Proposal to donate the writing of an ebook/book

[John Hornbeck]

Guys,

I have just finished Tech Reviewing the Apress Ubuntu book and it should be
out in no time.  It is a great starter book and will walk people through
everything that is needed to get started.

John

On 1/30/06, Jeff Schering <jeffschering at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/30/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Wooo! another lawyer!
>
> Matthew means that in a good way... he's a lawyer too.
>
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:18 -0500, Michael Steinberg wrote:
> > > I've found the documentation useful myself--including the Desktop
> > > Starter Guide--but I was thinking of a different audience. I couldn't
> > > possibly give even the starter guide to my father, the judge I used to
> > > work for, or to the guys at Poor People United and expect them to make
> > > sense of it.
> >
>
> Your idea is a good one and will fill a void. Currently, the projects
> that the docteam works on are all intended to be viewed in yelp or in
> html, mostly after installation. We don't have a stand-alone book
> project on the go.  I'm sure many of the members would be interested
> in contributing.
>
> Ubuntu information is scattered all over the place; on the wiki, on
> the forums, on IRC, and on non-official (but not bad) sources. It
> would be very nice to have someone willing to go gather it all up in
> to one place.
>
> I suggest the following approach:
>
> 1. Hang out on the docteam IRC channel
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Contact)
> 2. Add your book idea to the meeting agenda
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/MeetingAgenda)
> 3. Come to the meeting and tell us all about it.
>
> I hope you find that you can work with us. If not, you should approach
> a few computer book publishers with your idea; it is a good one. I
> know that Manning Press and APress each have books in the works, and I
> think O'Reilly has one in German coming out soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
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