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[mickfuzz]

> On 27.06.2012, at 15:46, Mick Fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org> wrote:
> 
>>> 5. Meaningful credit for all contributors
> 
> I will follow your lead and add that meaningful credit only makes sense when you see a book as an entitiy which is finished at some point. Or in other words: listing all contributors is impossible if the book is open and continued forever. In which case meaningful credit would be "thanks to all contributors"

On reflection, you are right - Meaningful credit in this context is
meaningless at the moment.

I guess what I meant was descriptive attribution rather than mechanical
/ automated attribution. And also confusing it with a 'meaningful'
relationship :)  -
definition - a romantic relationship based upon mutual respect and
supportiveness and marked by a sense of commitment and fulfillment.

There are I guess advantages and disadvantages to all forms of
attribution that we have discussed. For some reason I feel compelled to
write some kind of summary of what we've been discussing.

Group Attribution / No attribution - low overhead but potentially low
incentive (and I still don't know where to send that T-shirt)

Descriptive Attribution - as in the 'About the book' chapter. This  But
this gives the impression that the work is finished and could discourage
new edits and reuse.

Automated / Mechanical Attribution - can track the writers and editors
in a more complete way, but this can be hard to maintain (especially if
printed) and hard to get a sense of the main contributors at a glance.
This kind of completeness seems like it is only possible as a webpage of
edits.

Try working out who wrote what from looking at a Wikipedia History page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attribution_%28copyright%29&action=history

Currently for Book Sprints, I get the impression that because of the
complexity of this situation the main credit and publicity often seems
to go to the convening organisation, event or the sprint facilitator.

I think that this is working pretty well with FLOSS Manuals, but does
this lack of 'meaningful' attribution leave us with a kind of tribal
book collaboration.

nice one
Mick