[TOS] Welcome & new content for textbook plans

[Karsten Wade]

The other day I wrote a blog post[1] asking for help on sourcing
content, writing, and editing for the new chapters in the "Practical
Open Source Software Exploration" textbook.

This email is to say welcome to these new folks, and to point them at
where the main collaboration is happening around this textbook (if
they are interested in that.)  I don't know if any of them are on this
mailing list yet, but I'm going to be inviting them via various
channels.  [Some of you are Bcc:'d on this email, if I have your
address.]  To join, go here:

http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos

Some folks have kindly offered their CC BY/SA licensed content as
source material, which is fantastic.  Others are offering to write,
edit, and review the content.  Great!  We are off to a good start.

This list is where we are doing our discussion and collaboration.  One
reason is that the very professors using the textbook and requesting
the new content areas are on this list.  (If we ever get to be too
annoying, we can always fork a new list.)

We'll be working with various source content as a downstream, which
we've done already using content about Subversion.  Since writing,
like other art forms, can be considered "complete", we may not be in a
direct position to contribute changes back upstream.  There are,
however, other ways to be a good downstream: 

* Clearly identify the source and highlight the upstream source,
  including source for obtaining a hard copy of the upstream work;
* Contribute back any simple (grammatical, etc.) changes;
* Watch for and update our work based on changes or updates from the
  upstream, such as further publications;
* Both remix and use as an academic reference, where applicable; 
* And so forth.

Here is the list of sources so far, which we need to tie back to the
chapters that can borrow from these sources:

http://fsmsh.com/2770
http://ann.barcomb.org/

Welcome, now or in advance. :)

- Karsten

[1] http://iquaid.org/2010/09/23/looking-for-writers-for-teaching-open-source-textbook/
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