On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:24:13 am Stef Kariotidis wrote: > Thank you all for your answers and the code, it sure is a good start to > look. > I also vote for a ready made UI component providing intelligence > features if is possible. > > About a Dabo book - cookbook, > Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com <http://www.packtpub.com/>), > is a publishing company that has published many books around open source > technologies, they also give some of their income from those books back > to the open source projects > (which means that Dabo could get some money back). > At their books the introduce a feature for their customers to suggest > books, more specifically/: > "If there is a book that you need and would like to see us publish, > please send > us a note in the SUGGEST A TITLE form on www. packtpub. com or e-mail > suggest@packtpub. com. "/, taken from a published book. > > Is there a chance anytime in future to see a published book about Dabo? > Please note that I am not > affiliated with the Packt Publishing, just happens to be one of their > customers who bought some books > and after seeing the /"suggest a book feature/" my first thought that > came in mind was Dabo since it is the only > Python framework for Rich Desktop Applications. IMHO it would be a great > opportunity to promote Dabo and fund > some of the project's needs. > > Kind regards, > Stef K.
It sounds great. But, there are only two guys really qualified to write the book and both are very busy. Of course there is an incentive - that of course is being a published author. In some circles that can be the difference between getting the job (new client?) and not. And then there is the issue of the size of the audience - the Dabo community is not very large compared to other open source projects. I would think packtpub would have to weight the investment vs the size of potential number of buyers. But I do know that a book on designing a framework - would be well received in higher educational courses. Living very close to a college I have had many discussions with instructors and such a book using a modern language would do well. Also how would the money be spent? That said, I do recall that O'Reilly Books had small 10-25 page papers that they published (e-books?). I bet a small 25 page article would help encourage others to review Dabo or "the trade offs of a framework". Side Note: I have noted that Hank Fay (VFP'er) has been blogging about Dabo. Johnf _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/201105101049.35775.jo...@jfcomputer.com
