2010/9/30 Chris Watkins <chriswater...@appropedia.org> > > > 2010/9/29 Karsten Wade <kw...@redhat.com> > > >> I guess what I'm looking for is for us to not have to maintain this >> content. The less original content that we write, the less we have to >> maintain. There are a lot of places where this textbook can draw from >> other sources - take the Subversion chapter as an example. >> > > This is wise. > > Is there an active open source wiki, or Linux wiki, that can be used for > this? This would be the ideal - give others in the broader OSS community the > opportunity to easily contribute, and make it findable as part of a broad > and visible body of knowledge. > > Getting off topic a bit, but... The problem is that there doesn't seem to > be an active wiki in this field, unfortunately. Still, maybe do a search for > the best of what's out there, that uses a suitable license, and at least > that's a big step in the direction of openness, and better than maintaining > it internally. > > I just checked http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki - there's are more spam > edits than genuine ones. linux.wikia.com has large ads and little > activity, but at least the spam is removed quickly. If anyone wants to set > up or resuscitate an open source Linux or general tech wiki, I'd be happy to > happy to lend some support. >
Consider https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Main_Page. It's active and well maintained. > > Where sufficient content doesn't exist, let's write it and offer ouri >> version as a canonica reference. In the case of programming security >> >> and FOSS, I hope we can find existing works and not have to (re)invent >> this wheel. >> >> Then the work for those chapters/sections is more in gluing and >> editing, and reworking for style. >> > {...} >> > Chris Watkins
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