John R. Sheets <jsheets@users.sourceforge.net>
The chapters are currently online here, at http://openbooks.sourceforge.net/books/wga/ and the GNOME Developer's site.
Coming Soon:
Metadoc - An XML system for writing fiction and
screenplays, including story content, plot management, and
character development. Initial support will include DTDs and
XSLT stylesheets. Later releases will feature GUI
applications for manipulating your data, as well as other
content types like technical documentation (as a shorthand
format which can be easily transformed into DocBook, but
which works around some shortcomings with DocBook, such as
better support for external source code inclusion), poetry,
and whatever else people want. Metadoc can be found in the
Openbooks CVS Repository. Stay tuned!
If you're not a writer, but would like to help out with marking up existing works with DocBook, join the gang! While OpenBooks is still very young and doesn't have many books (err, well, just one at the moment), the intent is to gather a wide variety. OpenBooks is primarily concerned with high quality book-length documentation, so if you know of any potential projects, let us know!
Finally, I'm not much of a web designer, so I'd really appreciate someone willing to spruce up the OpenBooks site. I'm not sure yet what I want to do with the site, other than posting books in HTML format, but I'm wide open to suggestions. I'd like OpenBooks to be a point of contact between publishers and OpenContent writers, so anything that encourages that will be embraced with enthusiasm.
Thanks!
--John