This seems to be sprawling into a bigger project than it had started. Which is great. Here are my three cents:<br><br>1) We should have a suggested style-guide page on flossmanuals. This project would be a good opportunity for us to start adding to that. The rule of copyediting isn't "correctness" but "consistency." I'd be happy to help in style guide development as I have experience in doing this. <br>
<br>2) I would suggest we have a project lead/Editor that helps to determine if we've met the necessary goals we want to reach in a timely manner. Not a dicator, but someone who can help steer help toward things that are most in need of being finished. Specifically, it would be good if we could mark pages/sections as "needs rewriting," "needs copy-editing," "needs graphic," etc. A good way to annotate/bug-track. <br>
<br>3) It would be good to have the option of going to print. To do that, there are a number of print-quality requirements, such as picture DPI and other things. We should have a list of technical requirements needed to allow for that option in the future. <br>
<br>-Josh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Brian Jordan <<a href="mailto:brian@laptop.org">brian@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Christoph Derndorfer<br>
<<a href="mailto:e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at">e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br>
> Greg Dekoenigsberg schrieb:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I can participate if it is in the second-half of August... I have lots<br>
>>> more material from when I made the "getting started" guide sitting on<br>
>>> the "cutting room floor".<br>
>><br>
>> I think it's worth considering making this and pitching it to O'Reilly. In<br>
>> the same format as Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software" and other<br>
>> works: available for sale, but freely licensed.<br>
>><br>
>> The creation of a physical artifact that can be purchased in stores is "a<br>
>> big deal" and would go a long way towards establishing credibility and<br>
>> permanence. "Holy crap, Sugar must be for real -- they're selling the book<br>
>> in Barnes and Noble! With a Live CD!"<br>
><br>
> That's an excellent idea and I think it would be great to make a Live-CD and<br>
> Sugar documentation available to the masses! :-)<br>
<br>
</div>This is a fantastic idea. A publication with step by step activity<br>
creation instructions and a liveCD with the barebones activities<br>
(templates?) referenced in the publication would provide a distinct<br>
starting point for developers interested in our project, even those<br>
who don't have an XO yet.<br>
<br>
I'd be more than willing to help with pyGame/OLPCGames<br>
instructions/templates--I've been working through this sort of<br>
activity creation process all summer.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Brian<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
>><br>
>> "Make no small plans." Daniel Burnham. :)<br>
>><br>
>> --g<br>
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