Comments on: Looking for writers for Teaching Open Source textbook

By: Sebby Bey

Sebby Bey — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:05:00 +0000

Great idea… especially in Africa where Open source solution has not fully penetrated…

By: quaid

quaid — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:06:48 +0000

That’s fantastic, thanks. My fist glance through didn’t see an equivalent textbook, so perhaps they’d like to carry ours in their catalog. And of course, we’ll have to start looking through there for good content to reuse.

By: i, quaid › First fall textbook sprint

i, quaid › First fall textbook sprint — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:35:11 +0000

[...] getting organized and starting the big work on the next edition of the textbook. However, my recent calls for help have gained a fair amount of attention and multiple really good offers, so we are clearly underway [...]

By: Hugh Christian

Hugh Christian — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:42:03 +0000

Are you familiar with this program at UGA?

http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/news_faqs?q=node/14

By: Contribute your expertise to an open source textbook | Linux and Open Source | TechRepublic.com

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:10:10 +0000

[...] to teach open source software development processes is asking for contributions. The announcement, “Looking for writers for Teaching Open Source textbook,” describes the first version of such a [...]

By: i, quaid › Useful guide’s ideas attract people to a project

i, quaid › Useful guide’s ideas attract people to a project — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:36:38 +0000

[...] of the response’s I got to from the call for writers for the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook was an offer of an excellent content [...]

By: quaid

quaid — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:47:23 +0000

Yes, collaboration is primarily on the wiki. It has some downsides, but it is excellent for getting a large and varied writing team able to collaborate.

We convert the work to DocBook XML for publication.

Regarding the inclusion of git, since this is a first-level introduction textbook, it isn’t supposed to cover all technology permutations … or even most of them. So, no problem with including git but first we need to be sure that we have accomplished the primary goals for that chapter with just one technology. Then we can talk about adding in other tech.

By: Jose_X

Jose_X — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:05:23 +0000

Also, I noticed the chapter “Getting the Code” covers svn in detail but not git. Git should be covered as well. Lots of projects have moved to it, and it has a number of benefits.

By: Jose_X

Jose_X — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:02:03 +0000

I was just looking and it seems the book is on wiki, so, if anyone wants to contribute to existing chapters or has other ideas, my guess would be that this is a possibility as well.