MC Book-other ideas

[Ray Horsley]

on 10/4/02 7:17 AM, TBleiler at aol.com at TBleiler at aol.com wrote:

> The fastest way to get such a book would be for members of this list to
> submit their solutions to various challenges to an editor(s). If someone with
> good writing skills could volunteer to be the editor, that would be great.
> 
> Another way might be to "write the book" through this list. Many of us would
> have to do a little work, but that might be more practical than one of us
> trying to find the time to do a lot of work. To begin, we'd have to come up
> with a list of chapters; there was a good start in an earlier post. Then,
> people who "know the answers" could post their solutions. One of the people
> who understands the content and can write fairly well would have to volunteer
> to consolidate the solutions into a chapter. They could then post the chapter
> for review by the members of the list. If this is deemed an inappropriate use
> of the list, most of the work could be shifted off list. Think of it as open
> source book writing.
> 
> Tim Bleiler
> University at Buffalo
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I think this is a good idea.  I'm certainly willing to forward my own
problems/solutions to such an effort.

Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt1