Ubuntu book

[Ben Edwards]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:27:37 +0100, sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
> > What debian material would you base it on?  Remember we are talking
> > about an easy to understand guide for non-teche desktop users - i
> > think?
> >
> > Ben
> The debian users guide was based on the progeny users guide.  This was a
> debian based distro with similar aims to ubuntu.  world domination via
> the desktop route ;-)

Do you have a URL for this?
 
> so it starts with all the right stuff and just needs things adding to
> it.  This IMHO is a better start than reinventing the wheel just for the
> sake of it.
> 
> I am willing to co-ordinate the 'porting' of this document to ubuntu and
> the addition of the new bits required to fully realise the vision, plus
> the all important upstream version (something that is very important to
> me).  Because the rough outline is already there it might be posible to
> work on the new wiki with this document.  But it might be easier to work
> in a fully version controlled system using the original docbook for the
> time being.
> 
> I believe the target for the full ubuntu version of this document should
> be hoary but with a version being worked on now for warty so people can
> get benefit from it immediately.
> 
> We need to decide in the meeting what licences to use for generic docs.
>  I would prefer it for John's book to use a compatable licence to make
> it easy to share resources.  But if they have different licences we need
> to make sure we check with the authors of the other document we can have
> permission to relicence sections.

how about 'Creative Commons'.

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> sparkes
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