4.1. Jamie sets the example

Reviewers are highly in demand, yet we recently had the joy of welcoming a few. They mysteriously appeared out of nowhere to offer their much-needed services to our project. One of those new-comers is Jamie Patterson. Not that long ago, he found the TLDP web site, while looking for Linux documentation. He must have approved of our system, because he volunteered as a reviewer: "I wanted to help improve and build on the foundation blocks of the ever-expanding Linux Community."

Jamie reviews for content suitability, checks grammar and spelling and, probably the most important thing: ease of reading. Tabatha, our head-reviewer, thinks he's one of the most faithful reviewers she works with. However devoted, Jamie can make his voice heard. As his colleagues say, in an appreciative tone of voice: "He's a little outspoken in his comments."

Jamie joined the project only recently, but is already training other reviewers. Jamie is thirteen years old. We're told he does a good job.

We also want to welcome the rest of the flock, among others:

• Jennifer Riley, with a master's degree in both English and by experience in programming in all kinds of languages, does language review but hopes to start on technical reviewing soon.
• Emma Jane Hogbin admits that spelling is not her cup of tea, so she does technical reviews. She is also the ACPI HOWTO.
• Doris Cross is getting her own business off the ground, and says that technical editing for TLDP is an asset because it keeps her skills up to date.

5.1. Licensing

As David Lawyer states, the current LDP license contains a loophole.

Therefor, Rick Moen wrote a proposal for a new license which is now being discussed. Rick did quite some research on the subject of licensing.

5.2. Documenting non-free software?

The sponsorship thread started last week evolved into a discussion about whether is right to document non-free software, even if it runs on Linux. However, it was generally agreed that we would have to drop a lot of documents if we were going to be that fierce about the subject.