[FM Discuss] FM, books and you

[Mel Chua]

I'd actually suggest that the revenue generated go towards giving signed (by
Adam + some lead developers of whatever is documented - collectors' items!)
paper copies of the manual as awards (the FLOSSmanual awards - best
graphics, best technical chapter, best translation, etc) instead of cash.

-Mel

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> we've already discussed this quite a bit in private chats, but just wanted
> to publicly chime in and say I'm all for the markup move. Personally, I see
> a good place for any revenue generated as going towards "chapter bounties",
> i.e. a bounty paid to any volunteer(s) willing to complete a decent,
> self-standing chapter of quality material that meets a certain set of
> standards set by the maintainer (in the case of the Pd Manual, me). Curious
> what others might think of this idea...
>
> best from Berlin!
> D.
>
> adam hyde wrote:
>
>  I have no problem with maintainers using the $ to pay people. eg
>> themselves. However the manuals are a community effort in many cases and
>> the distribution of the income has to keep this in mind. We will have to
>> discuss at some point how this is managed. For now it is not an issue,
>> we can go as we are for a little while.
>>
>
> --
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