Regarding to the discussion about bringing some breath of fresh air into this 
project we should also think about of how to reduce the threshold of 
participating.
Beside the ideas already mentioned by some on this list (an explicit call for 
help/contributions and providing a guide about how to contribute) I want to 
propose a slightly more drastically step: Stop using latex and switch to a more 
intuitive and human readably language, making contributions as easy as editing 
a wiki page. But we have not to stop using latex completely nor abandon the PDF 
as the final product. It’s just necessary to rethink the build chain. Using 
markdown as the language to write the document (or maybe just as an option for 
contributions) and a converter like pandoc would allow to easily contribute but 
also using latex for advanced formatting and get a PDF as the final product.

I saw there was already a thread about conversion to markdown/RST a year ago 
(march 2016). But the discussion ended without any final conclusions.

Just my two cents,
Johannes (a silent listener on this list, so I’m sorry for using the “we” 
phrasing)
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