A crazy idea?

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Its already been done. :)

On 9/21/09, Andy Watson <watson516 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> As it happens, this is my first email to the Ubuntu Canada mailing list. In
> fact, it's my first email to any mailing list. Anyhow, I had an idea last
> night that I thought might work out all right and need you folks to help
> (providing it is general thought to be a good idea).
>
> So, the idea I came up with was to write an open source Ubuntu book where
> anyone could write appropriate topics and it would all get included in the
> book. I have read around a bit that this type of idea is not a very good one
> because of all the people with the different writing styles and everything
> but I thought that if we could get a person in the community to take on the
> job of an editor (could be me or someone else, doesn't matter), they could
> rewrite portions of it to make it all sound roughly the same in terms of
> style and quality.
>
> If this was successful, we could put the proceeds back into the Canadian
> Ubuntu community.
>
> Why do we need another Ubuntu book? With the combined efforts of everyone
> (or some people) on this list or off this list in the Canadian Ubuntu
> community, we should be able to create a book that is worth reading due
> partially to everyone's different experiences with Ubuntu. We could section
> it off into different parts, each focusing on a different 'flavour' of
> Ubuntu or Desktop/Server, etc.
>
> So, what does everyone think?
>

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