[TOS] Scribd

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Sun Jun 27 23:28:38 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 01:03:43PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> 
> I understand the branding issue. But there are technical ways around that. You
> can make a rebranded flossmanuals.net subsite with TOS logos. And have
> teachingopensouce.com/book redirect to that. So the user would enter the TOS
> site and see a rebranded FM subsite and just go and edit away. But at some point,
> they could go to FM directly and still see the material there and also have
> other FLOSS folks see and edit it as well. Just a thought, but that would take
> time and you made a decision because you needed to get work done.

Sure, I get that.  I addressed branding because I was trying to
understand collaborating when:

* The toolset from FM didn't (or doesn't) meet the needs we have in
  writing and publishing a textbook.

* The brand from FM didn't (or doesn't) meet the needs we have in
  marketing one or more textbooks to people interested in learning
  open source participation.

You address the second, but it doesn't make sense to do that until
you've addressed the first.

The problem, of course, is that we failed to keep a record of the
discussion and decision around switching tools.  We could maybe dig
some of it up (IRC logs, for example).  We might as well do a current
review of the tools.  My concern is, we have a tight deadline to do
work before end of August.  Is a toolset review and switch a good idea
right now?

Is anyone interested in getting a tool review underway?  I think I can
enumerate many MUST have attributes fairly well, to give us a place to
start from.

- Karsten
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