[FM Discuss] Anyone discuss partnership with Linux Foundation?

[David Farning]

This is a outstanding example of a market for FM to earn its chops.
Much of the information that the Linux Foundation would like organized
has too small of an audience to warrant the attention of the bigger
publishers.

One the other hand, the Linux Foundation, would be willing to kick in
the funding to help incubate these information ecosystems.  They also
have the credibility to attract the key people necessary to ensure an
up to date and accurate product.

david

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:
> I know FLOSS Manuals concentrates on books for large audiences, mostly non-programmer, but working with Linux Foundation may be worthwhile.
>
> I've talked to their staff many times over the years and know they are anxious to get well-written and well-structured documentation out to their audience, which consists of kernel and application developers.
>
> This is an example of an audience I mentioned in mail a couple weeks ago: small but strategically important. These may be where the next versions of Linux and the next wave of free software applications come from.
>
> I actually can't find the documentation on the Linux Foundation site, or even a link called "documentation." But they tell me there's a huge range of forums and contributions. I bet it could benefit from a conscious look and a community effort.
>
> Also (important to mention this) the Linux Foundation has funding for such things.
>
> Andy
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