On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:21:23AM +0200, adam wrote: > 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 >
As someone who just joined the list, I did not know about your connection to TOS but now that you bring it up, I hope the rest of the folks can explain how your website is not suitable for their purposes so that I can have an understanding of why they would consider one site vs another for the storage of their teaching materials. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.| http://kevix.myopenid.com......| | : :' : The Universal OS....| mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/.| | `. `' http://www.debian.org/.| http://counter.li.org [#238656]| |___`-____Unless I ask to be CCd,.assume I am subscribed._________| _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
