[mv] Fwd: [LUG] Open-content discussion

["Birgitt Funk" <birgitt@my-deja.com>]

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I thought this might be interesting with regards to what Mike Heins announced a while ago on this list, the technical manual he is 
launching this spring.

Birgitt Funk

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DATE: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:40:13
From: Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle@dalheimer.hh.uunet.de>
To: Linux User Group Stormarn <lug-stormarn@lhsystemsas.de>

Hallo,

das kvnnte f|r den einen oder anderen von Euch interessant sein. Open
Content Licenses sind ein Versuch, die Ideen Freier Software auf B|cher
zu |bertragen. Mein Verlag, O'Reilly, hat dies mit einem Buch (Using
Samba) gemacht, andere Verlage sind ebenfalls mit im Boot.

Gr|_e aus Schweden,

Kalle

(this is my translation of above message:)

Hi, this might be interesting for some of you. Open Content Licenses are a trial, to transfer ideas of "free software" to books. My publisher, O'Reilly, has done this with one book (Using Samba) and other publishers are in the same boat with this.

Greetings from Sweden.

Kalle

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O'Reilly & Associates is
just starting an open, online discussion on open documents.  My "seed"
posting below lays out the parameters.  Interested people can go to:

        http://forums.oreilly.com/~publishing

and just start clicking; the procedure should be pretty easy to figure
out. I am truly in an exploratory stage and am looking for a vigorous
discussion of the problems and possible solutions.

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  The groundswell of Open Source, or free software, technologies has
  created a sea change in commercial book publishing. Several
  publishers, including O'Reilly & Associates, have started offering
  books under various open-content licenses so that they can be freely
  displayed on Internet sites, distributed with software on CD-ROMs,
  taken apart to be used for course handouts, and in some cases
  printed by other people besides the original publisher. As
  revolutionary for the publishing industry as this distribution
  mechanism is, some projects go even further to work directly with
  the developers of Open Source projects. We are likely to see the
  integration of professionally edited and produced documentation into
  the model of Open Source development over the next few years.

  Having recently finished one project myself under an open-content
  license -- Using Samba -- and having started work on several other
  such projects, I'd like to invite all interested persons to a
  discussion on how the Open Source community and professional
  publishers can

  1. Involve developers of open source software more directly in the
     development of high-quality guides and other
     professionally-edited content.

  2. Find the development models for open documents that work well
     with the successful models used for open-source software.

  There are many angles to consider -- quality control, Internet-time
  release schedules, the big-picture thinking required to keep the
  book's balance and structure strong during updates, risks and
  benefits of forking, adequate compensation for writers and
  publishers, dealing with the natural tendency to want to hide work
  in progress with competitive publishers -- so take your pick and
  give us a thoughtful post!
-- 
Kalle Dalheimer     Contract programming for Unix
kalle@dalheimer.de  Technical writing
kalle@kde.org       Technical editing
kalle@oreilly.de    KDE Developer (MFCH)
mdalheimer@acm.org  It's open, it's source, it runs - must be KDE!
	
Lukashenko and the Pope - the last remaining dictators in Europe.
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Birgitt Funk


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