Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like?

[Vaidheeswaran C]

On Friday 08 May 2015 08:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 1. What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like?
> 
> It would be distributed under the GFDL, like all the other official
> Emacs books (the elisp intro, the emacs manual, and the elisp manual).

1. Should contributors to this Book do a copyright assignment?

2. (For the sake of argument) How about using contributions from
   Emacswiki.

   The Emacswiki footer reads thus:

   | This work is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General
   | Public License. Alternatively, you may choose to receive this
   | work under any other license that grants the right to use, copy,
   | modify, and/or distribute the work, as long as that license
   | imposes the restriction that derivative works have to grant the
   | same rights and impose the same restriction. For example, you may
   | choose to receive this work under the GNU Free Documentation
   | License, the CreativeCommons ShareAlike License, the XEmacs
   | manual license, or similar licenses.

>> 2. What (do maintainers think) is very necessary to
>>    kickstart/bootstrap an auxiliary GNU project in this direction?
> 
> A clear idea of what it should aim to do.

I welcome inputs.  I don't have any idea (at this point in time).

> I think there is clearly room for an "Emacs book" (e.g. something
> less intimidating/referency than the Emacs manual, and which could
> cover packages not included in Emacs).