MC Book-other ideas

[Phil Davis]

To expand on the DB backend website idea: 

One possibility (maybe more easily doable, probably less fraught with ownership issues, and certainly more current, than a book) would be to create a MC documentation site similar to the one for MySQL (see http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html ). In that site, each docs page allows registered webusers to add comments at the end. Check it out - some are very helpful, sometimes taking the form of a conversation. Here's an example: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Variables.html

If docs pages allowed readers to add comments, we could all add our notes to the parts we've learned best, and pretty soon we'll have something *very* helpful.

(I personally think the MySQL doc site is a good model of how to do it right.)

Phil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Becker" <karl at karlbecker.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: MC Book-other ideas


> Would a website with a database backend (the guy who made mctools.org, 
> this would be a great use of those mad database skills ;-) ) be the 
> best way to work this out, or would simply posting to some email list 
> be better?  I almost think the email would be easier, since it would be 
> more in-my-face instead of requiring me to type in some URL.
> 
> I also am willing to forward my problems/solutions, as well.  I tend to 
> think I have a pretty good grasp of this crazy English language, so I'd 
> be happy to be an editor.  Of course, cutting/editing people's work is 
> always a touchy subject, so everyone would have to know that all the 
> editors are simply doing their job if they cut/rearrange an article.  
> Editing isn't a personal slam, unless you have a mean, 
> personally-slamming editor!
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 12:31  PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
> 
> > 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
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