On Mar 3, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Wesley Craig wrote: > On 27 Feb 2009, at 10:05, Trek Glowacki wrote: >> If anyone (preferably someone near umich) is interested in donating >> their superior technical expertise with cosign, I'd love to spend >> time writing a tiny book explaining how to set up a cosign server >> at a new institution and how to integrate apps with the new cosign >> server. > > A better contribution would be made to the wiki. It would probably > be handy if someone would take the README's, which are authoritative > for cosign, and annotate them in the wiki.
Ugh, I never though I'd say "as a certified librarian" but : as a certified librarian I couldn't disagree more. I've watched people trying to learn something new through a wiki; wikis make great reference tools but poor instructors. The consistent narrative style of books is vastly more effective for learning a group of related concepts. You get a single voice, examples that relate as a whole, and knowledge presented in an order where new subjects build upon earlier ones. Compare something like the Rails Wiki (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/) and the Rails Guides (http://guides.rails.info/). Both are useful, but each has a different audience in mind. That said, I had no takers for superior technical knowledge donation, so the point is moot I suppose. -Trek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Cosign-discuss mailing list Cosign-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cosign-discuss
