[gtk-book] Welcome to GtkBook Project
- From: Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130@xxxxxxxx>
- To: gtk-book@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:50:04 +0530
GTK Book list:
+ To discuss & manage the work-flow of writing 'A journey through GTK+'
+ To help new authors & project maintainers, keep the book upto-date.
Hello guys!
Welcome to the GtkBook project.
I am Muthiah Annamalai, and I will the co-ordinator
for this project.
1.
First I would like all of you to get the project tarball
from
http://www.nitt.edu/profiles/profiles/2001/ec10130/GtkBook.tgz
Read the 'AIMS','license','README' files, and terms on 'LICENSE'.
We want the book to be freely read, modifiable and distributeable.
So like our friend Elijah, said we ought to keep code in public domain,
and the text under GFDL, CreativeCommons, Opencontent etc like licenses.
Authors own copyrights [or copylefts!] to their work [Code, Images, Text].
Primary motivation is to track GTK+, which is a moving target. Any effort
made which is unmodifiable will be really useless, in future sense, when
future versions of GTK+ will obsolete us.
2.
Have a look at it, to get a feel of the current status of GtkBook.
Look into the file contents.xml and find out where you will
best contribute your skills, and code.
3.
Mail to this mailinglist to lock your task, so that we may prevent
people duplicating efforts within our group.
4.Mail your expected date of completion/meeting the deadline, for this
chapter/section you will take up.
5.Deliver it!
Post the 'chapter' + 'code' + 'images' as a tarball to me
<dearestchum[-aT-]yahoo.co.in>, and attach your license you want the
chapters & code to be distributed.
The [Plan-of-Action] is this:
1.
We will attempt to write all 15 chapters + 5 appendices within May, 2005.
2.
Then editing,typesetting, cover design, and final review.
3.
Finally we can have the book published in hardcopy from O'rielly,
or through GNOME Foundation [?!] or let it be a upto-the-minute E-Book.
[Writing Conventions].
See: Readme file.
You may write in XML [example doc in tarbal], Latex, or plain text.
[Software]
Use versions of GTK+2.4 >= to base your examples comments, code.
Talk about GTK+2.6, its released.
For GNOME section use GNOME 2.8 /2.10, both are out & stable.
Use GNU/Linux.
Like any good FOSS project we need to divide the work, and
get it completed so we must have a reporting schedule.
I hope all of you will mail back on what sections you want to
work on, and we can share the job mutually exclusive manner.
Lets Hack Octave-Gtk.
http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net
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