[FM Discuss] [IAEP] Sugar users manual

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Greg Dekoenigsberg schrieb:
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> I can participate if it is in the second-half of August... I have lots
>> more material from when I made the "getting started" guide sitting on
>> the "cutting room floor".
>
> I think it's worth considering making this and pitching it to 
> O'Reilly. In the same format as Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source 
> Software" and other works: available for sale, but freely licensed.
>
> The creation of a physical artifact that can be purchased in stores is 
> "a big deal" and would go a long way towards establishing credibility 
> and permanence.  "Holy crap, Sugar must be for real -- they're selling 
> the book in Barnes and Noble!  With a Live CD!"
That's an excellent idea and I think it would be great to make a Live-CD 
and Sugar documentation available to the masses! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph
>
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