Towards 3.0

[Holger Dinkel]

 On [06. Feb. 2013], Robert C. Helling <helling at lmu.de> wrote:

> I am certainly willing to do my share of work. But let me say that my 
> experience is that texts do not get better if several people write them. I 
> would opt for one main author and of course everybody can suggest 
> improvements. Otherwise a lot of ironing out style differences will be 
> required.

I hear you ;-)

How about this: 
Tonight, I'll try to hack something together, then I'll paste the piratepad link for
everybody to have a look and make comments and we'll see where to go from there?

> Regarding republishing and licensing: I think you overestimate problems. 
> The original authors have all rights and can of course pubish their work 
> several times with different licenses, i.e. you can publish the same text 
> once with a CC license say and still publish it in closed form in a 
> commercial magzine (without the restrictions other people would face 
> republishing the CC version) . You only run into problems if some 
> media outlet insists on exclusiveness (like: If we take your article you 
> are not allowed to republish it again on the German market).

...and many do, sadly.

> I also think you need different texts for different audiences: For the 
> open source./Linux crowd that might happen to dive as well you probably 
> want to write something along the lines of what Dirk did in his 
> presentation last week (I guess). Dirk, do you have any notes or is there 
> even a recording? If you address the general diver (with no particular 
> computer background), you mainly want to explain what you can do with the 
> programm and why it might be better than what they are using so far.

Dirk, do you think your presentation might be useful as a start or even just as
a guideline to ensure all topics that you deem important are covered in the article?
If so, would you like to share it?

Best,

Holger