Think this should actually have been sent to this list :)

- Christian Bryant

-----Original Message----- From: Bryant, Christian [mailto:CABryant@mednet.ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 8:57 AM To: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Cc: 'Klaas Freitag' Subject: RE: [opensuse-marketing] The openSUSE Handbook proposal

Just as a proof-of-concept for document writing community success, see http://flossmanuals.net - easy to use, produces nice output, has a great community of contributors. In terms of wiki-to-book, Wikipedia has had that for some time, and there are some nice examples out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books I'm sure there is a way to build on that model for openSUSE.

I have both the "good-writer-skill" and "I-like-to-fiddle-with-tools-which-produce-great-outcome", as Klaas puts it. But I also have to recognize which one of these others are as well, as a project manager or in a community leader roll. It's the users that should define what is pursued here, I believe. I think the wiki-to-book functionality should definitely be added to the openSUSE wiki as an option, and if it matured to a point where all the other features discussed in this thread could be produced, then all the better. For now, I am still using Emacs to edit my openSUSE documents - but the older I get, the simpler I like things to be :) I wouldn't turn away from a nice wiki that would squirt out a publish-ready document!

Cheers,

Christian Bryant

Couldn't we find people for these two groups instead:

• Editors: People who work on content and deliver in which format they ever

want (nearly ;-) to

• Book Builders: People who get the content from the Editors and work on

building a book with the best suited tool for that? Maybe it makes more sense to devide the "good-writer-skill" from the "I-like- to-fiddle-with-tools-which-produce-great-outcome" role?

regards,

Klaas

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