+1 Yes, Jonathan please suggest changes for the book. We need folks to look at it with new eyes and make suggestions and improvements. I'd be happy to review any changes.
Heidi > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:tos- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregory Hislop > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 11:07 AM > To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source > Subject: Re: [TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook > > 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. > > Cheers, > > Greg Hislop > Drexel University > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:tos- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Loy > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 12:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook > > Greetings TOS members, > > I am a college student currently reading the TOS textbook for my > software engineering class. I deeply appreciate the work everyone has > put into the project, and would like to also contribute by fixing typos > and/or updating portions of the textbook. For example I would like to > contribute an alternate path for Chapter 4 & 5 by using distributed > version control, namely git, but given enough time bazaar and > mercurial. Another option is to update the text to offer more specific > guidance for OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows users. > > Unfortunately, I am unable to find any working issue tracker (it just > says fix me in plain text) or another public contribution avenue for > the textbook. I am hoping the textbook project is not dead, so if you > could please inform me how to properly help this project it would be > greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my email. > > Sincerely, > > Jonathan Loy > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
