Re: debian book offer -- ideas? authors?
This would be a Good Thing (tm). Debian-doc has livened up again over the
past few months, and it seems like several people are writing now. I've
cc:'ed debian-doc, Oliver (who's coordinating most of the work) and Dale, as
he's already written a Debian book. Plus, with a publisher interested, they
might be able to put a paid person on coordinating the effort, and that
would be invaluable to the documentation effort IMO.
Nils.
In message <oar9u6v0aa.fsf@burrito.fake>, Adam Di Carlo writes:
>
>IDG, a publishing house who have authored the famous "<foo> for
>Dummies" line of books, among others, have approached me about writing
>a Debian-related book for them. I don't know where they got my name;
>perhaps from the Developer's Reference.
>
>To be honest, I'm rather at a loss, hence this email. On the one
>hand, I think Debian really needs more shelf presence. The fact that
>there are so few books about Debian out there (Hi, Dale) itself is
>almost a reason not to go with it. OTOH, writing large amounts of
>technical documentation seems like more than I'm going to be able to
>handle (in addition to my real work--around 50-60 hrs/wk--and my
>Debian work).
>
>Moreover, I'm not sure what the topic should be. My contact at IDG
>has stated its generally better if the author(s) decide upon the
>topic. She's amenable to one directed towards users, developers, or
>whatever.
>
>I voiced to her my feeling that Debian documentation needs to be free
>and to be re-integrated back into Debian itself; my contact at IDG
>seemed amenable to that, although, obviously, nothing has gone thru
>the legal dept. yet.
>
>One possibility would be to collect a lot of the stuff we already
>have--pending the assent of the authors of course. We might be able
>to get some cash for the authors who have done work so far. Obviously
>a loto f work would be required to integrate stuff together.
>
>Nor do I know anything about compensation -- people familiar with the
>industry know what to expect; I suppose it's decent but not
>specatular. You'd have to expect that a Debian book isn't exactly
>going to hit the bestseller list.
>
>Anyhow who has topic ideas, please feel free to reply to me and/or the
>list. Anyone who is interested in either writing or contributing,
>ditto.
>
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