On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Will Martin wrote:
We at the OpenCD did include some literature about open source/free software -- "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" for one, and "Free as in Freedom", along with several other essays. What you're proposing sounds rather more ambitious; sort of a biography-of-a-program, its beginnings, growth, and continuing development. I think it sounds interesting.
I know that you have literature on the OpenCD. But it is a bunch of programs and some literature on the side. What I'm thinking about is to make the documentation more central and use the programs to sort of illustrate the documentation. I think the collection of software you have is good. I'm not proposing a biography of a program but a biography of the free software movement made easy and a bunch of good free programs to illustrate it.
Well, speaking for the OpenCD, I think we could probably find space for such a thing, provided it wasn't too big, and fits in okay. And yes, we would want it in English. :-) Incidentally, we'd love to have a Swedish translation of the OpenCD -- we are working on the second edition right now, and it will have a new installer that's easier to localize. Could we get in touch with you in a couple of months once it's getting closer to the planned release date in March?
I do know you want it in English if you wanted it. But we will start in Swedish and hopefully hava an English version very soon after the Swedish one. The reason i posted in fsfeurope and to you and the Knoppix-poeple was that we suspected that you maybe had some thoughts in this derection or atleast have a good way to distribute it. Of course I'm also interested in if anybody else are doing the same thing. Then we could just translate it to swedish.
Well, Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is pretty close to what you are proposing; it discusses the evolution of fetchmail.
I'm familiar with Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". But as I said above what I'm aiming for is the story of the free software movement as a hole illustrated with programs bundled with the story.
/Marcus