[FM Discuss] Does FLOSS Manuals hurt other doc efforts?

[adam]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 18:20 -0500, Scott Nesbitt wrote:
> Some interesting thoughts. Yes, there is a bit or territorial feeling
> even in the FLOSS world. Being from the technical writer from the
> corporate world, I see that all the time and think it's a very bad
> move to ignore other sources of information and other points of view.
> 
> 
> That said, this sort of thing won't disappear overnight. A couple of
> people on this thread talked about including a section in a FLOSS
> Manual that points to other sources of documentation and information.
> We tried to do that in the Thunderbird book and I think we kind of
> succeeded.
> 
> 
> Maybe the head honcho can mandate that such a section be part of FMs
> from now on. Doing something like that is simply an attempt at holding
> out an olive branch. It exposes readers of FLOSS Manuals to the wider
> ecosphere of documentation.


i cant think that fm can work with mandates. i think the best we can do
is to encourage people creating manuals in fm to do this with 'the right
attitude' (ie. generosity towards all other doc projects) and to keep
sight of the fact that we are here to help free software not to build an
empire

adam

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