[OSGeo-Edu] Getting Started on the Free GIS Book...

[Landon Blake]

O.K.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:51 PM
To: discuss at edu.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Getting Started on the Free GIS Book...

The wiki could be fine for a start, but I think we'll need something  
more structured as things progress.  The OSGeo CMS/drupal web site  
will be ready for this in the new year, but until then I think we  
should just make do with whatever you want.

My opinion anyway,
Tyler

On 20-Dec-06, at 12:41 PM, Landon Blake wrote:

> This may be a really dumb question...
>
> Can't we just have a main table of contents for the book that links to
> the other chapters? This could be done in the wiki.
>
> Landon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:38 PM
> To: discuss at edu.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Getting Started on the Free GIS Book...
>
> Dear all,
>
> On 12/20/06, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de> wrote:
> ..
>> I also have a few questions. How do we organize the pages so that
>> evenatually they will result in a "book". I have heard of an  
>> extension
>> "wikibooks" which sounds like what we need. Until we have found out
> how to
>> use that we might just add a [[Category:Free GIS Book]] to each page
>> giving us an index:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Free_GIS_Book
>
> I darkly remember that we wanted to use Drupal for that:
>
>   http://community.osgeo.org/en/edu/booktest
> which is using
>   http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/book
>
> I don't think that  the Wiki is a good place.
>
> Markus
>
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