[ZDP] Re: Publishing Zope Book

Tom Deprez Tom Deprez" <tom.deprez@village.uunet.be
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:03:49 +0100


Hi,

So, what does OpenDocs proposes?  Do you have already the contents of the
book in your minds? What do you expect from ZBook?
And what do other people on the list think about it? I know, we've had this
discussion already some time ago, but another discussion can do no harm.

Tom.
----- Original Message -----
From: OpenDocs, LLC. <books@opendocs.org>
To: Tom Deprez <tom.deprez@village.uunet.be>
Cc: <zdp@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Publishing Zope Book


> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>