Dear all, I am happy to announce (with some delay ;-) the recent release of "Open Advice" [1], a free book about free software. The book is a collection of 42 short essays by experienced contributors of Free Software projects, each inspired by the question "What would I have wished to know when I started?" The result is a compilation of many interesting insights on a wide range of topics (covering everything from code development, project management, and mentoring to community building, business exploitation, and legal aspects). Many chapters are actually interesting beyond Open Source or even software development.
For more information and free download, see the book's web site [1]. Paper copies are also available at a very reasonable price [2]. The website further offers a mailing list for discussions, ebook versions, and a bugtracker for reporting errata :-). The project has largely been driven by Lydia Pintscher, who you will also know from this list. I have had the pleasure to contribute a little chapter as well, but the strength of the book really is not in any single contribution (all of which are quite short), but in the plurality of perspectives and experiences that have been brought together. Cheers, Markus [1] http://open-advice.org/ [2] http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/open-advice/18865584 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
