On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:07:05PM +0000, Gregory Hislop wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > The book project is not dead, but we would have to say it's been dormant and > there is no clear leadership at the moment. I'm hoping some of the original > authors may offer suggestions since they are still part of this community. I > was here at the time, but only had very minor involvement. > > I am part of a team of faculty working on student participation in > Humanitarian FOSS projects (see http://xcitegroup.org/humit/, > http://xcitegroup.org/softhum, and http://hfoss.org). We view our efforts as > a special interest within the TOS community, and hope to put some resources > into pushing teachingopensource.org forward. What you propose fits with that > goal, so I'm happy to hear of your interest in working on the book. > > I suggest the following: > > a) Start to fix typos > b) For the updates and alternate paths, make your changes, but notify this > list for anything "large". I hope we'll have volunteers to review what > you're doing (and I'll help with some of that, and trying to find volunteers > too). > > I'm hoping we'll get some comments yea or nay from other list members on this > approach.
Great response, Greg, IMO - direct, honest, and helpful! Looking forward to more of your & Humanitarian FOSS's efforts with TOS in the future. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
