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Tue Jul 13 10:16:35 UTC 2010


be all sorts of expertise levels involved.  Their authoritative
product is DocBook XML in a Subversion (SVN) repository.  Because the
"book" published on the web is the probable first contact point for a
new participant (someone who would use the book to build a system),
SVN is not a major hurdle.  Most of the discussion occurs on the
mailing lists and a few folks maintain the SVN in sync with the
discussion.

I hope you see the parallels to the Textbook Project at Teaching Open
Source.  The POSSE event participants and teachers in classrooms will
be using the textbook and contributing revisions and additions.   They
need to be Subject Matter Experts, not SVN experts.



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