Hi Mike,
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
just organize a time to get people together in #wikibooks on irc.freenode.net. We'd set up a roster of topics to cover and just fire around ideas for a while.
That's a fine idea. It might also be helpful to have a regular time (once a month?) for people who are interested but can't come the first time.
If you're interested, please reply with any comments, but in particular include:
- Whether you'd prefer to have the meeting via Skype or in IRC
- What timezone & availability you have (I'm thinking next Friday or Saturday, probably)
IRC and saturday are great.
- Any further ideas you have for community-building in Wikibooks
Book-read/writing clubs!
Consider/write about horizontal links with related communities : - should groups building other formats of collaborative/editable books think about populating equivalent namespaces on wikibooks?
Consider/write about tools for people making derivatives of existing books : - if Wikisource grows as well, say to include the text of historical/older books that are ready for modern revisions, would updated editions, or derivatives made for new audiences, be appropriate on wikibooks? how would you name a series of such books?
To get us started, Whiteknight and I were discussing reaching out to universities and other charities for book donations on specific topics (such as a book on cancer from an organization which deals with breast cancer) as well as recruiting editors
What's the division of scope between wikisource and wikibooks for such works?
SJ