Andrew Whitworth wrote:
2) 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>