Re: Fwd: FLOSS Manuals Bookstore

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, adam hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will Wikibooks be producing Books of the collection? I thought this
> would make the WMF a publisher and hence liable for any content...a
> position I was sure, having seen Oliver Hugot present at Wikimania, was
> one the foundation wished to avoid?

No, and this is a good distinction to make every now and again:
Wikibooks and the WMF won't be doing any publishing, but individual
Wikibookians (or other well-wishers) may very well publish books from
Wikibooks. In fact, several books from Wikibooks are already published
and available for sale from Amazon (Go to amazon.com and do a search
for "Wikibooks").

I and a small group of other interested Wikibookians could get
together, pick books that are in particularly good condition, and see
to it that they were passed on to a willing publisher. Or, another
group with similar aims is welcome to take content from Wikibooks
(following all licensing guidelines) and publish them without our
input. In fact, if any groups wanted to do this, I think it would be
acceptable to post limited advertisements for the books on Wikibooks,
assuming our community agreed with it.

> (also, while i remember. i wrote to oliver and he has agreed to do a
> presentation to the Wikibooks community as we discussed some time ago
> ie. a pre-recorded presentation and irc/skype session to ask questions
> after the presentation has been online for a while...his presentation
> will be on the topic of legal definition of 'publisher' and what this
> means to the WMF and others...its also very interesting to FLOSS
> Manuals, so I will draw in some from the FM community to participate)

Yes, I remember this, but I don't seem to have any of the details
anymore. When would such a meeting be held? What organizational help
do you need?

--Andrew Whitworth