Re: Branding checks to upcoming book

I just had a brief IRC interaction with Claudia who pointed me to
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/day-one-of-floss-manuals-book.html
Better understood now. I think that the best thing for me would be to
catch up with you after you've published. I have other commitments
today, and am uncomfortable with giving this less than it deserves.

Carl


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Oh, I'm extremely sorry, the link to the book
>> is http://www.booki.cc/kde/_full/ . The content will be finalized till 6 PM
>> PST tomorrow and will be sent to publishing. We can still make changes but
>> the first edition of the book won't contain the fixes. Would this be enough
>> time for you guys to review our work?
>> Regards
>> Rohan Garg
>
> Please say why your book is being sent to the publisher at 6:00 p.m.
> today (10/20/11). Here's the dilemma I have...
> - http://www.booki.cc/kde/_full/ converts to a 42 page odt. The
> webpage is not editable in any serious fashion. Google Docs is fine
> for some kinds of collaborative editing, but it doesn't work well for
> versioning and involvement of multiple editors.
> - There is a lot of information in the document. And it covers many
> areas of effort within KDE. Accuracy is almost certainly compromised.
> - The intended audience is not clear. The potential development
> categories are listed below. How will this book be distributed? How
> does it get into people's hands? Is it published on paper? A website?
>     * Submitting a bug fix
>     * Writing a new application powered by KDE
>     * Contributing to an existing project
>     * Adding functionality to KDE development libraries
>     * Writing a new application using KDE tools
> - There are ongoing efforts to recruit people to KDE in many types of
> tasks. How does your work complement those efforts?
>
> From somewhere came the idea that this book was needed. From somewhere
> came the idea that it would be published in less than 12 hours from
> now. It seems to me that it would be an important consideration of the
> project to address meta-issues. Even if that means publishing will be
> delayed from what was originally planned.
>
> I would be happy to work on your document if your group will allocate
> enough time and involvement for the job to be done well. Otherwise,
> I'm not willing to do what seems to me to be less than quality work. I
> do not intend to diminish the work of your group on this book nor on
> the GSoC projects that y'all have done.
>
> Please let us know what you decide.
>
> Carl
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi!
>>> > We are writing a book at the GSoC Doc Camp sprint in Mountain View that
>>> > gets
>>> > new developers started in KDE Software Development and we would like you
>>> > guys to review our work in order to ensure that we haven't made
>>> > any unintentional branding mistakes in the book. The book will be
>>> > finalized
>>> > till 6 PM PST, so we need your review ASAP.
>>> > www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> I love your intentionality. However, 1 1/2 hours to review something
>>> is a pretty audacious request. I'm probably the only one available to
>>> do this...most people are in Europe or India. One other minor
>>> problem...I don't see anything at www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg to
>>> review.
>>>
>>> What is the magic of publishing at 6 PM?
>>> Do you prefer now or correct?
>>> What is the document that needs to be reviewed?
>>>
>>> I may have some time to do this in the next short while, but I already
>>> made a commitment to help someone with a Kubuntu upgrade to Oneiric.
>>> They are sitting in a coffee shop with no computer. I'm not gonna
>>> leave them high and dry. And I don't know how long it will take to get
>>> them afloat.
>>>
>>> Please provide more information.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Carl
>>
>>
>

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