Ian Laurenson wrote:
My concern was about the process and the long term effect on the community. If I had known that a member of the community that has acted in a leading role was to act in such a unilateral fashion I would not have joined the group and contributed the material that I had written.
It wasn't unilateral.
While I personally would have objected to a proposal to enact what you have done, if the majority of the community thought the proposal a good idea I would have accepted the community view.
My view is that providing printed books is a service to the community. Many people prefer a printed book, and even with a profit margin built in, buying one of the printed books is generally cheaper than printing it oneself from the PDF, except for someone who isn't paying for the paper and ink. I hope others will comment at this point and say whether they support the provision of printed copies.
I suggest that a discussion about printing and proceeds from selling printed copies could be useful.
Of course. I stated in the announcement that the OOoAuthors community will decide how to spend any profits. Of course, one choice is to sell the printed copies at cost, and thus have no profit to quibble about.
My personal view is that now that there is an official OOo wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page OOoAuthors should move to this wiki and OOoAuthors be reunited with the documentation team.
What is "reunited"? We've been working closely with Docs, and sending them all the stuff we produce, for over a year now. The OOoAuthors website is easier to use than the Issue Tracker system for collaborative writing, so we use it. I confess I wasn't aware of the wiki you mention, and wikis are often difficult for me to use when I'm travelling because I cannot be online very much of the time, so my preference is for other methods. When I get a chance, I'll check it out. Jean
