Open-source style guide

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 01:37, Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Hi guys,
>
> A little over a year ago, the docs project discussed collaborating with
> other open-source documentation projects on a shared style guide.[0] I
> started work on preparing some internal Red Hat style advice for release,
> and have only just finished that. You can see it in all its unfinished glory
> on my fedorapeople page.[1] It's all extremely rough and is basically a
> compilation of odds and ends drawn from various internal wiki pages.
> Although Red Hat and Fedora use CC-BY-SA, many other documentation projects
> use GFDL or various BSD-style licenses. To make the resource reusable by as
> many projects as possible, I've obtained permission from Red Hat legal to
> release this material under simply CC-BY, without the SA requirement.
>
> The Fedora Project has its own store of style advice.[2] If we could
> relicense these pages under the same CC-BY license, I could merge this
> material with that opened by by Red Hat. I guess this would require a
> decision by the Fedora Board to invoke the same clause of the CLA that
> allowed us to relicense all the documentation from OPL to CC-BY-SA last
> year, or ???
>
> Any ideas or advice as to how to approach this would be greatly appreciated
> (including advice to tell me that it would be impossible or impractical).
>
> Note that the upstream project seems to have stalled not long after we
> discussed this, but I hope that with some actual content to offer as a
> starting point, I can either reanimate that project, or form a similar new
> project. I could use just the Red Hat material for that, but I would much
> rather be able to incorporate input from Fedora as well!
>
> Cheers
> Rudi
>
>
> [0] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/docs/2009-June/010601.html
> [1] http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/ossg/
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/StyleGuide
>
>

Rudi,
If we can find out who touched the existing style guide we can just
ask their permission to re-license CC-BY.

Thanks for spearheading this project!  I'll take a look at your work
here shortly.  Even if the larger project has stalled we can at least
make this available to the masses to help other projects.  All we need
to do is let them know that it exists.

--Eric