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[Jim Connett <jimandmarcy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great! Thank you for the clarity.

--sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III phone
On Aug 24, 2013 8:01 PM, "Thomas Corwin" <dog1489@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey Thomas, thanks for the email and for checking out the minutes from
> today's meeting.
>
> I was planning on attending, but I had a surprise visit from some family,
> and was unable to attend.
>
> The confusion may have occurred on both sides of your communication. My
> understanding from your email to me was that you wanted me "to take over
> the section where you had your name". Upon receipt of this request, I
> removed your name from the list and put my name in. I inferred from your
> request that you wouldn't be able to help out in authoring, and therefore,
> I communicated with the leads (as well as in the meeting today) about your
> "departure". If this was an incorrect inference on my part, I profusely
> apologize and wish to remedy the misunderstanding as soon as possible.
>
> I should've been more specific with the request I made. There is no reason
> to apologize. I would like to keep the Wine section, but I am unable to
> complete the work I have originally signed up for, and I am very sorry for
> that.
>
> I so much appreciate your passion and desire to publish information about
> Wine--IMO, being able to run certain Windows applications on Linux is a
> critical barrier to many making the transition to Linux generally, and
> Ubuntu specfically.
>
> That is the main reason I requested the addition of Wine in the manual
> during the 13.04 release. I figured it would be good to know that there are
> "workarounds" to transition from the ever popular Windows OS, to Linux.
>
> However, I'm not sure how an intense focus on Wine fits within the
> confines of a manual with an audience of new users--or if it even WAS your
> intention to supersize the Wine section within the manual?
>
> I did at one point in time wish to "supersize" the Wine section of the
> manual, but I then thought about all of the information that I could put
> into it. I later decided that the little section on Wine would suffice in a
> manual specifically to new users of Ubuntu.
>
> Was it your desire to publish a completely separate "manual" specific to
> Wine? Or did you want to expand the small Wine section in the current
> manual?
>
> After some debate on extending the Wine section, I decided to create a
> whole new project named Wine on Ubuntu. This will be a manual specifically
> aimed on Wine usage using the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The little section
> on Wine will stay the little section in the UM.
>
> And how can the UMP team help you accomplish this goal?
>
>
> Anyone is welcome to help in any way. Authors, Editors, Designers,
> Testers. That's basically all that is needed for the time being, not
> counting setting up the TeX files and such for the manual (which I asked
> Kevin to help with once this version of the UM is released)
>
> If you can provide us some clarity, that would be helpful. You are, of
> course, always welcome to author, or to step away for a time, or focus on
> LTS releases only...whatever fits your schedule, we can always use the help!
>
> I will still work with the manual for every release, however, I will only
> be doing the Wine section of the Advanced Topics chapter. Having said that,
> I will have my name as an author for that chapter, but that chapter will
> still need a main author: one who will work on the rest of the section.
>
> If you, or anyone else for that matter, have any questions, comments, or
> are willing to help, please email the list. I hope that was enough clarity
> Jim! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Corwin
>
> On Aug 24, 2013, at 9:29 PM, "Jim Connett" <jimandmarcy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks!
> --Jim
> Hello!
>
> Schlopo (I'm not sure who that is...) is supposed to confirm the contents
> of the Wine section with my *departure.*
> *
> *
> I'm not sure why I'm "departing"? Haha. Probably a misunderstanding on my
> part. Could someone help me understand? :)
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Corwin
>
> On Aug 24, 2013, at 5:17 PM, "Jim Connett" <jimandmarcy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Please visit http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual/Meetings<http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-manual/2013/ubuntu-manual.2013-08-24-19.07.moin.txt> to
> access the transcript and summary information from today's Author's meeting.
>
> Thanks.
> -Jim
>
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