Hi Mike,
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mike.lifeguard
<mikelifeguard(a)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