[FM Discuss] credits (was: and the year begins)

[Julian Oliver]

buenos,

..on or around Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:57PM +0100, adam hyde said:
> hey Luka :)
> > 
> > while on one hand i feel like i wouldn't really care who contributed
> > how much, as long as we are all mentioned there, to me it seems the
> > most elegant solution to create categories for each project separately.
> > or maybe there can be some generalization:
> > 
> > manual written by
> > Joe Doe and Lisa Smith
> > 
> > with contributions from
> > Adam
> > Luka
> > Derek
> > 
> > proof reading /  minor corrections
> > ...
> 
> I put up a second PDF, have a look at that and see what you think of the
> credits inside the cover:
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/publish/PDF/Blender_draft1_2_gs.pdf
> 
> How does that look to you?

looks good to me! font rendering looks smooth and beautiful BTW, at least here 
with XPDF on Linux.

> 
> 
> > i guess there's not more then four categories. it's possible that they
> > are different from project to project. can this be abstracted into
> > preferences/properties of each manual in the backend interface?
> > 
> 
> yeah, i was also thinking we don't have to have a template for all
> manuals. at the same time, it would be handy to find some kind of
> general rule for these things.
> 
> 

i'm sure a general rule will arise soon enough. nonetheless, there'll
always be the need for some flexibility.  

in the traditional publishing world it seems that accreditation rules
are frequently broken, even by the same editorial, to accommodate
special cases. 

one case that comes to mind is an FM manual authored, edited and proofed
by a heap of people, completely internally, under the single name of an
organisation (like a UNI or community centre for instance). the manual
could be so well refined that it goes to print without any public edits.

worth mentioning perhaps that in the traditional publishing world the
credit page seems to be considered partly the realm of the authors
themselves: they sometimes host a "thanks to", other little notes, lists
of consecutive editions/versions and their authors/editors..

cheers,

julian oliver
Madrid

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