Re: books and things

Hey ,

good to hear from you about this :)

I was thinking about a structured event...online or offline...to pick
some topics and invite people to speak and follow it with discussion
(also, I should point out i am not strictly speaking a wikimedian, i am
part of floss manuals which is a wiki dedicated to making free manuals
on free software). 

there are several topics in this area that might not quite coincide with
other wikimedia foundation projects but are more book-specific which
would be interesting to discuss such as :
* collaborative authoring and the place of the author
* remixing books
* current technologies
* structuring book content within a wiki
* output formats
* print on demand technologies and models
* wikis and publishing
* legal issues (when does a wiki become a publisher etc)
* invariant sections vs derivative works
* what is the ideal book license?


etc etc etc

i should have proposed this for wikimania in alex or tried to get it
together there on the spot but it was a bit hectic. but perhaps a series
of discussions that culminates with a irl meet for those that attend wm
09?

adam








On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:51 -0300, mike.lifeguard wrote:
> I'd love to get some Wikibookians together and just chat! I (can be) on
> Skype if you're interested in that - I had some very good conversations a
> few weeks back with some Wikipedians & if we get a few Wikibookians
> together, I imagine it'd be a good time.
> 
> But we always have #wikibooks on irc.freenode.net for exactly this sort of
> thing. It's an open channel; you're welcome to /join :D
> 
> As for meeting IRL - we are very spread out, and I don't know whether any of
> us go to Wikimedia meetups (would be interested to know). Except folks in
> Pennsylvania, who I think see each other IRL reasonably often, as there are
> 3 (maybe) of them fairly close.
> 
> -Mike.lifeguard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: textbook-l-bounces-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org
> [mailto:textbook-l-bounces-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of adam hyde
> Sent: July 30, 2008 5:53 AM
> To: Wikimedia textbook discussion
> Subject: [Textbook-l] books and things
> 
> hi,
> 
> I was wondering if it might be interesting to have an informal gathering
> about wikis and books...I'd love to talk to more wikibooks ppl (and
> others) about general and specific issues surrounding licenses, tech,
> process etc
> 
> either a realspace meeting or a organised series of discussions via VOIP
> or similar...
> 
> anyone keen for something like this?
> 
> adam
> 
> 
-- 
Adam Hyde
FLOSS Manuals

http://www.flossmanuals.net
+ 31 6 2808 7108

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