Hi Massimo, I can fully understand your motivation and will keep a fan and supporter of your baby. A different point of view could potentially be to use community contribution to drive/update/test the web2py documentation (the bleeding edge version) and use the community-tested (stable version) in consolidated fashion for print publication. When I remember right then Stefan Wintermeyer from Germany is using this approach with his book http://www.amazon.de/Asterisk-1-4-1-6-Installation-Programmierung/dp/3827326990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237905177&sr=1-1 while the 'open unstable' community version can be found at http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de
Sorry that example is with German content only. But hey, doesn't RedHat support and use Fedora because of a similar reason. Yes I've to admit I'd love to see web2py scaling massively in adoption and I guess the community can and would love to help. Just my 2 cents on that. Cheers, Hans On Mar 24, 3:03 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > I have the copyright on the book but I also have an understanding that > I would not give it away for free or it will go out of print. Creators > of other framework make their living by consulting. I make my living > in the academic. A published book is necessary to justify the time I > spent/spend on web2py. I do not make much money from it so that is not > an issue. > > There has also been a lot of talk about the wiki, etc. I welcome this > and I welcome more community effort nevertheless, different people > want different things. If it takes more time for me to set-up and > maintain things, I could as well spend the time improving the book. > > I think one thing is the book (and I care about that for my > profession) and one think is the wiki (necessary to describe new > features and community involvement). I do not think they should be > merged. This is not final and I will give the issue some more thought. > > Massimo > > On Mar 23, 5:55 am, Baron <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I would stay away from this kind of posting. At worst, you are presuming > > > a > > > legal position on how to take copyrighted material without consequences. > > > Perhaps Massimo could step in to clarify his position to prevent > > speculation. So far I've read that he needs to publish for the > > university, but it is possible to publish and give away > > simultaneously, as the Django Book shows. > > > Clearly a lot of time was spent on the manual so it is understandable > > for a person to want to maintain ownership. However Massimo also spent > > a lot of time on web2py but still gave it away. > > > The wiki right now is still pretty empty and doesn't look like > > approaching the coverage of the manual for a long time. So, would it > > be possible to kick start the documentation effort by allowing the > > copying of text sections from the manual? > > > Baron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
