[FM Discuss] final TOC

[Walter Bender]

There are many alternate models of group authorship and of an author
using the community in productive ways other than just contributing
writing. My favorite example is how Marvin Minsky wrote his most
recent book, *The Emotion Machine*. He posted all of his chapter
drafts on his public website and solicited feedback from both experts
and the general public. The result was a much better book, where the
ideas were vetted and a real clarity of expression achieved.

-walter

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:51 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 08:45 -0500, Andy Oram wrote:
>> My impression is that FLOSS manuals uses a fairly conventional
>>  authorship model. Can you fill me in? I see books being written with
>>  one author per chapter, or even in larger chunks. Of course, people
>>  can edit and make changes, but there is a sense of one person being in
>>  charge of each chunk.
>
> It differs from manual to manual. Some are very unconventionally
> authored - these are generally the products of the book sprints, where
> sometimes a chapter has one small paragraph written by someone, another
> adds a few more bits, someone else re-writes it, some edits, more is
> added
>
> sometimes entire manuals are the result of one author
>
>
> adam
>
>
>>
>> O'Reilly, and several other publishers, are trying to figure out whether we can do print-on-demand and slip changes into each copy of a book we print. There are several difficulties with that. For instance, don't people who buy a print copy deserve updates? If so, how does the publisher deliver them?
>>
>> The book about the concurrent language must have been Haskell. It's a mammoth book.
>>
>> Andy
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