I just got this reply from someone on the Manchester Linux user group and I thought I would share my response. <br>Mind you I just found this which is pretty useful too. <a href="http://learn.wordpress.com">http://learn.wordpress.com</a> I wonder if that is GPL?<br>
<br><br>> Hi Mick,<br>> <br>> I'm interested in helping out with this - one question though - why not<br>> just use the excellent codex on <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a>? <br>> I'm not sure how it’s licensed, but it has lots of great material.<br>
> <br>> Regards,<br>> Rob<br><br>Hi there, <br><br>Thanks for replying. <br><br>The license for the Codex is great (GPL) -that's what we use too (phew) - but it's not quite the same as what we are tring to achieve. <br>
<br>As a summary, we are looking for <br><br>- a good intro for beginners<br>- to make it concise<br>- and to make it available easily in different formats<br>printed book, epub, open office document, html to embed in other websites<br>
- specialised docs towards new users, changing the look, creating a community<br><br>Our guide is partly aimed at beginner users who are using <a href="http://wordpress.com">wordpress.com</a> as well. <br>The reason I'm working on it is that I expanded on an existing manual to make hand outs for my students when I was working doing a lot of training at a community media centre. <br>
<br>I tried to find something similar on <a href="http://wordpress.org">wordpress.org</a> in the codex but this is all I could find - <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started">http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started</a> <br>
which i guess you would agree is not a great place to get started really. <br><br>I think that it's much better for developers who I think are the real audience for the codex. I think it would be a good idea to use some of the stuff on the codex for the more advanced stuff like creating a network. <br>
<br>I'll try to make it along tonight to the meeting tonight anyway!<br><br>nice one<br>Mick <br><br>