Karl-
What can we do to bring more attention to this project ? Are there ways to get it registered in online directories more quickly ? What about submitting it for a Slashdot article ? (Should we wait until more work has been done before we get it Slashdotted, or do it in conjuction with the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation?)
In all due time. We are still working out /really/ basic things like license issues, name, software needs and basic policies on what to even have in our project.
For now, just search for open/free textbooks and email their authors - hopefully some of them will decide to continue development of their textbook here. I'm sure others will grant us use of their textbooks under the GNU FDL (for cases where their textbooks are not already under that license).
But let's mainly concentrate on establishing the basics first. We will get mentioned in the upcoming Wikimedia Foundation press release, but we will be mostly an aside until we actually have something impressive to show off - such as our first feature complete textbook.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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This makes good sense
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com To: textbook-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:06 PM Subject: [Textbook-l] how to get attention
Karl-
What can we do to bring more attention to this project ? Are there ways to get it registered in online directories more quickly ? What about submitting it for a Slashdot article ? (Should we wait until more work has been done before we get it Slashdotted, or do it in conjuction with the announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation?)
In all due time. We are still working out /really/ basic things like license issues, name, software needs and basic policies on what to even have in our project.
For now, just search for open/free textbooks and email their authors - hopefully some of them will decide to continue development of their textbook here. I'm sure others will grant us use of their textbooks under the GNU FDL (for cases where their textbooks are not already under that license).
But let's mainly concentrate on establishing the basics first. We will get mentioned in the upcoming Wikimedia Foundation press release, but we will be mostly an aside until we actually have something impressive to show off - such as our first feature complete textbook.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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