[Zope3-dev] Publishing the Zope 3 Developers Cookbook

[Stephan Richter]

Hello everyone,

last month I met Shelley Johnston, Acquisitions Editor for Sams Publishing, at 
OSCOM 3. Since she was really interested in a Zope 3 book, I wrote up a 
complete proposal, which passed the Editorial Board last week, which means 
that I will sign the contract later this week. Jim and Steve will be the 
official technical editors to ensure the correctness of the content.

Furthermore, like the first Zope book, this book will also be licensed under a 
free content license, specifically the Creative Commons Attribution License 
1.0. (Note that I chose this license since opencontent.org shut down today.)

I still want to encourage community contributions and will therefore leave all 
of the book's content in the Zope Wiki, so that people can easily contribute 
to it. Everyone will be credited in the typical Open Source fashion in the 
online version as well as in the paper copy!

The time schedule of the book is still a little bit shaky, but should take 
form in the next days. One option would be to deliver the complete manuscript 
on January 9th, 2004, so that the book would be on the shelves in late March, 
just in time for the Zope 3.0 release. 

If you have questions or concerns about this, please feel free to send me an 
E-mail.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training