Why go through all this effort to just replicate what's already available in the PDF, to an html format?
What a website can give, and a book can't, is tutorials, short tips, FAQs, discussions etc. Something the wiki could provide if it were open to public editing (or the newly created http://webtopy.org/community/ if it gets comunity support). An online version of the book is, to me, just a bad idea: it won't give any extra benefit in relation to the pdf and it will negatively affect the book sales (which might be important). Just my 2 cent. Best Regards, Tiago ------ On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:39 PM, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 8:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > Denes is right. > > Hi Massimo, > Well, more specifically then: > > 1. Do you agree that it's a good idea to use the current book to make > an online book? If not, let's forget it. > > 2. Do you have an opinion on what form the online book should take? > e.g. Djanjo, Cakephp, Php.net manual with comments... > > 3. Income. Will the online book project negatively affects the income > from the book. To make sure that this does not lead to a problem, I > propose that you make a suggestion as to how this may be compensated. > I suggest alternatives might include adsense, a subscription model, > and donations, etc for access to all the update notes. Of course, > even If the online book became the main place for the documentation to > be updated, you could still sell the paper version. This would be > something for you to decide / accept. > > 4. What format should we use for the text? (Markdown, please?) > > 5 .It is important for the domain to belong to Web2py/Massimo. May I > suggest book.web2py.com? > > 6. No one will take the online book project seriously unless we also > think about the roles we would need to fill. There are people in this > community with much greater project expertise than I, so please feel > free to dismiss the following. I am only making suggestions. e.g. > - Model Designer. It is crucial that the data is saved in the most > logical way for the future. This shouldn't be trusted to someone like > me! I vote for you (Massimo), if you have time. Part of my > reasoning is that you know how to design a workable versioning > system :-) > - Project Manager. Allocate tasks (and fire people!), supervise, > coordinate timeline. > - Programmers for controllers and views. Maybe split this into two: > Admin and Enduser. > - Html, CSS and JQuery effects (optional extra, can come later) > - Data Loaders to copy and paste the sections of the book. I think > I'd be good at this one, if the project manager would have me! > > Sorry to ask/make these specific questions/suggestions, but without > your support (Massimo), let's be realistic, a community effort to > produce and support the online book project probably isn't going to > happen. > > Thanks for listening. > --D > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@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.
