Helping editing new Official Ubuntu Book recipes

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Friday 08 September 2006 14:27, Matthew East wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Jono Bacon:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am one of the co-authors of the Official Ubuntu Book, a book available
> > in print and under a Creative Commons license. The book was written for
> > Dapper and has had a really positive reception.
> >
> > Anyway, with Edgy looming, we are interested in expanding the book to
> > cover chunks of edgy. This edition won't go into print, but will be
> > distributed online and possibly be included in Edgy, depending on space
> > constraints on the CD.
>
> If the book is going to be distributed online and on the CD, I really
> think that our efforts in the next release and beyond should be focused
> on integrating some of that material into the Ubuntu help system (Yelp).
>
> Books don't make good on-screen help, and if an "official book" appears
> in Edgy or a website, users will naturally assume that the existing help
> system and help website are inferior to that, and will not use them.
> Hopefully, if the book is under a free license, that means the source
> will be available and we can try and integrate it into our
> documentation, adapting the style to try and suit on-screen help. It's
> too late to do that for Edgy, but we should make it a high priority for
> Edgy+1.
>
> > we really need some help in
> > getting the submissions edited. This is likely to be a tight deadline
> > (next few weeks) so if the documentation superstars here can help, that
> > would be awesome! :)
>
> I won't personally be much help - I'm going to be offline for the next
> few weeks on holiday. But if the submissions are made available in the
> docteam repo, then anyone with access can chip in and help edit, time
> permitting.
>
> Matt

The book should be under CC-SA license if I recall correctly which is why we 
are trying to make the change in our license of docs to make them compatible.