[Air-l] Communication research Methods

[elijah wright]

> I'd like to try an "open source" publishing experiment with this book,
> expanding it to include many more specialized topics, examples
> (hopefully, interactive), and teaching aids contributed by users. The
> model would be the one developed by open-source computing communities: a
> review board that accepts submissions from developers, verifies their
> utility and accuracy, and then makes them available to the user
> community.
>
> If anyone is interested in this experiment, please contact me off-list.


check out www.commontext.org; that's the most thoroughly organized group
that's pushing for textbook publication to adopt open-source or
open-content licensing.

i've 'pushed' the text of your message in the general direction of their
staff; they're good (friendly, smart) guys.

elijah