On Wed, Apr 9, 2014, at 6:05, Kevin Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2014 02:25:18 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > Hello folks, I know that August is months away, but if you want your > > Frameworks book, now is the time to step forward. > > > > Here are some things to think about: > > > > Most of this book is already written somewhere. When the words have > > already been written down, all we need do is gather and arrange them. > > When you think of such an email, dot story, blog post or have eloquent > > thoughts in your head, please make a note. > > > > If you are on this list, you are an expert. You know what the > > Frameworks will do for KDE, and you know what they *can* do for > > others. Our book will present that case. A good book will help grow > > the Frameworks team; I'm sure of it. And a good book will make your > > work more widely used. Oh, and you'll be a published author! > > > > While in Randa, none of us will be writing full-time. In fact, I hope > > that *all* of the Frameworks people will stop by the writing room, or > > log into Booki and review, add, re-arrange, correct, or make the text > > more graceful. > > > > To make this work a few people must volunteer to take on the writing > > of the book as their most important task at Randa. It will be mine, > > and our goal is to have a book by the end of the week. We've done it > > before, and I know we can do it again. This is a valuable work. > > > > We need to know the core members of this team, soon. Please step > > forward, and also add yourself to the Spints page for planning and > > funding. > > > > Valorie > > Hey, > > I'm wondering if we should rather try spending the time in making our KF5 > apidocs shine. You could spend plenty of time on writing introductory > parts > for the individual modules, writing tutorials and examples, and make sure > they're easy to reach and grasp for newcomers on apidocs.kde.org. This is > an > integral part for the docs on qt-project.org, too. Just have a look at > the > first hit for "qt docs": [1]
I agree with this. I think api docs have a higher chance of remaining relevant than a book. Aurélien _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
