On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:33 PM, hizibiz <[email protected]> wrote: > So we have two expression of interests, one from Merrut group, one from Mr. > Rao ( Are you from gtcdrom.com ? ) . I have contacted another publisher in > Kolkata - things are still in very early stage . Now it becomes easier for > Dr. Nagarjuna to find the best interest for FSF India chapter . > > What is probably needed now is to do a need survey or run an opinion poll to > find which manuals needs to be printed and in what order . We can take a set > of five in first go and get into the second set of discussion . >
A survey is not really needed. Power users and programmers will purchase/print themselves. The main goal should be to target people with less resources. What may be likely useful is known to us. We should have a content team to assess the impact of specific manuals and provide relevant ratings. I can help with this part. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc > Anyone in-sync with Dr. Nagarjuna on this initiative, please mail me > off-list with your contact number . We can set up a call to discuss further. > We need a volunteer to host an opinion poll somewhere ( its not needed if > someone has already done a need survey ) - any takeres please raise your > hand . > > Please feel free to correct / add if I have missed something . > > tks & regs > -hizibiz > > ________________________________ > From: Narendra Sisodiya <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 10:33 AM > Subject: Re: [GNU/Linux-discussion] FSF manuals: Indian Publishing > > > > On Saturday, April 14, 2012 9:25:24 AM UTC+5:30, Mohit Singh (GLUG-Meerut) > wrote: > > Dear RMS and other FOSSouls, > > Its really a nice idea to print FSF manuals in India as LOW > PRICE/DEVELOPING NATION EDITIONS (commercial booksellers like Pearson, > Mcgraw-hill etc. frequently publish in India this way and they dont > allow export of such edition to the countries outside the Developing > Nation domain decided by them - FSF may be liberal at this point). > I am from Meerut, near Delhi and as you all know, Meerut publishing > industry is known worldwide. > If RMS permits, GLUG Meerut can approach the Meerut publishers to do > this at least for this part of the world. > > Regards, > Mohit Singh > ------------------ > GNU/Linux User Group, Meerut > > > You need to contact him directly ! > Also, most of his work available to copy and share ! > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ilug-cal.info/mailman/listinfo/linux-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ilug-cal.info/mailman/listinfo/linux-discussion > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
