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(a)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

This is all very interesting, and mirrors an idea that I've been kicking around in my own head. The people at Wikiversity, I know, conduct occasional meetings on IRC, in addition to the typical online banter. I would like to do the same thing for Wikibooks, but I would like to try to gather more participants then the handful of usuals that #wikibooks sees. Whereabouts are you located Adam, if you don't mind me asking? I'm in PA myself and would be willing to meet up with like-minded people if the commute wasn't too terrible. If IRL is impossible, online meetings would be the next best thing. I definitely think we should put something on the calendar, prepare some discussion topics and maybe get a few speakers, etc. --andrew whitworth On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:16 AM, adam hyde <adam(a)flossmanuals.net> wrote: > 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(a)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 >> >> > -- > Adam Hyde > FLOSS Manuals > > http://www.flossmanuals.net > + 31 6 2808 7108 > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > Textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l > >