Re: [school-discuss] Has this book already been written? - "Linuxand Open Source in Academia"

[Yishay Mor <y.mor@ioe.ac.uk>]

Wonderful initiative. If I may suggest, publish it on wikibooks, so that 
it gets maximum exposure and can be easily ported to other languages.

http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal

- Yishay

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:

> I have en idea for a book. But before starting writing I would like to know if 
> a book like this already exist.
>
> The idea is a "Linux and Open Source in Academia". My target group is the 
> non-technical students a highter education such a social science and 
> humanities at university. People who are not interested in the computer 
> itself and get confused with a 1000 choises - but need conreat and powerful 
> solutions and something that just works" for their everyday tasks. Those 
> people who without the book will working with Windows, MS-Word and Endnote.
>
> The books is currently "in the making" in Danish, but I would like to do an 
> English edition if a book like this dosen't already exist.
>
> A small webpage about my idea:
> http://janus.dk/linux_in_academia/
>
> Response?
>
> -j
>
>  
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