Re: THANKS! Re: Software engineer tech. writers? Do they exist?

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I've included Deb Richardson, who is listed as the owner of the page
you found, in this conversation. What would we need to do to get this
group up and working again? I've got web space, and some knowhow, and
it's a good idea (the chant of the hopeless idealist).

--- Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com> wrote:

> On 2007.09.04, David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I could have sworn someone on the list several years ago suggested
> > creating such a repository, but I don't believe I've heard anything
> > about it in the meantime. (If there *is* such a resource, please do
> > tell me about it!)
> 
> Apparently, there was a (now defunct) "Open Source Writers Group" at
> oswg.org, but that domain now appears to be owned by a domain
> squatter.
> It looks like there's content about the group here:
> 
>     http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/
> 
> It looked like a really promising start (back in 2000) that
> apparently
> died.  What a shame ... :-(
> 
> -- Dossy
> 
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