Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:26 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
Leif Madsen wrote:
Quote:
PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:58, Leif Madsen wrote:
Quote:
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony is now freely available, for
download in PDF form, from the Asterisk Documentation Project website
located at http://www.asteriskdocs.org.
Congratulations on the release of this book. It certainly is a great body of
work.
I would like to ask whether the authors and O'Reilly Media would ever release
under a less restrictive license perhaps
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ? Of course I would like cc-by-sa
2.5, but that may be pushing it :-)
If the above is a possability, it would enable the source of the book to be
made available for contribution in the Asterisk docs repository.
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
I don't deserve any thanks Jared Jim and Leif did all the hard work. All I
did was mirror the zip file
to help more people be able to download it. Just as Jeremy did as well as
well as a few other people
did as well on the -users list.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
Leif Madsen wrote:
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In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
Wow thanks. I really like Chapter 7. Very geeky stuff. I love it!
Appendices A & B appear to missing or is it just me? Also no table of
contents or index?
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:21 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
Victor Rini skrev:
Quote:
Leif Madsen wrote:
> In the true spirit of Open Source, the authors and O'Reilly Media have
> published the book under the open, Creative Commons license, allowing
> the book in its entirity to be freely distributed.
>
Wow thanks. I really like Chapter 7. Very geeky stuff. I love it!
Appendices A & B appear to missing or is it just me? Also no table of
contents or index?
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:25 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
Leif Madsen wrote:
Quote:
Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
A million thanks for this incredible effort you have now brought to
fruition! I am proud to have made a small contribution to it, not to
mention endless re-readings.
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
On 10/15/05, Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@elmit.com> wrote:
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Does it has a copyright? May it distributed via Internet that way?
Asterisk is still under development. Which Asterisk version is it good for?
Yes, the copyright lies with O'Reilly Media.
It may be distributed onthe Internet, as long as you follow the terms
from the license. Here is a summary of the license we chose to release
the book under:
* to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by
the author or licensor.
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
* For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
license terms of this work.
* Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from
the copyright holder.
Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
Let me explain the reasons briefly the Noncommercial and No Derivitive
Works portions. The reason for the restrictions for the Noncommercial
is obviously because we don't want people distributing the book along
with a product they are selling/creating and saying they have included
documentation. And of course because O'Reilly wants to sell books (and
so do the authors of course so that we may continue to create
documentation -- although this is a lesser fact for us, we are
certainly not getting rich from this, it was a labour of love and for
the community).
The No Derivitive Works forbids the changing of the document and
distributing it, which includes translations. This is because O'Reilly
would like to have the first opportunity at having the works
translated for distribution to their various centre's and such, which
we felt was a fair request.
Yes, Asterisk is constantly under development; its a moving target.
However, since the new upcoming version 1.2.x of Asterisk is such a
strong improvement over the 1.0.x series of book, then we decided it
was in the best interest of everyone (for O'Reilly in terms of sales,
for the community so they have solid documentation for the newest
upcoming version, and for us so we wouldn't get flamed :))
Since 1.2 has not yet been released, there may be some slight
differences, however, most should be minimal as many of the major
functionalities have already been addressed while we were writing the
book (we worked very closely with the developers in the community to
be sure that we were as accurate as possible). Many of the changes
that are currently going into the tree involve stabalizing and
streamlining the code.
So to answer your question, the book is written for the current CVS
HEAD and upcoming 1.2.x. version of Asterisk.
Since seeing the release of this book, I've (Matt Riddell) been reading it
pretty much non stop. My impression thus far has been that they have done an
absolutely amazing job. They have done the Asterisk community proud, and I
feel this will go a long way to greatly increase the coverage which Asterisk
experiences today.
It is well written, accurate and compelling. I for one will be supporting
their excellent work by buying a hardcopy and recommend that all new
technicians in the Asterisk community make sure they have read this book
before anything else. With a free copy being released on the Internet, you
have absolutely no excuse now.
While I would love to say that I think that this book will reduce the amount
of traffic on the mailing lists, I think because of the increased popularity,
it may have the opposite effect.
My sincere complements and congratulations to Leif Madsen, Jared Smith and Jim
Van Meggelen for their amazing work!
--
Cheers,
Matt Riddell
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:38 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:58, Leif Madsen wrote:
Quote:
Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen of the Asterisk
Documentation Project, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media are pleased
to announce the official release of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
on Friday, October 14, 2005 at AstriCon 2005 in Anaheim, CA.
[...]
PS: If the Asterisk Documentation Project website becomes slow due to
the number of people accessing it at once, we appoligize and
appreciate your patience. For those of you who are able to obtain the
full copy, please consider helping us out by creating mirrors and
torrents and posting them to the list by replying to this thread.
Thanks!
Good job! But...
Where are appendices A & B?
--
Francesco Lattanzio <f.lattanzio@mediatechnologies.it>
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: [Asterisk-doc] You ASKED for an Asterisk book, you GOT an As
Guys, Guys, Guys (Jared Smith, Jim van Meggelen, and Leif Madsen):
Congratulations on providing this book; a well needed effort. Other than
the first two chapters that I have read so far, I have enjoyed reading
the preface. I wait eagerly for each evening to read the rest.
I see emails flying by regarding Appendices "A", "B" and may be "C". In
one of the emails by the authors' they have acknowledged it and perhaps
will be putting it out for our "reads."
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