[TOS] Announcing the textbook. :)

Karl R. Wurst Karl.Wurst at worcester.edu
Fri Mar 26 12:44:02 UTC 2010


I'm planning to assign it as the text for my software engineering course
in the Fall semester. (Combined with my summer POSSE experience.)

On 3/26/10 1:21 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> We are delighted to announce the release of version 0.8 of our textbook, 
> "Practical Open Source Software Exploration: How to be Productively Lost, 
> the Open Source Way".
> 
> The URL for the SVN/Docbook release will be coming soon, when Karsten Wade 
> and his team has completed the conversion process.
> 
> The URL for the wiki release:
> http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/Textbook_Release_0.8
> 
> We are already working on the 0.9 release.  The work continues here:
> http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/Textbook_Roadmap
> 
> My heartfelt thanks to my fellow contributors, who helped over the last 
> weeks and months, and especially over the last few days: Karsten Wade, 
> Max Spevack, Chris Tyler, Mel Chua, Jeff Sheltren, and Matt Jadud.
> 
> Lots still to do, of course -- but this is our first milestone, worth 
> remembering.  With luck, the first of many.
> 
> --g
> 
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