[ZDP] Re: Publishing Zope Book

OpenDocs, LLC. books@opendocs.org
Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:17:38 -0800 (PST)


> Several people worked on ZBook. Will they be paid for their work (if they
> need any)? Who'll get some money? Or do we give the money to the community?
> Which community? For what purpose?

This entirely open to discussion, what we did with our first book
Developing Applications for Linux: KDE Edition is to donate up to 40% of
the Gross Profits back to the KDevelop project.

> 
> I haven't looked yet for answers to these questions, because I never thought
> people were interested in the chapters of ZBook I wrote 1 year ago.
> 
> At the moment, I'm struggling with Zope myself. I'm trying to learn from
> small examples that I've in my mind. I'm writing them down aswell, so that
> perhaps in the future they can be used for a book of essential Zope. But
> that's still far away (I think).
> 
> What I would propose is that you'd reask your question on the zdp list:
> zdp@zope.org.
> 
> Let me know what you think of my questions, confusing, ... Am I talking
> rubbish?
> 
> Tom.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: OpenDocs, LLC. <books@opendocs.org>
> To: <tom.deprez@village.uunet.be>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:29 AM
> Subject: Publishing Zope Book
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I represent OpenDocs Publishing (http://www.opendocs.org/) we are an open
> > source publishing company and are seeking new materials to print. Recently
> > when we ran a questionaire about which books they would like to see many
> > people requested a zope book.
> >
> > With this, I would like to talk to some people about the possibility of
> > publishing the Zope Documentation Project works. This would be especially
> > interesting if we could get book quality documentation out of the project.
> >
> > Please understand that I am not saying that the documentation is not good,
> > what I am saying is that it is not book like. It is currently more HOWTO
> > like.
> >
> > Please let me know your thoughts,
> >
> > Joshua Drake
> >
> >
> >
>