Talk:Technical Book Development

Structure of the Book
A number of ways of organising this material are possible:
 * ad-hoc question and answer discussion
 * topics in time, addressing the tasks which make up the flow of development from initiation through writing editing publishing and .. pulping.
 * topics by type of artefact - proposal, contract, book, supporting web-side, pod-cast and the means, both social and technical for their development

Ground rules

 * don't use the discussion pages -its all discussion - discussion pages don't come up in the list of recent changes so contributions there tend to get missed


 * use 4 tildes to sign a contribution if it expressed as a personal opinion.

Initial Structure
All designs go through a phase of divergence, in which ideas, possibilities and problems spring to mind, and convergence , when ideas must be filtered, sorted , structured , decisions made.

A collaborative wikibook might be expected to go through the same sequence, so initially the book will be structured with questions and ensuing discussion, later to be re-shaped into a more coherent set of patterns as they emerge