We can sell a few thousand copies of a printed manual, but having a manual translated into 12 languages and shipped as the first boot instruction on an XO means an awful lot more to me. Are we planning on documenting Sugar internals, individual activities, and how to code for the XO?  I'm not against the idea, but a statement of purpose ought to be defined for any event. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <<a href="mailto:gdk@redhat.com">gdk@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I can participate if it is in the second-half of August... I have lots more material from when I made the "getting started" guide sitting on the "cutting room floor". </blockquote> </div> I think it's worth considering making this and pitching it to O'Reilly. In the same format as Karl Fogel's "Producing Open Source Software" and other works: available for sale, but freely licensed. The creation of a physical artifact that can be purchased in stores is "a big deal" and would go a long way towards establishing credibility and permanence.  "Holy crap, Sugar must be for real -- they're selling the book in Barnes and Noble!  With a Live CD!" "Make no small plans."  Daniel Burnham.  :) --g </blockquote></div>