Don Marti, editor of Linux Journal, contacted me about doing an article on wikipedia for LJ. I wrote back with a couple of proposals, and they chose the one described here:
Another article might be a technical article about how we're handling our growth using all open source software, and the specific software challenges of an open collaborative writing project. We could use more developers, and obviously an interesting article about our software might bring us some wonderful new talent.
I'm the guy to write the first article, but I'm not our best technical guy, so I'd want to co-author the second article with one of our developers, which might take a bit longer.
Would someone like to volunteer to co-author the second article?
It probably makes the most sense to have someone do this who has really dirty hands from the code. My guess is that an LJ publication is a nice resume enhancer.
--Jimbo
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