Bloom, Jon, KE3Z wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
BJ > Email is just the delivery mechanism. But the conversion to
BJ > a structure of Web documents would provide an opportunity to
BJ > make its collaborative nature more obvious.
I am not so sure I support the idea of abandoning the HOWTO format. Since this
is the accepted document delivery model for Linux, we get a lot of exposure to
non-hams who may become interested in ham radio through Linux. We get free
exposure in all sorts of places with quasi-official status, such as the
hardcopy LDP collections put out by Yggdrasil and Red Hat. And, of course, we
are included with every distribution right out of the box.
Another point in favor of HOWTO format is that there is already a software
infrastructure for automatic conversion of SGML source to HTML and most other
formats considered generally useful. As a result, if the document source is
maintained as SGML source as a HOWTO, exporting it to HTML is a completely
automatic process.
QST, of all things, is perhaps the ideal development model. Unique among
modern publications, its columns have "conductors" rather than "authors." Maybe
what the HOWTO author really needs is a title change to "conductor?"
-- Mike
