Dear Fred, Guido, and the rest of the Python Documentation Team, I am part of a small group of developers that distributes the ThoutReader™, an open source documentation platform that allows developers to browse, search, bookmark, and append their open source documentation as well as favorite reference books, at the same time, in one format, even off line. The ThoutReader™ is a cross-platform application written in Java, licensed under GPL 2.0, and hosted on SourceForge. A large international web hosting company asked us to parse the Python Documentation into the ThoutReader™ format which they feel would be a huge benefit for their client sites. So far we have parsed into the ThoutReader™ format PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, BSD, and now Python. I would like to share with you the work that we have done and ensure it meets your approval before we post or distribute it on our website www.osoft.com. I believe we have included all of the required copyright, author, and license requirements but I seek your approval before proceeding. I posted the file www.osoft.com/python/Python-Documentation-2.4.jar to our server for you to download and review. The link to the latest version of the ThoutReader™ (required to read the file) is http://www.osoft.com or direct from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=101817&package_id=1258 90. The benefit of the ThoutReader™ is that it standardizes all of a developer’s documentation needs. Documentation comes in different formats and different locations, making information hard to find when, where and how you need it: this means a lot of inconvenience and frustration by developers. Not only could a developer search the Python documentation, but they could also search related books like “Dive into Python” by Mark Pilgrim or other such titles at the same time. Best of all, all of this is done offline! Our goal (with your approval) is to be listed as an alternative documentation source at http://docs.python.org/download.html. Whatever documentation is free, we provide for free. Authors may also contribute commercial content to be distributed via the ThoutReader™. Authors retain ALL of their IP rights and set the selling price. OSoft does not make any money to support our project until the author makes money first. We believe that it is not fair for an author to write a reference book that sells for $49.00 and only make $1-2 per book royalty. I look forward to hearing back from you before I proceed. Thanks for giving us this opportunity. We are still tweaking our parsed content but it is certainly useable right now. Mark Mark D. Carey President OSoft, Inc. 253-284-0475 mcarey@osoft.com 2511 South Hood Street Tacoma, WA  98402