Making paper copies of the ubuntu-doc guides available

[Jane Silber]

Hi all -

>I'm writing to ask your opinion on an idea one of the members of the
>Documentation Team had for making published copies of the guides that we
>are shipping with Dapper. He pointed out that we could potentially sign
>up with a publishing company which does "pay as you go" production of
>books. What we had envisaged was to include in the guides a link to the
>website of such a publisher (e.g. http://www.lulu.com) from which a
>reader could obtain a printed copy if they wished.\
>
Great idea!

>
>Corey raised an objection to the idea on the basis that he was concerned
>that doing this might compete with the Official Ubuntu Book, sponsored
>by Canonical. 
>
I appreciate the concern, but I don't see a problem with this.

>Do you have any thoughts about the idea? Obviously, it is something that
>would need Canonical's approval to go ahead with it.
>  
>
No problem at all on this end.  Will we be able to get data back in 
terms of how many are produced and in what languages? This isn't 
critical, but it would be interesting and valuable data to be able to 
assess the program and future similar efforts.

Cheers,
Jane