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Fri, Feb 10th 4:28pm 2006: Writing
Just in the last couple of days I've been moving some of my drafts for Ubuntu Hacks into Aardvark, a wiki-based collaborative authoring tool being developed internally at O'Reilly. It's a bit laggy from where I sit half way around the globe but still very cool: it's excellent at allowing multiple authors to work on one project while tracking versions, editorial changes, etc. As you'd expect from something based on a wiki engine, of course.
While I've been playing around with it I've pasted in various random notes I've made for some of the hacks, so a couple of the entries in the system at present are really just dot points and snippets that don't make much sense to other people. Fine and well when they're only my personal reminder notes but I just found out today from the editor that everything in the system as of, oh, about *now*, is going to be released as part of the Rough Cuts program whereby random people can pay for access to a PDF snapshot of the book as it's being written. Kinda like an officially sanctioned leak ;-)
Which means that whatever crap I jotted down as private notes (and never intended to be seen publicly) is about to become, err, public. At least it gives me major incentive to get cracking on it.
Just in the last couple of days I've been moving some of my drafts for Ubuntu Hacks into Aardvark, a wiki-based collaborative authoring tool being developed internally at O'Reilly. It's a bit laggy from where I sit half way around the globe but still very cool: it's excellent at allowing multiple authors to work on one project while tracking versions, editorial changes, etc. As you'd expect from something based on a wiki engine, of course.
While I've been playing around with it I've pasted in various random notes I've made for some of the hacks, so a couple of the entries in the system at present are really just dot points and snippets that don't make much sense to other people. Fine and well when they're only my personal reminder notes but I just found out today from the editor that everything in the system as of, oh, about *now*, is going to be released as part of the Rough Cuts program whereby random people can pay for access to a PDF snapshot of the book as it's being written. Kinda like an officially sanctioned leak ;-)
Which means that whatever crap I jotted down as private notes (and never intended to be seen publicly) is about to become, err, public. At least it gives me major incentive to get cracking on it.
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