Torsten Curdt wrote:
- what would be the most interesting site/magazine to get this
series published? I intend to get them up on our documentation site
as well, just have to figure out what the most effective publishing
schedule is.
I think O'Reillynet/xml.com is a good place. O'Reilly has wanted a
book on cocoon forever, which I started and dumped, then Steven
restarted and dumped (or held), so it didn't happen.
Not sure there is enough traction for an entire column on cocoon, but
we might well ask, a lot of people in O'Reilly have good respect for
Cocoon.
Actually I had this idea a while ago. The Cocoon bible. Written by
the people who wrote it. Having a couple more authors to split the
huge task.
We could even make it an Open Source book. Available as a pdf or
in print for the ones who want to hold something in there hands.
I would love that...
As said, I also think that writing a book is a huge task. I'm sure
Carsten and Matthew can give great insight in this. ;-) Hell, my own
thesis is proceeding with only a few lines a day, so I know.
Let's not jump into illusions. As much as I cannot tell the lot of you
to "rewrite Cocoon and divide the work among the most active
committers", it's impossible to do the same for the documentation.
What we CAN try, is what Steven already suggested: get the documentation
into a coherent and complete state and use that as a book. This will be
a slow and gradual process.
For now I want short articles that can appear in magazines, and of
course they end up on our website.
