Re: Linux Library - and GNUniversity Project

[Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline@decisions-and-designs.com.au>]

Trish wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>I read your idea with interest!
>
>A sub-group within CBV is the training group; we're just getting started 
>on versioning and continued development with our training docs, and 
>looking to develop courseware for use at varying levels from very green 
>newbie on up.
>
>Input into this training project is very very welcome! so anyone who would 
>like to join, please email me and talk to me about where you'd like to fit in.

[jacqueline] sourceforge.net is very well set up for collaborative 
projects, CVS, release, bug tracking etc. We could set up a documentation 
project there ?

>We're looking to release all our training docs and howtos under the GPL, 
>so they would of course be available to form part of the GNUniversity.

[jacqueline] http://opencontent.org/bazaar.shtml discusses the idea of a 
"maintainer" from Eric Raymond's book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 
Perhaps an open content license may be more the go ?

[jacqueline] Once the doco is available for download from sourceforge.net, 
we could also make an entry in the database at opencontent.org.

>One thing that might be very handy (to both projects) is a set of 
>teaching/training guides. Just how do we go about imparting this knowledge 
>- in a class, one-on-one, for people with special needs? And what's the 
>best way to write these up? Anyone got any ideas there?

[jacqueline] See http://www.bellanet.org/itrain/ for an example of course 
materials where instructor and student materials have been prepared for 
each subject. There is also an overall instructor manual. These are all 
provided as part of the open content license.

>We're also starting to thrash out some documentation standards - input
>into that would also be welcome.

[jacqueline] I suggest that you prepare the course materials such that they 
are platform independent. For example, for online reference documentation I 
suggest HTML that can be viewed in any browser and printed instruction 
documentation as PDF. Instruction manuals are highly structured and often 
need two columns and guiding headings and graphics.

All the best
Jacqueline



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