Mark - On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, MARK BAKER <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope to get my "Spherical Harmonics Orbitals with PDL", Into a book > so that people can work on the subatomic characteristics of atoms > hopefully with a Module coming soon, I think the best way to learn > PDL is to go threw known experiments and put them into simulation > in PDL this is something I'm still working on... > I think your ideas are great, but I hark from the great state of Missouri, known as the Show Me State. I don't think you'll get anyone volunteering to help with your Spherical Harmonics work until you have something at least partly working that is posted to github or CPAN. Show me a partial and working implementation, show me sketch of how you hope to extend your module's API, show me a skeleton of documentation, and show me a simple method for installing and using your module. Until you've done that, I don't think you'll get much help. It's a ton of work, but if you're not willing to put in the effort to get the project that far, others just won't join in. > please contact me if you would like to become a part of this project > this would be a revenue shearing project which means we can make > money off the book, depending of the effort put in by each person > > This is a book I wish I would have had working with PDL ... > if you have some science experiments in PDL let me know > you could make some money off this book with me .... > as I hope to cover more then just atoms and there orbitals ... > I disagree strongly with the revenue-oriented approach you're taking here. Would PDL be the awesome numerical package that it is if Karl and company had focused on revenue? Would Perl be the awesome programming language that it is? Of course not. This is not the Way of Perl. If we manage to get the PDL::Book into dead-tree format, if we sell it for money, and if we actually make a profit (three nontrivial ifs right there), then I believe that profit should go to the Perl Foundation or some other non-profit that makes sense for PDL to give money to. Anything else would introduce a major paperwork and tax headache that almost certainly would not be worth the extra effort, and it's against the spirit of the community. Just my two cents. David -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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