At 3:58 AM -0700 4/24/07, David Southwell wrote: > IMHO some of the best FAQ's are to be found in the Open Source World and many > of the worst come from over highly paid professionals with too much attention > to hype and too little devotion to meeting end user requirements.
Pretty much by definition, FAQs and all things like them come from the community, and they usually tend to be solely supported by the community. As such, it makes sense that the Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) community would be responsible for producing some of the best FAQs around, since they're probably one of the biggest and most active communities around. > The advantage of open source world is that the best contributions are > crafted with care and passion and not with a focus on self interest. Right, but there's a difference between a FAQ and a definitive O'Reilly book. What we've got today is the FAQ. What you're asking for is the O'Reilly book. While there are people in this community who have the technical knowledge that would be required to produce an O'Reilly book, there are few people in the world who make good technical writers, and there are damn few technical writers who are O'Reilly-quality. I know that I'm not O'Reilly quality. When it comes to Mailman, there is no known overlap between the people who have the necessary technical knowledge and the people who have the necessary technical writing talent & skills. If you have information otherwise, please say so. I'm sure that Barry and others will be relieved to know that someone else is taking care of this issue. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp