I haven't read anything on the [documentation-dev] mailing list , so if
there are any negatives to this idea, I'm not aware of them. But the big
positive is what you mentioned: giving more
users a choice about how they access and use the information we are
producing. It almost sounds like a perfect win-win situation, so I'm sure
there are some negatives that have not yet surfaced. Until those (not yet
known) negatives are brought forward and discussed, I say "go for it".
-- John Viestenz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Hollis Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Authors" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [authors] Making OOoAuthors docs available in other forms
Those of you who read the [documentation-dev] mailing list at OOo
will have noticed that I have been asking questions about the
licensing of pages on the OOo wiki.
My suggestion was that the wiki contain a "user documentation"
section that users are encouraged to read, and that is linked to
and from the Documentation Project's first page. In other words,
have some of OOo's user docs available on the wiki itself, for
use by the public.
Everyone who has expressed an opinion on that list has supported this
idea, though there has been some concern about the licensing arrangements.
The licensing issue appears to be getting resolved in a way that would
allow OOoAuthors material to be placed on the wiki under our current
Creative Commons license.
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