[Textbook-l] how to get attention

[Sanford Forte]

This makes good sense

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <textbook-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: [Textbook-l] how to get attention


> Karl-
> > What can we do to bring more attention to this 
> > project ? Are there ways to get it registered in 
> > online directories more quickly ? What about 
> > submitting it for a Slashdot article ? (Should we 
> > wait until more work has been done before we get it 
> > Slashdotted, or do it in conjuction with the 
> > announcement of the Wikimedia Foundation?)
> 
> In all due time. We are still working out /really/
> basic things like license issues, name, software needs
> and basic policies on what to even have in our
> project.
> 
> For now, just search for open/free textbooks and email
> their authors - hopefully some of them will decide to
> continue development of their textbook here. I'm sure
> others will grant us use of their textbooks under the
> GNU FDL (for cases where their textbooks are not
> already under that license).
> 
> But let's mainly concentrate on establishing the
> basics first. We will get mentioned in the upcoming
> Wikimedia Foundation press release, but we will be
> mostly an aside until we actually have something
> impressive to show off - such as our first feature
> complete textbook.
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
> 
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