[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: Lisa Rein <lisarein@finetuning.com>
- To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:45:03 -0700
speak for yourself!
Technically-accurate coverage takes twice as long and pays half!
Plus the spec editors get a free copy edit, while we're at it....
Maybe the W3C should pay us! :-)
lisa
Frank Boumphrey wrote:
>
> Actually most writers wouldnt mind paying the $500 out of their own pocket
> just to relieve the wear and tear on their stomach lining!!
>
> Frank
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@eng.Sun.COM>
> To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
> Date: Saturday, April 25, 1998 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Open Standards Processes
>
> >[Tim Bray:]
> >
> >[... good stuff that I completely agree with ...]
> >
> >| 4. A couple of people made the excellent point that it's tough to
> >| produce a book on one of these specs in a timely and accurate fashion
> >| if you're not inside the process. It seems to me that it would be of
> >| huge benefit for the W3C if such books were easier to produce. It
> >| might make all sorts of sense for the W3C to have "writers'
> >| memberships" - non-speaking access to the materials of one activity or
> >| another. Such memberships wouldn't be free, a cost of perhaps $500 or
> >| so would bring it well within the bounds of a book-publishing budget
> >| while discouraging frivolity.
> >
> >I think that's a really excellent suggestion. And the cost should
> >come out of the publisher, up front.
> >
> >Jon
> >
> >
> >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
> >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
> >(un)subscribe xml-dev
> >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following
> message;
> >subscribe xml-dev-digest
> >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
> >
> >
>
> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
> To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
> (un)subscribe xml-dev
> To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
> subscribe xml-dev-digest
> List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
