Hey ,
good to hear from you about this :)
I was thinking about a structured event...online or offline...to pick some topics and invite people to speak and follow it with discussion (also, I should point out i am not strictly speaking a wikimedian, i am part of floss manuals which is a wiki dedicated to making free manuals on free software).
there are several topics in this area that might not quite coincide with other wikimedia foundation projects but are more book-specific which would be interesting to discuss such as : * collaborative authoring and the place of the author * remixing books * current technologies * structuring book content within a wiki * output formats * print on demand technologies and models * wikis and publishing * legal issues (when does a wiki become a publisher etc) * invariant sections vs derivative works * what is the ideal book license?
etc etc etc
i should have proposed this for wikimania in alex or tried to get it together there on the spot but it was a bit hectic. but perhaps a series of discussions that culminates with a irl meet for those that attend wm 09?
adam
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 07:51 -0300, mike.lifeguard wrote:
I'd love to get some Wikibookians together and just chat! I (can be) on Skype if you're interested in that - I had some very good conversations a few weeks back with some Wikipedians & if we get a few Wikibookians together, I imagine it'd be a good time.
But we always have #wikibooks on irc.freenode.net for exactly this sort of thing. It's an open channel; you're welcome to /join :D
As for meeting IRL - we are very spread out, and I don't know whether any of us go to Wikimedia meetups (would be interested to know). Except folks in Pennsylvania, who I think see each other IRL reasonably often, as there are 3 (maybe) of them fairly close.
-Mike.lifeguard
-----Original Message----- From: textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:textbook-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of adam hyde Sent: July 30, 2008 5:53 AM To: Wikimedia textbook discussion Subject: [Textbook-l] books and things
hi,
I was wondering if it might be interesting to have an informal gathering about wikis and books...I'd love to talk to more wikibooks ppl (and others) about general and specific issues surrounding licenses, tech, process etc
either a realspace meeting or a organised series of discussions via VOIP or similar...
anyone keen for something like this?
adam