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<li><em>To</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: howto get paid for writing a howto</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Poet/Joshua Drake <<A HREF="mailto:jd@linuxports.com">jd@linuxports.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 10:00:57 -0700 (PDT)</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: <A HREF="mailto:guylhem@ifrance.com">guylhem@ifrance.com</A>, mike merrill <<A HREF="mailto:kmikeym@linuxfund.org">kmikeym@linuxfund.org</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg03744.html">20000827101710.C134@localhost</a>></li>
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>If one agrees to pay someone in advance for writing something, how
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>does one insure that the quality will be good?
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A simple performance contract solves this problem. I have a copy that I
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can send people if they are interested. It is is the that learnlots used
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to send out.
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>Wouldn't it be better to give awards for the best documents?
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This is a neat idea but the idea of a document getting sponsored is better
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IMHO. That way a person can get continual funding to keep the document up
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to date. Of course, there are ways to do this with awards as well.
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>In this case the documents that get awards should not be biased in favor
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> of any one commercial
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>distribution (such as RedHat) and should not cover only one brand of
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>hardware or be primarily about commercial (non-free) software.
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I don't agree with this. We should be striving to have much more
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distribution specific information. We obviously can not cover ALL
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distributions but we can definately cover the medum players and the
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documentation the big players don't offer.
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>Such documents may have a strong commercial bias
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We are talking about technical manuals not marketing literature. Set up a
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review process. As long as the document contains the technical merits that
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warrant an award. Give the award. Of course, then we get in to the
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argument of guidelines for technical merit.
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If money is going to provided then there must be a review process.
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J
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not in keeping with the
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>ideals of LDP and may not merit the limited amount of awards
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