us some clarity, that would be helpful. You are, of > course, always welcome to author, or to step away for a time, or focus on > LTS releases only...whatever fits your schedule, we can always use the help! > > I will still work with the manual for every release, however, I will only > be doing the Wine section of the Advanced Topics chapter. Having said that, > I will have my name as an author for that chapter, but that chapter will > still need a main author: one who will work on the rest of the section. > > If you, or anyone else for that matter, have any questions, comments, or > are willing to help, please email the list. I hope that was enough clarity > Jim! :) > > Thanks, > Thomas Corwin > > On Aug 24, 2013, at 9:29 PM, "Jim Connett" <jimandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks! > --Jim > Hello! > > Schlopo (I'm not sure who that is...) is supposed to confirm the contents > of the Wine section with my *departure.* > * > * > I'm not sure why I'm "departing"? Haha. Probably a misunderstanding on my > part. Could someone help me understand? :) > > Thanks, > Thomas Corwin > > On Aug 24, 2013, at 5:17 PM, "Jim Connett" <jimandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, everyone. > > Please visit > http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Meetings<http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-manual/2013/ubuntu-manual.2013-08-24-19.07.moin.txt> > to > access the transcript and summary information from today's Author's meeting. > > Thanks. > -Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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