[FM Discuss] updated IBD

[Micz Flor]

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"


> 
> just to follow up on this with a couple of stories. They don't really
> require a response but thoughts or similar situations would of interest
> tome.
> 
> I was involved in open web book and Adam wrote some really meaningful
> credit in about this book chapter.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/an-open-web/about-this-book/
> That's really detailed and one end of the spectrum. Thanks Adam.
> 
> Another perspective is the Basic Internet Security which I've been
> resusing the Thunderbird and Enigmail chapters but I'm not really sure
> who to credit, who to thank or who to get Mozilla to sent a Thunderbird
> T-shirt too. I found this page, but individual chapters are not
> credited. I want to share the attribution a bit more specifically rather
> than just pointing to this chapter which lists the participants.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/index/
> 
> Now I know that Sacha is on this list, so I can ask him and Adam if they
> remember - "Hey who wrote that bit, I want to give them credit and get
> them a T-shirt." But someone outside of this social loop wouldn't be
> able to do that.
> 
> nice one
> Mick
> 
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