On 06/02/2015, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > You know just having an IDE is not enough, it would be great if we > could get someone to write a a book or something on gnome development > that we can sell and use the proceeds to fund GNOME.
It would be great, but writing a good book takes a lot of time and effort so I would find it surprising if someone was to write one and donate the rights to GNOME. If it happens, great, but it doesn't seem likely. Another approach would be to organise something along the lines of a book sprint. These basically work a bit like a very targeted, short hackfests. The first day is spent planning out the index, splitting it into short chapters and letting the attendees pick what they're working on. The second day is writing (usually 1-2 chapters per person) and the third day is for reviewing. By the fourth day, we had a short, published book in our hands. This did inspire a similar approach from the documentation team towards some of the devel docs in the last year which were written as relatively self-contained guides with examples and could be taken for a book quite easily. The key to organising something like this is to get the leading developers into one room. The other issue to consider if that our toolkit and even application design change quite quickly so the book would become outdated fast. One way around this is to use an on-demand printing service so that we don't have to hold books in stock. > sri > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list