Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf - GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to make this wiki markup?
Mike
I dont know of any way to convert a PDF, unfortunately. Maybe we could contact the author and see if they have the source (TeX or whatever) that was used to generate the PDF in the first place.
On a related note, I've found out today that O'Reilly publishers occasionally release the text of their older books back to the community. Sometimes they even grant open-content licenses (such as GFDL) to reusers of this content. Maybe we could get in touch with them and scavenge through some of their older books? O'Reilly operates a wiki where they release the code of their books and (amazing!) it's MediaWiki so reuse would be direct.
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons
I may get in touch with them and see what books they have that are GFDL'd that we can get our hands on.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM, mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf - GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to make this wiki markup?
Mike
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Actually, I dug around a little bit at http:/www.thinkpython.com and found both LaTex and HTML (!!!) source code for this. It's available in 21 HTML pages. If somebody else wants to upload the raw HTML to a book, I'll run my bot over it and convert it all to wikitext.
I've created an outline for it at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Think_Python
--Andrew Whitworth
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
I dont know of any way to convert a PDF, unfortunately. Maybe we could contact the author and see if they have the source (TeX or whatever) that was used to generate the PDF in the first place.
On a related note, I've found out today that O'Reilly publishers occasionally release the text of their older books back to the community. Sometimes they even grant open-content licenses (such as GFDL) to reusers of this content. Maybe we could get in touch with them and scavenge through some of their older books? O'Reilly operates a wiki where they release the code of their books and (amazing!) it's MediaWiki so reuse would be direct.
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons
I may get in touch with them and see what books they have that are GFDL'd that we can get our hands on.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM, mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf - GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to make this wiki markup?
Mike
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