Reminder: Call for a11y bids deadline in one week

Hi everyone, Just a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal to do a11y work with our Friends of GNOME money and Mozilla sponsorship is coming up a week from today. Details are here: http://www.gnome.org/news/2013/02/call-for-bids-for-gnome-accessibility-work/ Extra tip for thos

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. That is a kind of manual. Any book that explains how to use some software is a manual. One kind of manual is a _refer

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

FWIW, in my first email back to Packt I requested that they consider releasing this under a free license. Based on the response, I'm a little unclear about what the license terms are but I suppose it will be cleared up when we get the sample copies. I suggest you press them on this

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

I was wondering if you have to encouraging anyone to buy a book about GNOME from anywhere, and not just Amazon. There are two separate issues here: free manuals, and Amazon. For the sake of free software, we must not recommend non-free manuals. The issue of free manuals, like the issue o

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

I mean no harm to anybody :) I have liked the book and bought the kindle version of it. However my stand on that the author should decide a common ground that satisfies both the free software advocacy and the profit from writing, still stands. On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Lefty wrote: > > >

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Sindhu S wrote: > So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collation of manuals with > input that bridges them relevance between them" (using the term "development > guide"). I'm happy to pay for my developer guide, in the hope that it encourages other autho

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

Hello all, So far as I can understand: 1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. 2. Manuals are and must be free. So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collation

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

Hello all, So far as I can understand: 1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software. 2. Manuals are and must be free. So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collatio

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

Hello all and hello Stallman, On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > If it is going to be sold via Amazon, GNOME might want to look into > the Amazon non-profit affiliates program. > > Please don't encourage anyone to buy from Amazon. See > stallman.org/amazon.html fo

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

Hi! Am I too late? I'd love to read the book and review it :) I have no coding experience but my current internship has given me the confidence to contribute even more :) This book should be a good head start at things! Thank you. On 07-Mar-2013, at 1:49 AM, Karen Sandler wrote: > On Wed, Ma

Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

Does a development guide qualify as a manual to you? I don't know a precise meaning for "development guide". Is it another term for a tutorial introduction to using a program? That is a manual. There are introductory manuals, and reference manuals. Every program ought to come with full docu