On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Max Spevack wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > > Comments encouraged. Since I consider this to be an actual completed > > draft (although you may not upon reading it, heh) please put comments > > on the talk page, rather than editing the page directly: > > > > http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering/IntroductionToFOSSTalk > > Hey Greg, > > I've read over both the foreward as well as the introductory chapter > that you posted about here. > > A few comments about the intro chapter are on the talk page, as you > requested. > > I really like the voice/tone of the writing. It's formal, without being > stuffy, which I think makes it easy for people to want to keep reading, > and see what comes next. > > In particular, I love "contributor mountain". You've taken an idea that > we talk about a lot in speeches, and written it down far more eloquently > than the crappy first pass at the same thing that I made, because you > gave it a metaphor and personalized it.
It's brilliant, especially the way you qualify the difference between a collaborator and a contributor. I'm looking forward to shifting my presentations to using the mountain metaphor (with attribution of course, and a pointer to the book). -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
