On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:33:00AM -0700, David Lawyer
wrote:
>
> With the simple LinuxDoc available, encoding in DocBook
is not a high
> priority task IMO. Translation is done by people in
non-English
> speaking countries so this is not a high priority task
either. But
> volunteers are needed as authors and to help maintain
our website as
> well as for creating a content managment system (like
Plone) and also
> a wiki. We also need better follow up for people who
propose to write
> howtos for us, etc. Someone need to sort out old
howtos and determine
> which ones are too far out of date, etc. We also need
recruiters and
> reviewers. Thus we need volunteers to do
administrative tasks.
>
Translation is at least as high priority as English
documentation.
If you don't think so, then you're obviously from the
"world speaks
English" camp. I'm in England - that can't even be
guaranteed for 40
miles away in Wales 
> I think that before we accept people to help administer
LDP, they
> should have either written at least one good document,
either for LDP
> or elsewhere. In order to help admisinister an
organization that
> has authors hopefully writing good quality
documentation, the
> administrators should at least be capable of doing the
same.
>
> > I would like to hear more about what specific
advantages/costs would
> > be associated with joining SPI though.
> >
> > Cheers, Ian Hakes DB2 for Linux Howto
> >
>
> >David Lawyer
> ><dave lafn.org>
> >To discussen.tldp.org
> >10/31/2007 01:35 AM
> >cc
> >Subjectl [discuss] LDP Incorporate under
"Software in the Public Interest"
>
> (I've deleted the "A" typo. DL)
> > Several months ago I started a discussion about
getting an EIN
> > number from the IRS but found that it wouldn't
help much. Then the
> > discussion changed to possible incorporation of
LDP but nothing
> > happened. So now I'm proposing that we become a
part of "Software
> > in the Public Interest" (SPI) if they will
accept us. That way we
> > remain independent but are incorporated under the
umbrella
> > organization, SPI.
> >
Good idea - it works for Debian and other projects.
Andy
> >
> > I understand that the way it works is that we are
free to leave SPI
> > if we decide to. Then we would no longer be
incorporated and would
> > probably want to incorporate on our own if we
found it advantageous
> > to be a corporation. I'll need to look into how
SPI would handle
> > and invest our money.
> >
> > David
Lawyer
> >
I'm sure that they'll advise - even if some people may
disagree, they
are very open about their business.
AndyC
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