[Fhsst-admin-priv] Re: fhsst

[Sam Halliday]

hi guys... here's the response of that guy, its looks quite promising!

maybe we should get a cron job set up somewhere to make nightly PS
files. i could write the script later on...

i'll get back to this guy later on too, if yous want me to say anything,
speak now.

Mark Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 20:20, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > how did you find out about out project? we are interested to see
> > what is effective at getting new recruits.
> > 
> 
> Well, I may have heard of it before, but seeing your signature on
> abiword-user reminded me of it.
> (I'm AbiWord lead QA, maintainer, and do occasional odd jobs like doc
> writing when I find time)
> Perhaps you can start an email signature campaign (-:
> 
> > the book itself is written in LaTeX, and since there are many
> > authors, we keep the book centralised and synchronised using CVS on
> > the GNU savannah server:
> > 
> >   http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=fhsst
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > 
> > we are currently thinking up a list of lots of things that people
> > like yourself could be involved in... please elaborate on your
> > skills so that i can see what is best suited: for example, could you
> > please tell me your level of understanding of the following:
> > 
> >   - using CVS
> 
> All the time, no big deal at all.  Though I imagine a lot of potential
> recruits wouldnt have the dev background.
> 
> >   - editing LaTeX files
> 
> Eh, not so strong on this.  Can I do it from LyX?
> 
> >   - education level of the sciences/maths
> 
> Informal but university-level (lower division) studies of computer
> science and physics (and more on some other subjects that aren't
> really relevant to this project), enough math to back up the former
> two (though I would not assert myself a mathematician).  By informal,
> I mean learning in laboratories and studying individual topics as
> needed, I had some somewhat unique jobs where I was trained in these
> things.  As it happens, I'll be returning back to a university next
> fall to pursue a'formal' physics education toward my masters.
> 
> >   - geographical location
> 
> Eh, that has a tendancy to change frequently.  But I spend most of my
> time in the United States.
> 
> >   - graphics (making posters etc)
> 
> Not much of an artist, sorry.
> 
> >   - printing press access: i.e. practical stuff
> 
> Not really )-:
> 
> > well, if you want to contribute content, then the best thing to do
> > is to checkout the latest CVS, edit a file and send either myself,
> > mark, spencer or the mailing list a patch (or your edited file).
> > 
> 
> Alrighty.  No promises, but I'll try to look at it next week.
> 
> > we have not had any foreign language contributors, as of yet, and
> > the book is too young for us to be considering a translation... but
> > thanks for the offer anyway.
> > 
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> > you say you would be interested in editing? what do you mean by
> > that? like, as a proof reader kind of thing? if thats the case...
> > then i suppose we are always welcome to hear feedback. i suppose
> > only on the physics chapters at this stage however as maths/chem/bio
> > is really early days.
> > 
> 
> Editing as in proof reading, or simply reading things over and
> conferring with the author on passages which come across to me as
> 'awkward' or overly [dense/simple/brief/verbose].  In my experience,
> it rarely hurts to have another set of eyes so that I can say 'I wrote
> _that_?  What was I thinking?  I never noticed that...  How would you
> word it?' etc.
> Having not seen the content yet, I don't know whether I have anything
> useful to add or not, that remains to be seen.
> 
> Who knows, if after exposing myself to the nature of the text and
> what's already laid down I don't really find much to do there, I may
> work up the cajonés to actually write new sections.  That depends
> mostly on my free time.
> 
> > if you were to become a regular contributor, we would of course
> > consider you for write access to the CVS source.
> > 
> 
> What?!  You don't take _my_ word as that of <insert deity here>?! 
> Blasphemy!  You think you can moderate _me_?  I'll DoS the lot of ya!
> 
> (just being facetious, of course you wouldn't priv someone without a
> line of code^Wtext)
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how do the stats look with regard to
> contributors, distribution of content portions and who does what?  Are
> there a lot of occasional contributors, does most of it come from a
> few people, are some subtopics treated more heavily than others?
> 
> Regards
> -MG

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