Obviously its good to be circumspect at such an earlier stage, but I can imagine a few "good" editors who publishing a book would really lend some legitimacy and exposure to Pharo. That would be overall beneficial even if the book is not free.
Stef, I am interested to know more. cheers -ben On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 17:01, Thomas Dupriez <tdupr...@ens-paris-saclay.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The timing of this mail is interesting, because just yesterday I stumbled > on the "Free Software Needs Free Documentation" preface of the GDB > documentation. > > It's a dozen paragraph so not exactly a short read, but the gist of it is > that the author urges other authors to use free documentation licenses for > the documentations/manuals they are writing, so that they can be modified > and grown by the community along with the free software they talk about. > > I've attached the full version if some people are interested in reading it. > > Sorry for this tangent, Stéphane. The timing was just too perfect. :) > > Thomas > On 01/03/2019 08:09, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > Hi guys > > We have been contacted by a (good) editor that would like to publish on > Beginning Pharo or related. > I have a lot of material that I can give but no energy to write such book > :) > > If one of you in interested, let me know. I could even be a co-author. > > Stef > > > -------------------------------------------- > Stéphane Ducasse > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr > http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org > 03 59 35 87 52 > Assistant: Julie Jonas > FAX 03 59 57 78 50 > TEL 03 59 35 86 16 > S. Ducasse - Inria > 40, avenue Halley, > Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza > Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 > France > >
