[Fwd: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'ReillyOpen Source Convention]]

[Camille Bégnis <camille@mandrakesoft.com>]

Hi all,

While reading the article at the end of that message, I wish I had been
there.
Everyone seems to agree to use DocBook, very well. However, in the
opinion of the author himself, the jadetex processing tool is not suited
for professional books.

I am personally not really happy with jadetex and some others too I
know.
Do the other people here use it?
Are you happy with it?
Do you use something else?
Did you think in developing something else?

I have unhopeful not the sufficient skills in TeX to initiate it myself,
but we, at MandrakeSoft, are interested in participating in the project
of developing a new solution. A completely rewritten "print" stylesheet,
generating true LaTeX seems to be the solution.

Camille.


-------- Original Message --------
From: Dan York <dyork@linuxcare.com>
Subject: [Fwd: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly
Open Source Convention]
Resent-From: ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org
To: ldp-discuss <ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org>

FYI, this came in from O'Reilly... sounds like an interesting meeting...

Regards,
Dan

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open
Source
Convention
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carmel Noah <cammie@oreilly.com>
To: dan@lpi.org

On Sunday, July 16, O'Reilly sponsored an all-day pre-conference
meeting on improving the documentation that accompanies open source
software. Participants at the Open Documentation Summit included
representatives of open source documentation from the Linux
Documentation Project, GNOME, KDE, FreeBSD, BSDI, SourceForge, Samba,
OASIS, Los Alamos National Labs, Python, and Open Content.

O'Reilly Editor-in-Chief Frank Willison reports on what came out of the
meeting:

http://www.oreilly.com/frank/oscon_summit.html