Would the Wiki concept be appropriate?
http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
The manual would exist on a web site and could be edited by TR-Log
subscribers to correct and update sections.
73 de Anthony VA7IRL
trlog-request@contesting.com wrote:
> Subject:
> [Trlog] TRmanual status
> From:
> n7dr@arrl.net
> Date:
> Thu, 7 Jul 2005 20:39:17 -0700
> To:
> TR Log Reflector <trlog@contesting.com>
>
> To:
> TR Log Reflector <trlog@contesting.com>
>
>
>For the last few years, it has been my honour and privilege to produce and
>maintain the manual for TR.
>
>I find that I can no longer now give this job the attention that it needs
>and deserves, and, after consultation with Tree, I would like to propose
>that instead of maintaining the manual as a "proprietary" document, it be
>released under some suitable documentation license so that others can
>contribute to it as their interest and desire dictate.
>
>I'm not sure exactly how the logistics of this are going to work, but I
>anticipate something pretty simple, basically like this:
>
>all the files that are used to build the manual are released to some
>sort of hosting service (I looked at sourceforge, but it's not at all
>clear that they will accept a project that is documentation for a non OSS
>program);
>some number of people (I am willing to be one of these) are granted
>write access to the CVS or SVN database, and basically act as moderators
>for changes.
>
>So the questions that face me at the moment are:
> 1. what is a suitable license?
> 2. where is a suitable hosting site?
> 3. is anyone else interested in being a moderator?
>
>I would be happy to receive responses to any of these questions, either
>privately or publicly.
>
>FWIW, the manual is in LaTeX.
>
>Doc N7DR
>
>
>
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