ok...maybe this is the wrong thing to do but i am going to let a little frustration seep out..,.
i am from FLOSS Manuals and we used to supply the toolset for TOS to create your first book. Somehow we got cut out of the equation and no one talked to us. Thats ok, its your content but I felt it a little weird. Then I saw Karsten had built some kind of repo tool for your content. Also frustrating since we have exactly this tool available (www.booki.cc) and I wrote to Karsten to say this and then no reply. Now I see there is a discussion about 'acquiring' materials for teaching open source participation and again no mention that we have over 49 manuals many in multiple languages and still no mention of working with us. I am finding out slowly I think that you guys are building a little empire and seem to have no interest in collaboration with people in your sector,who have offered tools and help, who have been on this list since day one, and who have material that you explicitly say you need. instead i see whacky discussions about scribd (who incidently scrape all of our manuals) ugh adam On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:03 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 04:45:16PM -0700, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: > > I did some digging on Scribd. The format they developed is called iPaper - > > it is Flash based, similar to PDF in function, and has an open API. You can > > attach any license to a document, including Creative Commons. Think of it > > as Google Docs meets PDF, but the main goal is social-media-style sharing. > > The tools don't favor open source, nor do they appear to restrict it in any > > way. > > The site usage policies apply all sorts of restrictions that are > structured and controlling (and non-freed), which would be another > reservation. > > What I might suggest is that we look around these types of > self-publishing sites for materials that might be useful for teaching > open source participation. If we find something, we can approach the > author about licensing and obtaining sources. > > - Karsten > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
