[FM Discuss] Beyond manuals

[adam hyde]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 13:11 -0500, Janet Swisher wrote:

> 
> What do you see as lacking about the OpenOffice documentation? There
> is a very active documentation project for OpenOffice, so I don't see
> duplicating their efforts as a good use of FM resources. Better to
> provide feedback so they can improve what they've got. Or is this a
> licensing issue?
> 

nono, its not a licensing issue. I generally believe that there is no
such thing as too much documentation. A FM OOo manual would be a
different tone to the current OO Authors manual.

The tone interests me a lot actually. Both the circumvention manual and
the command line manual have a very friendly voice, and I'm wondering
how much of that is a product of the type of community writing effort we
are encouraging.

adam

> >
> > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:00 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> >> Adam, I see good points in both your recent emails to this list: 1) we should consolidate what we've just done, 2) we should set the groundwork for the next books, even if we're a bit frazzled over the most recent efforts.
> >>
> >> I think I'll have some time this coming Saturday to fiddle with the order and transitions in the command-line manual. I'm not going to put in such effort on every book, but I feel a responsibility toward this one.
> >>
> >> O'Reilly just announced the release of our Twitter book, and Tim O'Reilly himself worked on it. Other publishers are pushing Twitter hard too. We should let the public know there's a free alternative.
> >>
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