Andrew Whitworth wrote:
- Look for "friends" and "partners". I know the foundation has a
policy (or at least I seem to remember that it used to) against forming official partnerships, but that doesnt mean we can't find like-minded organizations and open pathways for communication and possibly collaboration. Some sites that immediately come to mind are libsuccess.org and textbookrevolution.org. It has been discussed before, but we should be aiming to get our best core books pre-loaded onto OLPC laptops. These are just a few of many possibly collaborations we could form. We can share GFDL-based content and contributors between many such "friends".
We've dealt with Pearson Scott Foresman[1], a rather notable textbook producer, in the past, to the extent that they've donated a huge amount of no-longer-published illustrations[2]. We've also received letters or emails when they've reused illustrations from our projects.
I'd certainly consider them a friend.
Cary Bass
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Scott_Foresman [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pearson_Scott_Foresman