[FM Discuss] Need help with OSBR article

[Janet Swisher]

Hi Ed,

Sorry for the long delay in responding. My computer died over
Thankgiving weekend, and things have been very busy at work. The good
news is that I am now running Ubuntu on my new laptop.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would they be interested in the documentation/textbooks/other learning
> materials needed for using Open Source in education, specifically
> integrating Open Source into the curriculum?

OSBR is fairly tightly focussed on the business of open source, so I'm
not sure that they would be. However, I see from the archives
(http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/archive) that they did do
an issue on education in August 2008. You could contact the editor,
Dru Lavigne (dru at osbr.ca) and see if she's interested.

Cheers,
Janet

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:45, Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been invited to submit an article to Open Source Business
>> Resource online magazine (http://osbr.ca) on the importance of
>> documentation to the success of open source projects. I plan to
>> emphasize the importance of *open-licensed* documentation in
>> particular, with examples from FM and elsewhere.
>>
>> Firstly, two projects that seem to fit well (for different reasons)
>> with the points I plan to make are Inkscape and CiviCRM. If you are
>> involved in the FM manuals for those projects and you're interested in
>> being interviewed for this article, please contact me off-list.
>> Secondly, if you're more involved with a different FM manual that you
>> think is a good case study, please let me know. Thirdly, if you know
>> of examples of FLOSS projects (not necessarily on FM) whose success
>> seems to be due in good part to good documentation, please point them
>> out to me (PHP and mySQL are two I've seen mentioned in this regard).
>>
>> It seems like there's been a spate of article recently about open
>> source and documentation. It's great that the topic is finally getting
>> some attention. My challenge is to find something more to add to the
>> conversation. I appreciate any assistance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Janet