Open Standards Processes

[Lisa Rein]

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 at eng.Sun.COM>
> To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at 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
> >
> >
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