[Fsf-friends] FLOSS "Concept Booklet" WIKI!

[Aniruddha Shankar]

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The FLOSS Concept Booklet Wiki is online at

http://wikibooks.org/wiki/FLOSS_Concept_Booklet

For those who are not exactly clear on what a wiki is, it's a
collaborative Web site comprised of the collective work of many authors.
Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to easily
edit, delete or modify content that has been placed there.

This method of working, apart from being a literal application of the
collaborative opensource methodology will allow many many more people
than would otherwise be possible to contribute. The more the people who
read, comment and modify, the denser will be this resource base, so
please, people, contribute!

The original introduction to the FLOSS Concept Booklet that I had posted
in my earlier mail is appended with the appropriate modifications:

Hello.
	I work in a non-profit organisation (www.sarai.net) that is deeply
involved in and committed to Free/Libre/Open Source Software. We're in
the process of creating and publishing a Concept Booklet on
Free/Libre/Open Source Software that will, hopefully, be accessible even
to people with an extremely limited understanding of computers and
absolutely no knowledge of open source/free/libre software. In
collaboration with one such layperson, we created a set of questions on
FLOSS and are in the process of generating the answers and the
additional content for the concept booklet. We'd be thrilled if you
people would contribute as many answers as you can to the questions that
are outlined in the wiki. Of course, please feel free to comment on the
existing questions and to make additions to them.
	All contributions will be gratefully acknowledged. The booklet will
either be published under the Creative Commons/Share Alike License or
the GNU Free Documentation License and distributed free or at a nominal
cost. We will, of course, be providing a full version online, including
print-quality PDFs.
	This call for contributions from the wider community interested in
free/libre/open source software is an effort to extend the methodology
used in creating free software into the arena of collaborative
publishing. All contributions, no matter how small, trivial or they
might seem, are extremely valuable to us.  Please, do take the time to
read the questions and contribute, if possible. I apologise to those who
are subscribed to two or more of the lists to which this is posted for
the crosspost. Please feel free to forward this email to people or
entities that you feel might be helpful.

cheers,

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Aniruddha 'Karim' Shankar
The Sarai Programme

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