On 4 Sep 2008, at 17:05, Timothy Sweetser wrote:
When people only have an hour a day, and may only write a paragraph or two, I think that works against us. You decrease the contribution pool and increase the amount of effort required to get somewhere.
That's a fair point. The sort of thing I was talking about may require more central steering than is possible with piecemeal contributions from a large group.
That said, a mechanism already exists to collect isolated contributions on a variety of topics from a wide range of people, namely the existing wiki. And good luck to anyone trying to wrap a narrative structure around the disparate collection of HOWTO-like snippets in your typical open-source project wiki. The only kind of book that could result from such an exercise would be one of those "cookbook"-style books, the ones that catalog a large number of free- standing techniques. Perhaps pragmatism should dictate that that is what is aimed for here.
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