[FM Discuss] Need help with OSBR article

[Janet Swisher]

Gah. Sorry about the reply-all. Meant to send that just to Ed.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Janet Swisher <jmswisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>